

Riviera charm – “La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel”
Dear readers, decades ago when I was studying French in an evening school after work, it was an exhausting experience, yet, I vividly remember one class that left me uplifted and energized, my French teacher shared a hilarious anecdote about the vacation habits of the French from the north: how they would travel to the south of France, disrupt the locals and environment, return home, and then complain about how undesirable the south and its people were. While the class laugh


A stylish conversation with Stefan Dobrescu — Style Consultant and Founder of "The Gentlemen's Order"
Dear readers, with the arrival of a new season, it’s the perfect time to refresh your wardrobe with some key pre-Fall or Fall pieces. ...


Haute couture legacy revisited – "Worth: Inventing Haute Couture" Exhibition, Paris
Dear readers, this time of year always reminds me of Paris, where every summer brings a style, or fashion-related exhibition that...


Nina Ricci – the fashion designer, the book, and her perfume
Dear readers, if you are into French fashion and history, whenever you visit Paris, Palais Galliera should be the museum that you should...


Oscar de la Renta – the fashion designer, the book, and his perfume
Dear readers, there are a couple of global events that drew people’s attention earlier this year, and one of them, needlessly to say, is...


Connect with the French fashion legend - Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Paris
Dear readers, did anyone of you watch the TV show “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld”? I first noticed the show because of the German-Spanish...


Splendor revisit – ‘House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth’ exhibition, Derbyshire
For some reason I am very fond of Matthew Crawley from ‘Downton Abbey’, the polished and dashing gentleman with his impeccable and...

















