Fashion in society & minds by the Boulevardiers
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Hedi Slimane finally crashed the legacy of Yves Saint Laurent after carefully burning down the archives with respect last season. And along with that, he succeded in two manners: one having us editors start our papers with...
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
French luxury and fashion behemoth LVMH delivers another reimpression of Danny Boyle’s imaginarium in this short movie for Louis Vuitton called L’Invitation au Voyage: the clue is obvious, dark hallways, furtive looks of humans taunting each other’s...
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
We can’t really afford them (yet!), but we Boulevardiers are really fond of our national treasures of savoir-faire. Among those, trunk maker Goyard in Paris. This new short movie shoes glimpses of glamour and a handful of...
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Spotted this week by a friend at Chanel, this new 1 minute video by DIOR has stunned me at every replay since. All I had told myself and others about the perfect art direction of Danny Boyle’s...
Saturday, October 13th, 2012
Seth Godin, marketing living legend, wrote a very interesting thought this week: There are two kinds of users/creators/customers/pundits. Some can’t understand why a product or service doesn’t catch on. They can prove that it’s better. They can...
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Laurène Bordes and Emilie Aubry, the 2 designers who founded SEPT, represent this new generation of French talents, spreading a new idea of fashion. Ethics, pervasive inspiration, travels: a nice mix for beautiful accessories. “Inspired by the...
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
While commentators and editors here and there remain skeptical after the parisian show (watch the feud between Cathy Horyn and Hedi Slimane), we went after any reason to foresee a bright future for (Yves) Saint Laurent (Paris)....
Friday, September 14th, 2012
Since its inception more than 160 years ago, the great house of Cartier has been creating exquisite objects of wearable art. Continuing this grand tradition are the superlative timepieces from the Cartier d’Art Collection—a series of unique watches that...