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If you’re looking for the best magazine store in Paris, you’ve come to the right post. Paris has great magazine stores, though they often serve a very specific client: the client who’s not going to blink too hard at a Finnish design magazine that only comes out once every three....

You probably already have your Sephora sale t0-buy list — these are mine. Honestly I think it makes a lot of cultural sense that of the three categories, there’s more skincare than anything else here. As Violette Serratt (that Violette) told Vogue, “Generally, we don’t use makeup to disguise or....

Sezane dupes: Sometimes you just don’t want to spend $980 on a coat, you know? (Unless you do! Like this one! But often you don’t!) Full disclosure: I don’t usually shop dupes, for a few reasons: Sometimes you just want the thing, and there’s no substitute for it, and your....

Sezane Black Friday: It doesn’t exist. We’ll see if things change for 2025 — but as of 2024, the brand did nothing. I did get an email from Sézane one morning right before Thanksgiving, but it had nothing to do with Black Friday — rather, it teed up the December....

Quick answer: Yes. Read on to see by how much.....

I remember, extremely clearly so I cannot gaslight myself on this, going to Franglish and being told that there was no easier way to spot a Russian tourist in Paris than leopard print. And yet. And yet! Leopard print is all over the city this season, to the extent that....

The new collection d’hiver from Sézane came out this morning, and these are my very coat-heavy selections. Disappointed in: the dresses and blouses (only one of which, from the two categories, is below) — but the coats! The coats. Divine. 1. Armando coat in rust blue check I literally stopped....

Ba&sh is a great French brand, even if it’s annoying to type and too expensive. I do have a solid fix for the second issue, even if there’s no addressing the first: Ba&sh Second/e Main, used Ba&sh pieces that have been authenticated, thoroughly cleaned and repaired, and re-presented for sale....

My Vabali spa review: I loved it! Here’s an extremely detailed trip report. Every traveler has their thing: I have an ex-boyfriend who loved aquariums so much that the first time I visited one without him, on a press trip to Curacao, I literally cried as a visibly dismayed representative....

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