The Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is located 330 yards from the Opéra Garnier and Opera Metro Station. It offers 4-star accommodations with 2 restaurants, a bar and a health club. Each Second-Empire-style room at Le Grand is equipped with satellite and cable TV and internet access. Some rooms also have a view of the Opera. [...]

Paris may be known as the most romantic city in the world, but it’s also the most expensive place to buy a club sandwich — making it the priciest travel destination on the globe. That’s the conclusion of online accommodation booking site Hotels.com which surveyed 750 hotels in three to five star categories across 26 [...]

The House of Dior has unveiled ‘Secret Garden – Versailles’, the new film starring Dior in the Château de Versailles. A film by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, starring Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju in ‘La Galeries Des Glaces – Château de Versailles.’ Music by Depeche Mode: ‘Enjoy the Silence’

Donatella Versace announced today that she will return to the Ritz Paris on Sunday, July 1st to show the next Atelier Versace collection. “It is with tremendous emotion that I return to the Ritz where I shared so many special moments with my brother. The closing of the Ritz Paris for two years represents the [...]

Via Haven In Paris, there’s much to love about this amazing vacation rental in Paris: With Notre Dame cathedral around the corner and the winding cobblestone streets of the Left Bank as your playground, this lovely light-filled 1 bedroom luxury flat is the perfect vacation rental for your idyllic Parisian holiday. Located in a typical [...]

R. Crumb, the American cartoonist, is said to be a timid, reclusive soul who doesn’t like visitors, photographers, reporters or even fans. But here he was on Thursday, dressed in a smart black sport coat and trousers, posing for photographers and holding forth with journalists about fame, fortune, art, politics, music and death. The occasion [...]

For a lot of men, shopping is a necessary evil: they want to look good, but don’t want to spend too much time actually selecting good-looking clothes. Often, the clothing available is less-than-inspiring, connoting “over-grown fraternity boy” rather than “stylish man of the world.” Yazid Aksas stumbled into this problem again and again, unable to [...]

An exhibition by French painter Edgar Degas has opened at the Paris Orsay museum, with some 170 paintings, prints and sculptures focusing exclusively on female nudes:

Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs, which has just opened at the Musée Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, is an attempt to give life to the Vuitton label by casting it as a double biography: of Louis Vuitton himself, the man who began his career as trunk-packer to Napoleon’s Empress and invented modern luggage, and of [...]

The famous Museé des Arts Decoratifs in Paris will unveil the ‘Louis Vuitton – Marc Jacobs’ exhibition, set to run from March 9-16, 2012. Spread over two floors and dedicated to the life and work of both Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs, the show will feature some of the finest pieces in the Louis Vuitton [...]

Hôtel Le Bristol Paris is an exceptional luxury hotel filled with life and culture, which has made service an art. With a large “à la française” garden, true oasis of peace in the city, Hotel Le Bristol is ideally located on the rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, one of Paris’ most distinguished shopping streets. 187 [...]

When in Paris, do not hesitate to visit Hotel Thoumieux Restaurant Gastronomique. Displaying exceptionally designed interiors and interesting details, the hotel and restaurant compose a symphony of spaces that enchant the eye and offer those promising moments away from stressful everyday life. The interiors are very inspiring, featuring 15 beautiful rooms displaying a carefully studied [...]

Maison & Objet has revealed its Designers of the Year — which includes brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana, originally from the Brazilian city of Brotas; French designer Hubert le Gall; and Tokujin Yoshioka from Japan. Humberto and Fernando Campana first came into the design world with an exhibition of iron chairs in San Paulo in [...]

French baker Jean-Louis Hecht has rolled out a 24-hour automated baguette dispenser, promising warm bread for hungry night owls, shift workers or anyone else who doesn’t have time to pick one up during their bakery’s opening hours. Hecht, a baker from Hombourg-Haut in north-east France has opened one in his home town and another in [...]

Let’s visit the Cire Trudon shop in Paris, located at 78 rue de Seine. The world’s oldest candle maker was founded in 1643. Past customers have included Marie Antoinette and Napoleon. Current customers include Kenzo, Guerlain, Hermes and Dior. Crédit Photos Roman Bonnery