The most visited museum in the world is wooing a new crowd by injecting glamorous new cool into its fustiest department.
Category: Paris (France)
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Rick Owens Strips Down for Paris Fashion Week
The reigning king of freakish fashions strips things back with stark leather jackets and corporate-type coats. But Mr. Owens could never really make anything average.
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150 Years of See and Be Seen at Paris’s Palais Garner Opera House
It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house opened in Paris. Today, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances scheduled for this season.
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At Paris Fashion Week, Shades of Normcore From Auralee, the Row and Lemaire
In Paris, prosaic clothes endure, just polished into something more arresting.
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Pharell Williams and Nigo’s Louis Vuitton Collection 2025
For his latest Vuitton collection, Pharrell Williams tapped his best bud Nigo to be co-creative director. And Bernard Arnault made it back from the Trump inauguration to see it.
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Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes
The city’s traditional cafes and bistros are staking out their cultural territory in an emerging duel against highly caffeinated upstarts serving up latte art.
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The Conductor Daniel Harding Moonlights as a Pilot for Air France
Daniel Harding scaled the heights of classical music. Then he set out to conquer the skies.
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Oh, the Places We Went!
This year, of the 52 destinations on our annual list, our writers and photographers touched down in 11 to capture their essence. Here’s what they found.
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Martial Solal, French Jazz Piano Virtuoso, Is Dead at 97
Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there.
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A Lost Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud Set Off a Bidding War in Paris
The discovery of a rare picture of the tragic, handsome poet, made by his lover Paul Verlaine, set off a bidding war in Paris.
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A Lost Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud Set Off a Bidding War in Paris
The discovery of a rare picture of the tragic, handsome poet, made by his lover Paul Verlaine, set off a bidding war in Paris.
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Childhood Friends, Now Jewelry Partners
Iris de La Villardière and Thomas Montier Leboucher have spent the past few years expanding their brand, Viltier.