As you can imagine I went around quite a lot of museums in New York - eight in all - I’m not going to talk about all of them (do you want to be tortured?), but I had to tell you guys about the exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum (it’s like two blocks away from [...]

(photo - YOU, who goes out bare-headed, you are : INCORRECT because you’re not completely dressed. ILLOGICAL, would you go out without shoes, a collar or gloves? UNTIDY, for seeming to have lost your hat. CARELESS, risking to catch a cold. IMPOLITE, becasue you will not be able to greet anybody. BE A MAN…WEAR A [...]

This weekend I was up in Paris and I went and visited the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais. It started off badly- even though my friend and I had already bought our tickets on the net we had to queue for almost an hour before being let into the building- but it turned [...]

Every year the small french town of Septfonds (which has a very strong straw hat heritage) holds a hat festival called ‘Estivales du Chapeau’. There is a market area with stalls for milliners and hatters to show and sell their produce and there is also a hat competition open to everybody!! There are various catergories (straw hats, show [...]

I am 23 years old and among the many quirky things I love, there are playmobil toy figures! What can I say? They’re great! Ok, maybe a pain to dust but, eitherwise, they rock! At the moment, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (in Paris), is being held a small playmobil exhibition, so I popped in to take [...]

I wanted to post about this before it got too old. The Paris fashion week was well, last week, and my overall favorite just has to be Jean-Paul Gaultier’s collection. Please do go check out the whole collection! It’s Mexico meets Aztec tribal fashion and it’s just great! I felt that the collection really did [...]

I’ve been to see the ‘Le Tissu dans Tous ses Sens’ (cloth in all it’s ways) exhibition here in Lyon, an exhibition of textile design based on ’intelligent’ fabrics. I must say I was really disappointed,  Iwas expecting a large textile collection but it all fitted into one room which only took half an hour to go [...]

Not a real post today, I’m not well. Just a pic of a street here in Lyon, the Four Hats Street! The name cames from a hatter’s store that used to be there in the past. Thought it would be nice to share with you!
Pas un vrai post aujourd’hui, je ne vais pas top. Juste [...]

At the moment, here in Lyon, is being held the annual ‘Fête des Lumières’ (light festival). The festival first started in 1852, as a religious event to thank the Virgin Mary, on December 8th the people of Lyon put (they still do so today) rows of candles on their window sills. The festival has since [...]

 

Here are some pics from my recent visit to the puppet museum (here in Lyon). Yes, they are freaky, aren’t they? I honestly thought I’d be having nightmares following the visit but no. I love that witch puppet in the first photo, her face is great. The theme of the exhibtion was (and still is) traditional [...]