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Inspired by French actresses and models, I'm on a mission to master effortless French style 27 April 2021 • 5:00pm French supermodel Ines de la Fressange, writer Alexandra Zagalsky and French designer Jeanne Damas Credit: Getty Images / Andrew Crowley My roadmap out of lockdown includes a wardrobe rethink and all routes lead to Paris. That’s right, I’m saying adieu to bland athleisure and plus jamais to baggy joggers because I’m sick of looking like I’ve just rolled out of bed – and I don’t mean in the manner of a New Wave sex kitten à la Jean Seberg or Anna Karina.

Above: . If you asked me to name my favorite movie, the answer would be La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini’s sprawling 1960 spectacle of modern Roman decadence. If you asked me why, I’d say that, more than any other film I can think of, this is the one I wish I could live in. Which, I admit, is a bit perverse. The people in this movie are glamorous and good-looking—Marcello Mastroianni in his slim suits and sunglasses; Anouk Aimée in her black cocktail dress; Anita Ekberg with a kitten on her head—but also notoriously alienated and miserable. Don’t get me wrong—it’s not that I ...

Sometimes the cinema images that most stick in our heads are not from the films themselves. One of the most enduring photos from the early French New Wave is of Jean Seberg, mouth open in a toothy laugh, walking down the Champs-Elysées alongside a gangling, fedora’d Jean-Paul Belmondo. This became the much-loved poster image from Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960), but it is not from the film, or even a still: it was shot between takes by Raymond Cauchetier, the man who belatedly became famous as the defining photographer of the nouvelle vague. Cauchetier, who has ...

Acielle StyleDuMonde It was a beautiful day for an outdoor wedding. Beneath a bright-blue winter sky, under the dome of the Grand Palais, Chanel hosted an intimate wedding-themed presentation in the round, complete with arbors of wildflowers, fairy lights and a bride on a white horse. “I knew we couldn’t organise a big show, so I came up with the idea of a small cortege, like a family celebration,” creative director Virginie Viard offered in her notes. Vogue was invited behind the scenes of the production, which this season was closed to the public in keeping with Covid-19 pre...

Step back in time with critically acclaimed cinematic wonders screening this month Alliance Francaise Dubai will screen French classics every Sunday Image Credit: Supplied Sundays spell classic movie nights in the city as Alliance Francaise Dubai picks out some treasured French cinematic wonders to screen at its theatre in Oud Metha. All movies will be shown at 7pm in its original language with English subtitles, with screenings starting from January 10. January 10 Starring: Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin Casque D'Or Ima...