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Photographs from the Tumblr Fat and Furious Burger I don’t read the papers enough. Two days ago, I discovered the most inspiring Tumblr of the moment. Flicking through I realized I was months out of date. Fricotte, Glamour and a few other blogs have already mentioned Fat and Furious Burger. The pitch, “One Friday. Two hungry tummies. Lunch (More...)

Article in Elle from Friday 5th October 2012 (you’ll have taken note that the word "glory" fits perfectly here. However, in the event that my ankles would swell up, the misspelling of my name acts as an anti-water retention pill :-) It’s my weekend of international glory. I wanted to share my joy with you lot who have followed me for (More...)

Photography by Anne Margreet Honing. Caroline Wachsmuth doing yoga in the Joshua Tree national park Yesterday I was strolling around Paris having rediscovered the foot genie (Gwenn Libouban, an extraordinary Britanny-based reflexologist who occasionally comes to Paris to put our energies back in order). I looked at all the trendy fashion (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation Those that follow me on instagram - @lilibarberycoulon – know: I was in Berlin just the beginning of this week. Right by the hotel I was staying at I discovered an amazing boutique that Dennis Paphitis, the founder of Aesop, recommended I visit before I left. So, promise, having mentioned him millions of times this (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation. The Esquire Covers by George Lois and Damn Good Advice (same author) This summer I was lucky enough to talk with George Lois, the Art Director who inspired the character of Don Draper in the Mad Men series. I’m not going to paraphrase the article I wrote for M, Le Monde’s magazine (here, on Le Monde’s website). (More...)

Photography from Morphé, a film by Lucy McRae for Aesop Impossible to post this week. It wasn’t the motivation that was lacking. But since Monday, I have been in a big open space in a prestigous office in the 13th arrondissement and I haven’t had time for a little daily recreation. If on top of that we add a babysitting disaster the very day (More...)

Collage of Autumn-Winter 2012-2013 adverts from Versace, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Jil Sander, Lanvin and Miu Miu Ladies, we have something to worry about. For our hair at least. I don’t know what we’ve done to deserve such hair-induced torture but if we’re to believe the Autumn/Winter ads, we have been hit with shave trash, greasy tresses and grunge (More...)

Photography Copyright Épatant. Épatant store entrance in Melbourne, Australia. Below, indoor view. The end. Four weeks and a complete change of scenery. After a fantastic road trip in the Big Bend region in Texas and the yearly excursion to the chestnuts of Cévenne, here I am back in Paris. Last year, my holidays had been so bad I was looking (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation. Concrete works by Donald Judd in the Marfa desert in Texas Another article to churn out and I will be officially on holiday for a month. Tomorrow, at dawn, I leave for Texas where I was in April, for those who follow. It made such an impression on me that I decided to go back with my husband and daughter. I’m (More...)

Photography from the Miroir Miroir film by Peter Philips for Chanel’s Make Up Confidential website Chanel make-up’s Creative Director has done it again. After his iconic robots and magazine collages, Peter Phillips got inspired by the Paris-Bombay catwalk from last December. He has shown in the past to be an expert at placing crystals on thek (More...)

Images taken from the Ciel Mon Press Office tumblr A Facebook link did the rounds the end of last Friday: Ciel Mon Press Office. I didn’t have time to check out DailyElle in the day (apparently she posted about this site around lunchtime). Nor when it was also recommended to me at dawn by a Grazia journalist and the Colette Press Officer. I (More...)

Photography from Sweet Style blog Another month before it’s holiday time. Yesterday, one of my friends sent me a print screen of the weather in Texas this week, exactly where I was in April and where I’m going back to in August. Sunny skies, thirty degrees celcius, not a cloud in sight. I dreamt about this all night but it wasn’t enough to (More...)

An extract from the Wah Nails book available at Colette If you follow me on Instagram - @lilibarberycoulon – you’ve probably noticed my last pathology: perpetual manicure syndrome. I’m obsessed with changing nail varnish every three days, trying out two different French manicure tones, and even more questionable effects like the yellow and (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation This week I wasn’t in the mood for partying. So I couldn’t go and celebrate Bogato’s third birthday with its founder, lovely Anaïs Olmer and those who supported her patisserie concept from the beginning. Last Thursday, she organized a ‘birthday cake’ workshop for a few bloggers and journalists. In two hours, we made an (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation The My Little Day site celebrated its two year birthday yesterday afternoon in a show room in the Marais. You only needed to follow the string of overexcited children on rue de Braque to find the venue. As expected, the two site founders Gabriella and Dorothée didn’t neglect a single detail: a My Little Day, (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation. Coach William and choreographer Twiggy in the middle of the Dance or Die class yesterday evening at Klay sports club Yesterday evening I went to Klay sports club (which I’ve already spoken to you about and you can find in my useful beauty addresses list) to try out the new Dance or Die class. Sixty minutes of (More...)

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there have been a few changes on the blog these past few days. Little details only I am probably maniac enough to notice in order to perfect the circulation. Menus you can scroll down so you can see the sub-categories more easily. A carrousel in the middle of the Home page to see the last ten articles posted (More...)

Profile picture of the new Editor-in-Chief of DailyElle, Sophie Fontanel It’s been months, even years, that I wake myself up with tea. And with Sophie Fontanel’s articles. Last 27th April, the French Elle journalist’s blog became a website. A daily fashion report that reveals her unique spirit all day long, hour by hour. Ten more reasons to go (More...)

Charles-Edouard Barthes and his wife Eriko Nakamura Charles-Edouard Barthes is so in love with his wife Eriko Nakamura he created a line of skincare for her. EviDens de Beauté, is a very luxurious anti-aging brand for ultra sensitive skin that aims to use strong molecules without risking a bad skin reaction. In this photograph, from their (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation Weeks go by and each one is different. Still under the Texan desert’s charm which has infiltrated all the vacant spaces in my brain, I confront a depressing return punctuated with various disgruntlements. Nothing major. Just daily issues of unhelpful people giving me a hard time and Rowan Atkinson who seems to have (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation I came back yesterday from a short stay in Texas (way too short) that went by in a flash. A Wild West escapade I can’t tell you too much about before the publication of the article I’ve been asked to write…you’re going to have to be patient! The whole time I had the Friday Night Lights TV series’ soundtrack looping (More...)

Photography Copyright Petersham Nurseries While sorting out documents on my Mac I miraculously came across an interview of Stella McCartney from Autumn 2006. She was launching a sublime line of organic skincare products baptized Care at the time (it has since disappeared). She invited a few Beauty journalists to present it. Very pregnant – a (More...)

Launched last January, The Red List is already doing the Facebook ‘Share’ - ing rounds big time. Although up until now it hasn’t had much of an effect on me. As a result, I almost missed out on this cultural platform of genius. But last week, while I was looking for some films to go with one of the articles I’m preparing, a journalist friend (More...)

Photographs by Ma Récréation Restaurants to hotels, fashion and interiors boutiques, everyone is now developing their own range of scented candles. I wouldn’t be surprised to find one stamped by the local butcher. It has to be said this object, though accessible, is not quite as engaging as perfume. And you can always manage to stick one around (More...)

Photography by Ma Récréation A few months ago, I went to Géraldine Dormoy-Tungate’s kitchen to ask her to make me her incredible roquefort rabbit dish. It went off the hook with responses on Facebook. A delicious meal that led me to meet her husband Mark Tungate, an English journalist expatriated in Paris who has just finished his book Branded (More...)

Back from my escape abroad, I discovered the buzz of online articles about the Colette Carnival happening this weekend: a crazy party in the Tuileries gardens to celebrate the Parisian concept store’s fifteenth birthday. The kind of number that generously reminds the aging of those, like me, who took part in the exciting early stages of this (More...)

Greta Garbo laughing in the film Ninotchka Once again another mental week with deadlines coming at me from all directions. Twice as much work as usual. I’m not complaining: I’m six days away from travel paradise. The kind of destination that inspires insults of all sorts and the hatred of one’s friends. In the run up to my sun, sea, sand (More...)

Star icon, from the "Figures of style" application that allows you to send messages using letters formed by an arrangement of Chanel make-up products Long abandoned by beauty brands content with the showcasing of their stores, the Net is the new territory to be colonized ASAP. Last year, it was Chanel who began the hostilities with (More...)

Photography by Fanny B and Olivier Chamussy Last year, I spoke of the mania surrounding the ice cream trucks found on every street corner in New York. In fact I made a bet that we would have them this summer in Paris. Finally, I cross my fingers. With a megaphone diffusing musicbox tunes and transparent tubes filled with old school cones. (More...)

Christy Turlington and Yasmin Le Bon in Robert Leacock and Milton Moses Ginsberg’s Cat Walk We’re two days away from the beginning of New York Fashion Week: here’s a post dedicated to the fashionistas and nostalgics of the 90’s. A jewel of a film about fashion behind-the-scenes where you’ll recognize the makeup artist François Nars before the (More...)

Photography Ma Récréation Who could have imagined ten years ago that the manicure market was going to explode to this extent? In 2004, Ji Baek, manicure guru from New York and creator of Rescue Beauty Lounge, told me she absolutely could not imagine crazy colors on hands, « No-one wants yellow or blue on their nails. The chicest New Yorkers (More...)