October 15th, 2009
This week, more than 400 exhibitors are in Paris, France for the 2009 Paris Chocolate Festival. The theme this year is opera.
The event kicked off last night with a chocolate fashion show where dresses are created by a combination of top fashion designers and chocolatiers.
Walking the runway wearing the chocolate fashions were models, actresses, television personalities and opera singers.
September 4th, 2009
Louis Vuitton has honored the South of France’s defacto official sport, Pétanque by creating a limited-edition pétanque ball set.
The Luxury collection was created in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the sport pétanque.
The set includes a leather-encased set of nine monogrammed balls and a cochonnet, or jack.
August 31st, 2009
Kenzo - whose symbol is the poppy - keeps innovating following its concept of bringing nature into the urban space.
A field of 200,000 poppies will spring up in the middle of the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France, on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September.
The LVMH-owned brand has held similarly floral festivities in Paris, Madrid, London and Moscow to promote its Flower by Kenzo women’s fragrance.
July 27th, 2009
Coming in behind saffron, macadamia nuts, beluga caviar, and white truffles, the fifth most expensive food in the world isn’t some exotic fish or endangered tropical fruit: it’s a rare variety of potato.
Grown in France, the La Bonnotte potato sometimes achieves a market price of an astounding €500/kilo (US $300/lb).
It is cultivated exclusively on the Isle of Noirmoutier, where seaweed is added to the soil in which it’s grown.
June 22nd, 2009
Louis Vuitton’s mock Tudor store in Deauville, France has gotten a facial lift.
Renamed the Villa Vuitton, the 960-square-foot boutique is typical of Normandy architecture and carries accessories and leather goods over two floors.
To celebrate the opening Louis Vuitton launched a limited edition Neverfull bag with “Deauville” written in purple on the front with matching interior stripes.
May 20th, 2009
Located just a short walk from the Trocadero and opposite the Eiffel Tower, the Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan Hotel is Paris’s newest luxury boutique hotel.
Conceived by the famous designer Francois Champsaur, the 48-key boutique hotel features ten suites, five with unrestricted Eiffel Tower views.
The signature Eiffel Suite is a 430-square-foot one-bedroom suite located on the sixth floor.
