More: All Good – Hossegor

I have spoken about this beautiful concept store in Hossegor, French Surf Capital of EUROPE on the blog before (All Good) and about the owners' other project Woll Beer too. Read on...

I love – Jenni Sparks’ cutest and most detailed Paris maps!

I was contacted by this amazing illustrator recently and really wanted to share her work with you because it's detailed awesomeness cannot go unheard of with my Parishues readers! Maps are soooo boring unless you MAP PARIS IN STYLE! And this map is STYLE in it's essence. Honestly, the level of detail is gorgeous! Read on...

A short essay on photography and mental print

I still cannot stop taking mini snapshots of everything I see in my head. I think, one day, my over stimulated-sometimes-childlike brain is going to simply protest and ask me to just STOP be quiet Fiona. Just let me take is EASY for a few minutes. But until then, I do not intend to slow my mental snapshot habit. When I am able Read on...

FIAC time again!

Josef Albers - Variant Please go read about the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for artists Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Beautification - 2012 Bernard Frize - Louma Bernard Frize, Croix Read on...

JR Street Artist

I discovered JR on an Instagram feed a couple years back and since then I followed his work and travels across the planet. You see, JR, super inspired and contemporary French artist, uses the street as his gallery. And isn't the urban landscape a permanent show? Art in all it's forms: Movement - Music - Rhythms - Colours- Read on...

Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy & some tearful Umbrellas…

I have to share this scene with you purely because I am a big BIG fan of the composer Michel Legrand (Thomas Crown's soundtrack is pure genius, one amongst many many beautiful scores Legrand wrote for French cinema) and the director Jacques Demy who's major masterpiece (that's my opinion) Les Parapluies de Cherbourg just moves me endlessly. It's retro, it's technicolor and the music and voices are hypnotic. This is my favourite song from the film, if you shed a tear or not, it doesn't matter, the melody and the intensity of this scene is sure to provoke myriads of sparkles in your heart.