Watching the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup, those who remembered Jean Paul Goude’s parade for the bicentenary of the French Revolution on the Champs-Élysées in 1989 were glad they lived to see it. It seems a long time ago that French values and tradition went hand in hand with innovation and creativity. That evening, in […]

Experts and gurus of all stripes have been telling us for years that we need to slow down if we want to be saved. At some point, it had to materialize. Of course, slow life, slow tourism and slow fashion have been topics for years, but they have never made it beyond the trend pages of […]

Not only was Barbie a movie that hit big at the box office this summer (over 5 million viewers), but it also operated as a vehicle for discussion. Proof of that are the numerous LinkedIn posts questioning the film’s feminist pretensions or worrying about the slide towards commercialism of movie production, increasingly in the hands of […]

No one can fail to notice it. Some may resent it. Our time will forever be remembered for its trend to rate, evaluate and estimate everything. It feels like the only way to exist today is through comparison and approval. I am who others decide I am. This acute “ratitis”, characterized by sudden fevers of stars and thumbs-up, […]

It will have escaped no one that the Merveilles du Monde chocolates are back. The brand that could sell over 10 million bars a year with a single recipe (!) was taken over by young startup entrepreneurs. And it is once again a success: 300,000 bars were sold out in less than the first 3 weeks, causing […]