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Ever thought you'd have someone deliver you wine and cheese to the banks of Seine? A trip to Paris just got more fabulous.  Imagine someone bringing you a bottle of frozen rosé wine and toasts with tapenade... 

The 66th Cannes Film Festival is wrapping up today, May 26th. Click here to see, what you should take from this year's festival and the fabulous scene of the French Riviera.

French Vogue: A celebrity smoking? - Yes. S&M? - Yes.  Wrong? - Maybe. But at least they are not hypocrates.  I'm back to talking about French, France and the whole how 'openly sexual' the French fashion journalism is. I can't get enough of how liberated the French press is about talking and showing the sexual images on both - the screen [mind you - on the public TV] and magazines and that does not make French youth more, how to put it in a respectful non-sexual way? - over-sexed than the youth in other countries... Well, France - and the rest of the world - is about to get one more liberated fashion magazine in stores.

What's with the French fashion that they feel more free to publish semi-naked sexy photos in their fashion magazines, why can't the American Vogue do it?   

There's something about Floanne, the sensitivity of her French jazz - I can just listen, and listen for hours to her on my Pandora. But now, no more - she's coming to America and will be performing in New York City in less than two weeks and I've got my tickets! Can't even imagine that I've almost missed it. Never thought I'd find tickets to her concert here...

Shakespeare and Company is one of my favorite hidden treasures in Paris. It's hidden in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It's a true paradise for a true book lover, or as I call that person - a book worm...

January and February are usually the months when I start contemplating my international escape - that is, of course, after I set my mind on an warm place for sun, beach and ocean in between... I'm no stranger to the feeling that somehow, somewhat it's that time of the year again when I need to plan my next trip abroad, even if I just came from overseas a few months ago, and usually, but not always, I keep coming back to my beloved Paris... Perfect place to people watch...

Deep down I knew there was something quelque chose de nouveau about Carine Roitfeld - one of the most controversial - [and sexual] - women in the fashion industry, the Editor-in-Chief of French Vogue.  

The first time I've been ever exposed to a flea market - [but I didn't know it was a 'flea' market, but rather a 'vintage' market] - was when I was little... My grandma took me to this local market, where I was very surprised, as a kid, to find out that here is actually a market, where people sell some old stuff - [stuff, I thought, you usually throw away] - worn clothes, tea-marked cups, waxed-up candle holders... And what surprised me the most - there were many people who were actually buying this old stuff.  I turned to my grandma and asked her, why all these people are buying this old ugly stuff - [little did I know that THIS old stuff was more valuable than some of the new stuff out there...] But as a traditional grandma, she explained to me in almost 'fair tale' terms: "Well, you know, this stuff has history. Each of these things has a magic, it carries a spirit of that family, the family secrets, traditions, it might have seen the events...