“Inception” Premiere Party

Los Angeles – What made the huge Hollywood premiere of “Inception” on Tuesday, July 13, different from most? It wasn’t that it was staged at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; that’s been the spot where movie premieres have happened since 1927. Nor was it having a huge movie star like Leonardo DiCaprio head [...]

Future of Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan’s future includes a new fashion line, two new movies, some time in jail and another stint in rehab.
The actress was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in jail and 90 days in a residential substance-abuse program for violating her probation, stemming from two separate 2007 cases of driving under the influence of cocaine and [...]

Lioness from Chanel Couture

A giant golden lion, his burly head standing 45-feet above the audience in Paris’ Grand Palais stood sentry over the latest thoroughly chic floral fantasy couture collection from Chanel, staged with customary aplomb in Paris Tuesday, July 6. And while the lion was mammoth, the collection’s silhouette was lean and, especially for couture, short, [...]

Tulip Culture in Paris

One thing that folks here in Paris always insist gives haute couture a certain validity is that its ideas and inventions eventually translate into real fashion trends, which millions of women end up wearing without ever realizing from where the initial thought came. If that’s true, and a decade or two attending French couture [...]

France’s Le Monde and Tycoon Trio

A French Internet billionaire, a patron of the arts and a flamboyant banker won control of Le Monde newspaper on Monday despite President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bid to stop them.
The trio includes Xavier Niel, 42, an Internet entrepreneur who first made his money from sex chat services and later shook up the French Internet market [...]