When it comes to good restaurants, even Francophiles agree that New York and Paris are just about even. But gyms? The Big Apple wins hands down. That is, until Klay opened in the City of Light’s Montorgueil neighborhood last month. It took owner Arthur Benzaquen (he also owns the tony Ken Club in the 16th [...]

Vanessa Bruno is taking her latest act online. For Fall, the Parisienne’s go-to designer for “easy clothes for difficult girls” tapped Lou Doillon to star in a four-minute clip directed by longtime collaborator Stéphanie Di Giusto and set to a seventies musical backdrop by Linda Perhacs and Final Fantasy selected by Bruno herself. The film, [...]

One usually thinks of the couture as a genteel scene, but last night at Givenchy’s darkly romantic show, there was a bit of culture clash between the ladies who lunch and the fashion crowd. As cameras jostled for shots of front-row girls Lou Doillon, Joana Preiss, and Liz Goldwyn, the serious (read: buying) clientele sat [...]

I’m going to say it right now: If I’m at Le Baron every night this week, I’m going to lose all self-respect. (Not that I had that much to begin with.) But for some reason—and I can assure you it’s not the space or the clean bathrooms—it seems every time I’m in Paris I end [...]

Breaking news: Lou Doillon has just accepted an ambassadorship. The country? Bargain-istan. It’s a French territory for those of you not up on your make-believe geography.
Former Target-eer Isaac Mizrahi unveils his first collection for Liz Claiborne. It looks pretty happy; he calls it more “grown-up.” Just don’t use that word around him.
Meanwhile, Mizrahi’s former [...]

John Galliano gets the royal treatment. While you were sleeping off your hangover, the designer was appointed a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, and probably designing some killer haute couture.
Ecco Domani announced 2009’s first fashion winners, awarding, among others, Lyn Devon, Cushnie et Ochs, and Ohne Titel handy $25,000 grants for [...]

Miu Miu opens its doors tomorrow on 57th Street, in Jil Sander’s old digs, with a nearly 5000 square-foot space over three floors dedicated to the label’s sweet-yet-subversive wares. But it’s a sneak preview of images that will be on display on the store’s third floor that may really get the Miu Miu-philes going—and remind [...]

Lee Cooper stylist Lou Doillon is currently filming in New York, so she missed Lee Cooper’s 100-year anniversary auction at the Drouout Montaigne auction house in Paris last night. But plenty of fans turned out to snap up one-off and limited editions created for the brand’s global denim charity project, undertaken in association with the [...]

Lou Doillon’s Franco-Anglo lilt is admittedly the most bewitching we’ve ever heard, hence our absolute delight in listening to the actress/model/musician discuss a relatively obscure, nine-page Samuel Beckett short story comprising a single sentence. “In French ‘la langue’ means the language as much as the tongue, so already from the first word in the text [...]

“Can I have your attention, please: The Rose Bar is now officially a rock ‘n’ roll club.” With that announcement, which was made by Nur Khan, who’s been the maestro of the Gramercy Park’s swanky red-velvet lounge since it opened, the top-secret second anniversary celebration of the club began. (Not that anything in this city [...]