Alexandria Sage

Paris fashion week zips up, flounces, and soars to outer space

November 4, 2021 at 1:17 a.m.

Designers at Paris fashion week mixed spectacle and showbiz to swing the fashion spotlight away from Hollywood's Oscars, with enough zippers, fringing and space-age chic to keep the photographers busy....

Grey skies don’t deter Rihanna at Paris fashion week

August 25, 2021 at 2:11 a.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Rainy skies did not deter the fashionistas from gathering this week in Paris - with singer Rihanna this season's front-row "It" girl - as the Fall/Winter ready-to-wear...

France’s Hollande promises tax stability to foreign businesses

August 25, 2021 at 1:35 a.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande appealed to foreign business leaders to invest in France on Monday, offering them simpler and more stable tax policies as his unpopular government tries...

Paris auction opens closet of Schiaparelli, doyenne of 1930s fashion

August 25, 2021 at 12:24 a.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Elsa Schiaparelli, doyenne of 1930s Paris fashion, may be long gone - buried in her favorite hue of shocking pink - but nearly 200 pieces from her...

Maker of faulty French breast implants given four years in jail

December 24, 2018 at 11:57 a.m.

MARSEILLE/PARIS (Reuters) - The founder of a French breast implant company was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for hiding the true nature of the sub-standard silicone used...

Maker of faulty French breast implants given four years in jail

November 4, 2021 at 12:43 a.m.

MARSEILLE/PARIS (Reuters) - The founder of a French breast implant company was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for hiding the true nature of the sub-standard silicone used...

Show of Brassai photographs captures light and shade of Paris

May 14, 2019 at 5:20 a.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Two lovers embrace on a double-sided bench, the backs of their heads illuminated by the garish light of a Paris gas lamp. But a second glance at...

Show of Brassai photographs captures light and shade of Paris

August 24, 2021 at 10:07 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Two lovers embrace on a double-sided bench, the backs of their heads illuminated by the garish light of a Paris gas lamp. But a second glance at...

Insight: Hard work, long hours: French find Chinese recipe sour

August 24, 2021 at 9:37 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - A newspaper open on the bar of this Paris cafe tells of a row over France's Sunday trading rules. But the bar owner, Zhang Chang, says he...

60 tons of Eiffel Tower trinkets seized in Paris

August 24, 2021 at 6:37 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Paris police have seized 60 tons of miniature Eiffel Towers that black-market vendors were hoping to sell to tourists. Paris is one of the world's top destinations,...

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