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Claudia Curran
Our strong ties with France Lest We Forget - Ne l'oublions jamais
Lest We Forget - Ne l'oublions jamais At dawn on the 25 April in cities and towns around Australia, people gathered to remember those who served our nation in conflicts dating back to World War 1. An ANZAC Day highlight for many others is to attend the dawn service at the Villers-Bretonneux military cemetery, one of the key Somme battlefields of both the first and second world wars, located 140km north of Paris. The recapture of the town of Villers-Bretonneux in WW1 cost more than 1200 Australian lives. These soldiers are among the 2,142 compatriots buried at the military...
Claudia Curran
Paris Guide: A Few Of My Favourite Things
Restaurants/Cafes Café Marly - Le Louvre. It has a great terrace or you can dine inside and peer into the Louvre museum L’Avenue - Star-spotting café on ave Montaigne Les Deux Magots - Saint Germain de Près La Closerie des Lilas - A restaurant that Ernest Hemingway used to frequent on Blvd Montparnasse La Tour D’argent - Fine dining, overlooking La Seine Jules Verne - Fine dining, on the 2nd floor of the Eiffel Tower Hôtel Costes - Super-cool cafe and bar on rue St Honoré Girafe Restaurant - A great place to eat seafood and gaze at the Eiffel...
Claudia Curran
Behind the scenes at the Autumn/Winter shoot
Behind the scenes at the Autumn/Winter shoot It’s been all hands on deck for Jac Cadeaux this week! We hit the studio last Friday to shoot our Autumn/Winter ’24 collection, producing 2500 images from which we’re now selecting the best to showcase a range of new and subtly evolved styles that we’ve been informally calling the Alpes-Maritime collection.Many of you will know the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, tucked in the south-east of the country against the Italian border. It embraces a significant stretch of the French riviera, including Cannes and Nice, but also the mountains beyond, with ancient stone villages...
Claudia Curran
Jackie O's younger sister Lee Bouvier Radziwill
Lee Bouvier Radziwill Last week marked five years since the passing of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and, many have argued, the more stylish of the two. While Jackie O stole the spotlight as a former US first lady and global style icon, Lee emanated an elegance that was still shining well into her 80s. In fact, Lee had grown up in fierce rivalry with the more studious and athletic Jackie, in one of New York’s wealthiest families. In 1953 Jackie married the charismatic future president John F Kennedy, thereby joining what many consider America’s...