Paris, le 31 octobre au soir - Halloween © 2015 Chant Wagner A sign that Halloween is not dead in Paris was this long queue leading, I thought at first to a movie theater perhaps and next, to a...
October 2015 Archives
Recapturing Madame Bovary {Paris Photo}
Madame Bovary Recaptured I © 2015 Chant Wagner As a new filmic version of Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary is about to be released, you can spy certain parallelisms and juxtapositions in the streets of Paris, which seem to ascertain...
Next Stop H&M Balmain Nation {Fashion Notes} {Perfume Images & Ads}
To announce the upcoming collection H&M x Balmain, artistic director Olivier Roustaing has pulled nearly all the stops, offering a particularly creative advertising campaign in the form of a substantive music video by Ferdinand & VAZ with a choreography...
Mûre et Musc Extrême Gets a 24 Carat Finish Inspired by Château de Versailles {Fragrance News} {New Flacon}
L'Artisan Parfumeur have partnered with Eric de Meyer, head of the Château de Versailles cabinetmaking workshop, to create a limited-edition artisanal collection of Mûre et Musc Extrême to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Parisian department store Le Printemps for...
Tom Ford Black Orchid Eau de Toilette Revisits its own Modern Classicism (2015) {New Perfume}
American fashion designer Tom Ford is launching a new iteration of his modern classic Black Orchid eau de parfum (2006), which now comes in Black Orchid eau de toilette concentration with a new aromatic twist counting on the power-emitting...
Burberry Mr. Burberry & My Burberry Black: Hoping for Mr. Right (2016) {New Perfumes}
British fashion house Burberry have announced they are planning two new fragrance launches for 2016, Mr. Burberry and My Burberry Black......
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Launches Debut Perfume on the Champs-Elysées in Paris {Fragrance News} {Celebrity Perfume}
© Dominique Charriau / Getty Images Soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic chose the Champs-Elysées in Paris to meet his fans tonight on Tuesday evening October 27 for the launch of his debut perfume called simply Zlatan, which means "I'm slaying...
Halloween Action - A Tale of Two Cities Series {Paris & Cambridge, MA Photos}
Halloween Anticipation, Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner A Tale of Two Cities Series Last summer, when I was taking street-photographies of Istanbul I happened on unique scenes to the city but at the same time also encountered very similar...
Le magasin des modes et des élégances la nuit - The Strange Life of Objects Series {Paris Photo}
Le magasin des modes et des élégances la nuit © 2015 Chant Wagner The Strange Life of Objects Series One of my favorite, recurring topics for photographing on the streets is capturing what I like to call "The Strange...
Green, Black & Red - Flowers in the Dark {Paris Photo}
Color Story Series I love seeing color emerge timidly from a pool of black - it has something to do perhaps with the symbolism of the lotus which rises above the mud: it's surprising and unexpected......
Hookah Smokers - Smell & Shoot Series {Paris Photo}
Hookah Smokers, Paris © 2015 Chant Wagner Smell and Shoot Series In Paris there is a place which is my personal triangle of the Bermudes olfactorily speaking because very often as I walk by, I smell a vanishing smell...
Neandertal Perfume Dark & Neandertal Perfume Light Offer a Contemporary Whiff of Prehistory (2015) {New Perfumes}
Confidential and new British fragrance label Neandertal have brought to fruition the central project they've been working on, whose aim is to recreate the possible scents that Neanderthales knew, transposed to modern days. Wait. What? This is about a...
Shoes of Gold at Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades {Paris Photo}
Shoes of Gold - Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades © 2015 Chant Wagner Color Story Series I'll be honest, in this case smell was not a trigger, rather it was color. Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades is, as its...
Lanvin Jeanne Lanvin Scandal (2015) {New Perfume}
The fashion house of Lanvin are releasing a new perfume for women called Jeanne Lanvin Scandal, a scent whose name is inspired by one of the classics of the maison from the 1930s, Scandal (1931)......
End of Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Paris {Paris Photo}
Smell & Shoot Series This is a series of photos on the end of Sunday Mass at Notre Dame de Paris tonight as the religious officiants were exiting the church nave......