France’s iron lattice is hard to miss on arrival in its capital city. For a simple view of all 330m of the Eiffel Tower pack a blanket and a fresh baguette and head for a picnic on the Champs de Mars.

Fashion Revolution Week 2025 is set to engage citizens from over 80 countries. Credit: Fashion Revolution. Fashion Revolution Week 2025, scheduled for 22-27 April, aims to unite individuals across ...

Most people know of 1789, when the starving peasants and the ambitious bourgeoisie in France ... of fromage when it comes to The Glorious French Revolution, no hints of romance or outbreaks ...

Reading the great Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, however, helped me to appreciate the differences between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In contemporary ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Olympics or not, there is no denying the je ne sais quoi of Parisian style.

In “Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution,” Anne Higonnet explains how, a century before Coco Chanel released women from their restrictive dress, a trio of women ...

French lawmakers target Shein's fast fashion model amid accusations of labour exploitation and environmental harm, despite its hyper-efficient supply chain. With jaw-droppingly low prices and a ...

The motto of the French Revolution was “Liberty, equality, fraternity.” It could also have been “Liberty, equality, fashion.” Postscript: By the end of 1804, Napoleon had grown wary of ...

On 24 February 1848, having already forced Louis Philippe out of the Tuileries Palace, the Paris crowd stormed the Chamber of Deputies, where France’s political elite was fighting over the remnants of ...

Most of those were destroyed or used for other purposes after the French Revolution, but Paris remained a collegiate ... Paris also became one of the great consumerist centres – a place where fashion ...

Sakshi Kabra is a passionate researcher, environmentalist and educationist. She has worked in education, women empowerment, environmental conservation domain and she has spearheaded many ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...