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Justin Timberlake's New Costar: The Eiffel Tower
A romantic romp under the stars in Paris is the plot of a new perfume ad starring Justin Timberlake, shooting at night around the Eiffel Tower this week. Like an aging diva, the Tower won't travel for just anyone, so the singer/actor had to come to her.
The shoot, for Givenchy's cologne "Play," feature Timberlake and an actress crossing the Champ de Mars and scaling the tower at night. Since an earlier spot for the fragrance included Timberlake on a plane, this must be his destination—which makes sense, given that the brand has called Paris home since its founding in 1952. No sign of on-again off-again girlfriend (and fellow Super World Traveler) Jessica Biel on set, although the pair recently had lunch in Vancouver where she's filming the big-screen "A-Team" remake.
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YSL Will Send You To Paris For New Years, If You Prove 'Parisienne'
Ahh, New Years in Paris, what a fantasy trip that would be. Although we got the dream New Years vacation out of the way a few years ago in Venice, it doesn't mean that we can't lust after the combination of fashion and free travel that the new contest from Yves Saint Laurent offers.
Here's the details, for all you wannabe holiday jetsetters: YSL is launching a new fragrance called Parisienne and they've devoted a mini-site to it, complete with a blog of Paris travel tips. To win a trip for two to Paris for New Years, you must also share a story and photos, specifically "about how you have experienced the spirit of Parisienne in your own life." There's also a chance of winning a YSL handbag and Beaute products, but we'll just take the trip thanks.
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The Top Five Paris Tourist Sites Affected By Fashion Week
The City of Lights will become the City of Photographer Flash Strobes in the next 24 hours as Paris Fashion Week officially begins tomorrow and runs through Thursday, October 8. Although this means that Paris will be on its best behavior with gleaming-clean upscale restaurants, the best window displays, and serious eye candy walking down the street, it also means that private parties and fashion shows will possibly clog up some of the sights that tourists regularly hit.
Since we want you to get the most out of Paris in the autumn, with a dash of the glamor of the Fashion Week thrown in, we'll let you in on the places to either hit or skip—depending on how much you love big crowds of pretentious people—in Paris for the next ten days:
Top 5 Paris tourist sites affected by Fashion Week, after the jump
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Vandals Dare To Disturb Paris Catacombs, Awaken Curse?
Just ahead of Halloween, a creepy disturbance shutters one of Paris' most morbid destinations. Now tourists won't have the treat of walking among the 14th-century dead while city officials find the grave-raiser.
A tourist destination dating back to the 19th century, the Paris Catacombs, resting place of French Revolution figures like Georges Danton, contains bones dating back to the 14th century. Some 300,000 visitors a year trek out to the 14th arrondissement to check out the remains of more than 6 million Parisians, until earlier this month when an unknown number of vandals tipped over several stacks of those remains, making the path through the tunnels impassible.
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Pop-Up Restaurant Opens On Paris Rooftop, Sends Foodies Swooning
Earlier this year, we pouted and said a sad little "au revoir, notre amour" to the Hotel Everland, a single little hotel room which sat atop Paris' Palais de Tokyo and offered an unparalleled view of the EIffel Tower starting from $488 a night.
After a very successful run of just over a year, the pop-up hotel room left in April, but now Paris is reviving the concept in the form of a restaurant. Fashion Week Daily has the dirt on what's sure to be the next big thing on the Paris cuisine scene:
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Sweep The Autumn Leaves From The Graves Of Proust And Wilde In Paris
Alright, alright—Paris is merveilleuse at all times of the year, but during the autumn, certain sections of the city veritably come alive with the death of the leaves. Heck, the season even inspired a Barbie doll to use a walking stick.
There are the Jardin des Tuileries, Jardin du Luxembourg, Bois de Boulogne, and of course the pathways along the Seine River for premium fall foliage peeping. But for the most unique experience, we're turning a little morbid by recommending a stroll around Père Lachaise cemetery, where the autumnal colors stand stark against the gray and black tombs of figures like Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust, and Edith Piaf.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Is Making Out And Dodging Explosions In Paris
Protecting Ellen Page from flying debris and making out with Marion Cotillard is all in a week’s work for Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo, Ellen and Marion are all in Paris this week filming the contemporary Sci-Fi thriller Inception, which is being directed by The Dark Knight’s Christopher Nolan. Very little is known about the film except that it takes place in "the architecture of the mind," whatever that means.
What we do know for sure is that Leo and Ellen filmed at Cafe Debussy and near the Pont de Bir-Hakeim on the Seine yesterday. This isn't the first time on the big screen for the bridge; it was also featured in National Treasure 2, Munich and Last Tango in Paris.
Leo invited a few family members along on the Paris trip, including his mother who seemed to be doting on her famous son. We wouldn’t be surprised if Leo put his family up at the ultra lux Four Seasons George V while they're visiting him in Paris. Right now, the hotel is offering a special Bed and Breakfast Package that includes a full American breakfast daily for up to two adults at the hotel’s La Galerie, Le Cinq restaurant or through In-Room Dining for $1170.00 a night. For that kind of money, you too could probably also be making out with Marion Cotillard.
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The Top Five Places For Following In The Footsteps Of Julia Child
Julia Child had a fascinating life, she was a virgin in her 30s, a cooking student in her 40s and America's top chef in her 50s. Her most inspired years were spent in France where she fell in love with food and the art of cooking. In Julie and Julia, Meryl Streep recreates Julia's life there and her early years as a burgeoning chef.
· La Courounne in Rouen
On Julia's first day in France, her husband Paul brought her to lunch here. It was her first taste of proper French food: briny portugaises oysters with rye bread, Dover sole in butter sauce and a simple green salad. In her memoir, My Life in France, she wrote, "It was the most exciting meal of my life." La Courounne, which was also a favorite of Savador Dali, is still open and continues to serve French specialties like lobster soufflé, sheeps' feet and duck in blood sauce.
More places to be inspired by Julia after the jump.
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Forget The Riviera; Paris Has The Hot Beaches This Summer
By now, we're pretty familiar with the fact that cities like New York, Amsterdam and Paris love to take a break from the hot, urban grind to get down by the shore of their rivers (or canals, in Amsterdam's case) and pretend for a moment that they're on the riviera.
Instead of pouring a dumptruck-full of sand onto the banks of the Seine in Paris, this year the City of Light is kicking it up a notch by having a whole month (July 20 to August 20) of beach atmosphere, water sports, and resort culture along a few patches of the river. Called "Paris Plages," which simply means "Paris Beaches," the event brings in 1,350 tons of sand, 250 sun loungers, 350 deckchairs, 200 tables, 800 chairs, 250 sun umbrellas, 50 palm trees, 40 hammocks… you get the idea.
There will of course also be cafes, sidewalk vendors, various swimming pools, and activities like kayaking, sailing, pedal-boating and hamster-balling (those inflatable wheels pictured above).
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On the Road Again: How to Reach Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Your flight has landed, you've claimed your luggage and now you're trying to get the hell out of the airport. To erase confusion and get your on your way, all week long at Jaunted we will be detailing the various ways to get to and from major airports, and what those modes cost, from cheapest to the big blowout entrance. Got any tips or an airport suggestion? Let us know.
· RER B-line Extraurban Train: Although the cheapest route into Paris proper, opting for the RER means quite a bit of slogging around with your luggage. First, know what terminal you'll be arriving into; if Terminal 1, you must take a green transport shuttle to the RER station there, and if Terminal 2, take a blue shuttle to the station where the TGV train also stops. In exchange for the run-around, your RER into the city gives you a whole host of jumping off chocies: Gare du Nord, Chatelet-les-Halles, Saint-Michel/Notre Dame, Luxembourg, Port-Royal, and Denfert-Rochereau.
Total cost: €8.40 per adult or €5.90 per child, each way
Total time: 35 minutes to Gare du Nord
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How To Do a Day Trip to Versailles From Paris
When it comes to visiting Paris, there seem to be a few unspoken rules regarding being a perfect tourist: complain about the line at the Louvre, attempt to order your coffees in French, gasp at the interior of the Opéra Garnier, and give Paris a day off by heading outside of the town to Le Château Versailles. For anything less than a 5-day trip to the City of Lights, we'd stick to the city and its Art Nouveau and gateaux, but longer visits necessitate the break from Paris that Versailles affords.
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New Paris Store Sells Chanel for the Good of Madagascar
Believe it or not, the city of luxury shopping has finally birthed a store focused more on charity and less on marking items up to high heaven. Having opened yesterday in the middle of Paris' Fashion Week, Merci in the Marais is a boutique conceived by the owners of the "childrenswear couture house" Bonpoint. Seeking to turn their high-profile connections and retail know-how into a philanthropic mission, the pair will donate 100% of profits at Merci to a children's cause in Madagascar.
We know what you're thinking; they sell secondhand or overstock, right? As if! Merci is the result of three years of negotiating with brands like Yves Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Alexis Mabille and Marni to manufacture pieces specifically for their store, and since the designers are not taking any profits, "the items are priced at 30 percent to 40 percent less than the clothing in their own shops." With three stories, a perfume bar and a home department, Merci has also left space for the rare vintage finds, so you will find some secondhand here. Alas, it is Chanel, Dior and Burberry, and all for the good of Madagascar as well as your closet.
The concept is about as recession-friendly as one can get, and we don't expect this to be the end of it: "Offering designer wear and home goods as well as books, perfumes, flowers and food, the [owners] say Merci is Europe's first philanthropic store, and hope to open sister-shops in London, Milan, New York and Tokyo."
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