Girls' Guide to Paris

Audrey Brock, a young French woman, is a partner and fellow photographer with her American-born hubby, Anthony, in their firm One and Only Paris Photography. Their concept photo shoot (which they do for folks who are visiting Paris) is called You and the City, and it allows you and your partner, lover, sister, daughter or group of friends to have photos taken with Paris as the backdrop—these are not snapshots, dears. They are framable pieces of art. >> Read more

Anne Lederer

5/4/2010 11:00:00 AM

Paris changed Anne Lederer’s life, turning her from a corporate lawyer into a proud small business owner.
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Clotilde Dusoulier

4/27/2010 9:50:00 AM

Clotilde Dusoulier is a born-and-bred parisienne who became a dedicated food writer via a stay in the San Francisco Bay Area and the creation of an intensely popular blog, Chocolate and Zucchini. Passionate about fresh ingredients and chocolate in equal measure, she has also written two cookbooks: Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen and Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris. >> Read more

Heather Stimmler-Hall

4/19/2010 12:45:00 PM

Paris-based writer and tour guide Heather Stimmler-Hall really knows her stuff! We talk to the former travel editor and author of the delightfully mischievous Naughty Paris: A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City. >> Read more

Flora Richard

4/12/2010 9:55:00 AM

Free concerts, backstage partying with the stars . . . tough job, right? Originally from the south, born-again parisienne Flora Richard is a band manager for Burning Bridges Music. Here she shares some of her favorite music hangouts with us. >> Read more

Casey O'Brien Blondes

4/5/2010 10:13:00 AM

Casey in transit to Paris.

Casey O'Brien Blondes is our quintessential Parisian Woman this week. An Irish Catholic girl born and raised in New Jersey and London, she has lived in and around Paris for the past 20-odd years. Her husband, Jeffrey, had spent time in France and convinced her to move in the 1980s, so they picked up and went without a plan or a clue as to what they were going to do.
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Bérangère Lomont

3/29/2010 11:36:00 AM

Bérangère Lomont is a professional photographer dedicated to architecture, reportage and portraits, especially of artists in their ateliers. She works for the Paris museum La Cité d’Architecture et du Patrimoine (City of Architecture and Heritage), and with the art conservators l’Atelier ARCOA, for whom she photographs the entire process of a restoration. Her own work is shown in both private galleries and in venues such as the Centre Pompidou. >> Read more

Beth Arnold

3/22/2010 10:31:00 AM

Beth Arnold is a journalist and award-winning writer living in Paris. She is from Arkansas, of all places, but has adopted Paris with gusto. She has written on politics, Paris, travel and people for Salon, GQ, Vogue, Rolling Stone, InStyle, Self and writes a “Letter from Paris” frequently for the Huffington Post. Her recent post on museum shows on her blog is spot on in terms of which shows to see this spring in Paris. She is a lady who loves Paris and Politics so she is truly a girl after my own heart. Oh and did I mention she also wrote a book with her husband, Chasing Matisse?
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Kumi Ozaki-Charau

3/8/2010 10:45:00 AM

Photo: Steve Sampson

Paris can transform expatriate artists into entrepreneurs (think Nancy Cunard or Sylvia Beach), and Kumi Ozaki-Charau is one modern example. She moved from Japan as an Air France employee. But Ozaki-Charau now has her own company, Mingouwou, as well as her own label: Rani Mingouwou Paris. Through these, she produces one-off sacs (handbags) and jewelry.

A different passion inspires her concert series, Kumi’s Classiques, a Parisian showcase for young classical musicians. If you’re the sort of girl who’s out every night, Ozaki-Charau’s face may be familiar from openings, expos and concerts. >> Read more

Susan Shup

3/1/2010 10:28:00 AM

Susan Shup is an American artist living in Paris. She works at her Marais atelier, the SHUPSHOP, and is represented by the dealer Rabih Hage in London. I visited her recently to explore her world of painting, drawing, books, videos, animation, murals, spoken word pieces, performance art and projects for Hermès and others—this woman can do it all. Plus, she is fun, gorgeous and charming. If you are an art collector or want to become one, make an appointment to visit Susan. Her lithographs sell for $700, and prices for her extraordinary paintings reach $10,000 and beyond. Her art is owned by many important collectors, including the billionaire New York financier Ronald Perelman. Just a visit to her website will give you an idea of how much fun she has making art. In another life, many of us hope to come back as Susan. >> Read more

Debra Ollivier

2/22/2010 11:07:00 AM

An LA girl who has spent more than 10 years in France, where she married and had her children, Debra Ollivier is the author of Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl and What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind. Who better to give us a little sample of Parisian pleasures? >> Read more

Maeggie Maillet

2/15/2010 11:00:00 AM

Maeggie Mailliet is a 30-year resident of Montmartre and a friend. She was born and raised in Switzerland but now considers herself a Parisian (almost). To me, she is the quintessential Parisian woman, an ideal I strive for. Charming, elegant, fashionable and very, very kind—oh, and did I mention generous? >> Read more

Susan Tabak

2/8/2010 10:30:00 AM

Susan Tabak has everyone’s fantasy job. She has the pleasure of attending the fashion shows in Paris each season and is just back from the most recent one. Susan has a website where she catalogs all of her finds and her interviews with this season’s hottest designers. We do not feel sorry for her. >> Read more

Penelope Bagieu

2/1/2010 8:10:00 AM

Penelope Bagieu, a 26-year-old Parisian-born illustrator for such clients as Nestle, Crédit Agricole and EDF, has become a Paris name through her blog, which has led to three incredibly successful comic books: Ma Vie Est Toute à Fait Fascinante, Josephine and Josephine 2: Même Pas Mal. >> Read more

Mireille Guiliano

1/25/2010 9:00:00 AM

Courtesy Mireille Guiliano.

Mireille Guiliano’s life has been devoted to representing both French women and French luxury. Marriage to a US CEO (of the New York Institute of Technology) brought her from Paris to New York. There she helped found Clicquot, Inc., the US importer of Veuve Clicquot champagne; she also became a senior executive at luxury conglomerate LVMH. Her work life has always combined high pressure and continuous travel.

In 2005, however, she found time to write French Women Don't Get Fat, a book that achieved record international sales. When its follow-up, French Women for All Seasons, proved just as popular, Guiliano retired from decades of corporate life and became a full-time author. >> Read more

Agnès Catherine Poirier

1/11/2010 11:28:00 AM

Of all the writers trying to decode Parisian women, few succeed with the insight of journalist Agnès Catherine Poirier. >> Read more

Juliette Dragon

1/4/2010 9:30:00 AM

By Amy BarnardGilles Rammant Juliette Dragon is the sobriquet of the creative director of the Cabaret des Filles de Joie, an avant-garde burlesque troupe enjoying much popularity in Paris. Not content with straight burlesque, Juliette and her filles incorporate live fire acts and more than just a little soupçon of feisty rock-and-roll attitude.

Yasmine Tarasewicz

12/18/2009 10:38:00 AM