La Vie Creative

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Lisa Czarina Michaud is an American novelist. In 2009, she followed in the footsteps of her late jazz performing grandmother and moved to the City of Light. She has lived in many arrondissements in Paris before settling in a riverside village in the Seine-et-Marne region where she now lives with her husband, son, and cat Le Tigre. Her debut coming-of-age novel Slanted and Disenchanted came out las...

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Inspired by nature, our shared stories and the mythology of the world, Alana Clohessy creates her imaginings using graphite, paint and thread. Her interpretation of everyday things catapults the viewer to a world of whimsy and desire. Alana was born in Ireland and to where her heart will always go back to. In 2012, she emigrated to Vancouver B.C. where she lived for seven years and worked internat...

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Gabrielle is a 27 years old artist.  After a fashion design school, she decided to experiment with drawings by using any support she could find. Her long trips as a model were filled with loneliness and discoveries that she lays on notebooks, windows, and napkins of hotel rooms were her notebooks. Cardboards, walls, and papers are covered by her imaginary world. Her stories are light and authentic...

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Janis Commentz is a Mojave Desert painter known for her color-intense palette and loose brush strokes. She is a third generation Los Angeles artist who began drawing and painting early in life. As the daughter and niece of artists, she was surrounded by art materials and enjoyed trips to galleries and museums, as well as seasonal trips to the California coastal art colonies of  Laguna Beach and Ca...

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Lady Christina Consolé (Chrissy to her friends) is the creator and founder of Parisian Niche, your corner of the world for all things Parisian and French flaired. A native New Yorker, whose main residence is still on New York City’s famously picturesque Upper East Side, Chrissy has been fortunate enough to have lived, worked, and studied in Paris and traveled extensively through France, Europe, an...

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Meredith Detko is a Californian native working as a marketing consultant and entrepreneur in Paris for the past 10 years. After graduating from UC Berkeley and HEC Paris and then spending years out of alignment in the business world, she embarked on a spiritual and wellness journey that led to deep physical and emotional healing. In November she launched Aquerone, a concept store that combines her...

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Molly Maine is a fine art painter who moved to Paris to study painting and drawing at Studio Escalier, an art school in Montmartre. In her studio in Montmartre, she makes autobiographical paintings that use imagery of interior and exterior spaces, reflection, still life, and portraiture. A Californian by birth, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she majored in art and literature...

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BORN IN 1995 IN NORMANDY AND NOW BASED IN PARIS, ETIENNE’S WORK CAN BE DEFINED BY TWO UNIVERSES. FROM ONE SIDE HIS FIGURATIVE UNIVERSE THAT HE ILLUSTRATES WITH FEMININE SCENES FULL OF POETRY AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, HIS ABSTRACT SIDE WHERE HE LET HIMSELF GO AND HIS SPONTANEITY REIGNS. AFTER HIS FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION IN A GALLERY THAT CONCLUDED AS A SOLD OUT, THE ARTIST DECIDED TO TAKE THE FULL CONTR...

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Khuyen Do is an American creative consultant based in Paris, specializing in luxury and contemporary fashion as well as lifestyle brands. With an international and bilingual background (French & English), working with French and European brands comes just as naturally as working with any American brand. Past and current projects have consisted of everything from PR, to art direction, styling,...

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Christine Betts is an Australian writer who left her heart in Paris years ago! Her first two novels and a collection of short stories are all set in France. Current works in progress are set in California, England, and Australia. Christine trained in education and the visual arts. She spent many years creating Australian-made gift ware and art for interior design projects. Writing took centre-stag...

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Born in Rabat-Morocco Dino / Tarek moved at the age of 18 to France for studying History of art, the studied Art and finally Japanese language and civilization. First Singing encounter -First came to Paris and lived right down the stairs of Sacré-Coeur, -Saw a singer with a guitar and decided to do the same. -Spent years busking on the stairs of Montmartre singing all kind of songs. -Performed for...

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Whitney Marin is a paris-based digital producer and international distribution salesperson at ARTE France. She has previously worked as an Associate Producer with Brooklyn-based boutique production companies, Tru Films and Critical Findings. She additionally worked on American Documentary's Production and Programming team for America ReFramed. In 2021, she produced a bilingual web series feat...

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