La Vie Creative

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My name is Carol and I am the founder of Bolle di Natura. I was born & grew up in Italy & now living in Paris after spending 13 years of my life in NYC working in the Corporate world. I have a master in Economics and Business and I worked for many years in Finance and Accounting in Real Estate Development & Construction Management. In the past I made soap sporadically with the intentio...

Since the fire of Notre Dame, the great bells have remained silent except for a few monumental occasions.  On April 15, 2019, as the fire spread from the roof and toward the facade there was a tiny window of time that almost led to the destruction of the cathedral. The bells hang in the wooden maze of the belfry of the towers. If the fire reached them, the timbers would quickly burn and the heavy...

Dana McMahan is a storyteller, designer, and creator of magical experiences. An award winning freelance journalist, she writes about travel, food, design and other good things in life. She's also a serial renovator, redesigning living spaces from the ground up, and a seasoned hospitality entrepreneur who creates experiences ranging from one hour walking tours to multi-month stays. She lives i...

Paris in Love go hand in hand. From the art on the walls, marble statues in the parks, or just lovers walking down the street everywhere you look there is love.  Over the last centuries that love has been captured on film and in marble, from the iconic images of Robert Doiseau and Willy Ronis to the sensual relationship between Camille Claudel & Rodin. These are just a few of the loveliest ima...

Has been a world citizen and lived amongst various cultures since her childhood in West Africa. A traveler between many worlds, her paintings are portals into other realms and offers the viewer a detailed glimpse into her inner landscapes - imagery that has been inspired by various expanded states of consciousness such as dream state and visions glimpsed during shamanic journeys in the Amazonian R...

In this week's newest episode of Paris History Avec a Hemingway on La Vie Creative podcast, we go into Part 4 in the series of the Mona Lisa.  The birth of one of the most recognized women in the world, the Mona Lisa began over five hundred years ago.  In the five centuries since the painting began, she has found her way into the headlines, especially after her kidnapping in 1911. On January...

Anna, Coach for expats in Paris. Originally from Manchester in the UK, I moved to France over 10 years ago and 8 years in Paris where I came to work at the British Embassy where I stayed for 4 years. It was a great experience for me where I grew personally and professionally but I know for me, and for many others, the transition to living in Paris has not been as easy as I thought it would be. I t...

In part 3 of our series on the Mona Lisa we explore a little deeper on who exactly the thief was and the woman portrayed in the portrait.  Who is Lisa del Giocondo? It’s hard to even imagine that she was a real person outside the poplar panel she was painted on. Born on June 15, 1479 in Florence she married at 15 years old and at 24 was seated in front of Leonardo da Vinci and the rest is as we sa...

I was a born an natural intuitive and medium from a long list of intuitive women. I learned to use tarot as a tool for being able to process thought, and ideas in order to help humanity. When people ask me what I do, I usually tell them, I’m universally employed. So this is who I am this is who I’ve always been and I’ve always been very clear about who I am and what my purpose on this planet is. I...

She doesn’t need an introduction and her face is known in every corner of the globe, but do we really know the story of the Mona Lisa and why she is so famous?  In part one of our series on the story of the Mona Lisa we shared her life on the run and the theft that made her famous. 400 years after the master Leonardo da Vinci painted her she appeared on the front page of every newspaper in the wor...

Jonathan is a French-Mauritian queer singer-songwriter/arranger/composer who writes alternative folk-pop music anchored by “smooth vocals and rich, warm instrumentations” (Buro 24/7 Singapore, July 2015) likened to Sufjan Stevens, Regina Spektor and Kings of Convenience. After a childhood and teenage years spent in Mauritius, he lived 15 years in Singapore where he released an album, an EP and a c...

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There are many designers that have shaped fashion in France. However, before there were Dior and Chanel there was Jeanne Lanvin. Lanvin was a designer that paved the way for all the others to come after her.  Jeanne was born on January 1, 1867 in Paris at 35 Rue Mazarine. She was the oldest of eleven children to parents Bernard Lanvin and Sophie Blanche Deshayes. Jeanne got a job working at a hat...

Omer Majiauk (born 7 October 1992) is a British artist best known for his large silkscreen paintings.   Majiauk's artistic endeavours include painting, photography and screen printing. Best known for his large scale silk screen paintings of wordly subjects, Majiauk paints society in which he sees it; idealised. Vivid imagery is created through the use of primary colours and naive brushwork. F...

Her love life after Boy was one horrible decision after another. In 1922 she met the Duke of Westminster Hugh Richard Grosenor or Bender. He was a huge anti-semite that gave her jewels and even a home in London. Their relationship lasted ten years. Then there was Paul Irbe, another anti-semite who started an ultra right wing newsletter against Jews and foreigners in France. Coco paid for the publi...

Born in Fairborn, Ohio and raised in California Josiah Woodson started his musical journey under the tutelage of his mentor Khalil Shaheed in Oakland Ca at the age of 14. Beginning in Shaheed’s own Oaktown Jazz Workshop among the now prominent musicians like Ambrose Akinmusire, Dayna Stevens, Jonathan Finlayson, and Geoffrey Countrymen, Josiah later went on to complete his undergraduate degree at...

Johanna Bonger van-Gogh a name you may not know, but without her, we would never know her brother-in-law, Vincent. Married to Theo van Gogh, art dealer, and brother to Vincent van Gogh for less than two very short years. When Vincent and Theo died just six months apart, she was left with an infant and an apartment filled with paintings. Told they were worthless and to toss them out, her love and d...

Liba WS Franco-American www.artwork-liba.com https://www.facebook.com/Liba.art https://www.instagram.com/libawaringstambollion/ www.dreamsanddivinities.com Liba, a multi-faceted artist, was born to American parents but grew up in Southeast Asia before making Paris her home in 1993. Her art spans painting, writing, design, and curatorial work, with a focus on Ecology, the Sacred Feminine, and mysti...

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David Sauzay Born in 1972, David Sauzay began playing the saxophone at the age of 8 in Roger Michel Frederic's class. In 1988, it was during an exchange with the Doncaster music school in England led by John Ellis that he decided to become a jazz musician. He then studied at the Lyon Conservatory, at the EMN in Villeurbanne with Gilbert Dojat and at the AIMRA with Jacques Helmus. He had the o...

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Annelies Danielle Schubert was born in Santiago, Chile to a Chilean father and a Bolivian mother, and with both cultures very accentuated throughout her upbringing. She arrived in Paris, where she is based to date, in order to pursue an education in the Arts and graduated with a BFA from Paris College of Art. Since graduating, she has taken part in various exhibitions, and has organized and curate...