Pierre Berge
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Marrakesh: An unfaltering sense of place and people
- Long Haul
- March 9, 2019, 06:00
“I believe that Marrakesh ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, mak(...)

In Paris, a clearance sale for the boho set
- Fine Art & Antiques
- October 14, 2017, 00:00
At 73, Jacques Grange is cleaning house. For half a century, the French interior designer has not only created homes for Yves Saint Laurent, Sofia Cop(...)

Pierre Berge, driving force behind Yves Saint Laurent label, dies at 86
- Europe
- September 8, 2017, 16:23
Pierre Berge, an influential French businessman, philanthropist and gay rights activist who helped build the fashion empire of his long-time lover Yve(...)

François Fillon stages defiant rally as his campaign struggles
- Europe
- March 5, 2017, 18:00
François Fillon won his gamble on Sunday when some 40,000 people braved wind and rain to stage a show of support for the beleaguered conservative pres(...)

Fashion forward: Three Irish designers on surviving a tough industry
- Fashion
- November 26, 2016, 03:00
Don O’Neill recalls his upbringing in Ballyheigue, Co Kerry as nothing short of magical. “The castle behind my house is haunted,” he says. “ We woul(...)

Flaubert’s travel diary goes up for auction for €600,000
- Books
- November 7, 2016, 11:36
The handwritten manuscript is page after page of scratched-out notes, smudges, comments and ink blots that reveal just how arduous the French novelis(...)

Eileen Gray, thoroughly modern maker
- People
- November 29, 2014, 06:00
Brownswood House, a 19th-century estate in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and No 21 Rue Bonaparte in Paris’s Latin Quarter share one thing in common – Ei(...)

Steel-cube Soulages museum honours France’s ‘outrenoir’ painting master
- World
- May 31, 2014, 01:00
Some 300 protesting farmers, steel workers and temporary entertainers confronted riot police in the small hilltop town of Rodez, in south-central Fran(...)

Yves Saint Laurent
- Film
- March 21, 2014
You would be surprised if any film about Yves Saint Laurent ended up looking like something le chat (...)

All about Yves
- Culture
- March 26, 2013, 06:00
In the early 1950s, a young Algerian man arrived in Paris, armed with an array of fashion sketches. Within a year, the 18-year-old student of haute(...)