André Malraux…

French… author…

Social… critic…

Flamboyant… statesman…

Captivates me…

My total admiration… for everything French in general… Paris… in particular… and mostly… for the enigmatic and powerful intellect of…

André Malraux…

Picasso…

Pablo Picasso…

A painter…

A force of nature…

A typical Spaniard – young, good looking, thin, dark, moody, with hypnotic black eyes.

Charismatic… magnetic…

He enchants… fascinates…

His work is amazing…

Brigitte Fontaine…

A riveting figure…

Was wearing…

A white kaftan-like robe…

With a black head-dress… worn in the Arabian fashion…

She was also carrying an ivory fan… which she kept fluttering around her expressive face with the huge brown

Carine Roitfeld…

“Belle de Jour”…

Vogue…

French Vogue’s… former editor-in-chief…

Writer…

“Drop-dead-chic…

French icon“…

Carine…

With her smudged… smoky eyes… long dark hair tumbling around her dramatic face…

Killer heels…

André Malraux…

French… author…

Social… critic…

Flamboyant… statesman…

Captivates me…

My total admiration… for everything French in general… Paris… in particular… and mostly… for the enigmatic and powerful intellect of…

André Malraux…

Gertrude Stein…

Writer… poet…

Art Collector…

A passion… for Art…

A formidable force…

Larger than life…

Literally…

Having recently read “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas“, written by Gertrude Stein, which was in fact her

Picasso…

Pablo Picasso…

A painter…

A force of nature…

A typical Spaniard – young, good looking, thin, dark, moody, with hypnotic black eyes.

Charismatic… magnetic…

He enchants… fascinates…

His work is amazing…

Ernest Hemingway…

“For Whom the Bell Tolls…

It tolls for thee”.

My fascination with Hemingway has always been… passionate… emotional… enduring…

Climbing a sligthly steep hill… we landed on the doorstep of Hemingway’s old Parisian

We have always been drawn to women in history who were beautiful, sensuous, and mysterious – who seduced and mesmerised men of power, intellect, and prestige.

“Cleopatra” – who famously seduced Anthony, was one – but the seductress who fascinates

T.E. Lawrence, the Magnificent “Arabian Knight”.

As we watch, with bated breath, the Arab world battling for the democratisation of their countries by getting rid of dictators, who were allowed to rule them, while they, the people, slept – our