France

Film & TVMeet Lucie Zhang, the star of ‘sexy’ new hookup film Paris, 13th District

MusicAfter seven years of hell, Stromae is back

Life & CultureWhy is it so funny to make everything a little French? Une exposé

FashionThe new guard of young designers interrogating cultural identity

Politics#SciencesPorcs: France’s students speak out on sexual violence

Life & Culture#MeTooInceste: people in France are sharing horrific experiences of abuse

PoliticsParis City Council has been fined €90,000 for appointing too many women

Film & TVGo see Les Misérables, a timely eye on police brutality in modern Paris

FashionChanel joins the fight against COVID-19 by making face masks

FashionChanel, Prada, and Burberry promise to be more sustainable

MusicListen to Cassius’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Art & PhotographyFacebook finally settles censorship dispute over Courbet ‘vagina painting’

MusicCassius’ Philippe Zdar has died age 50

FashionFrance bans the destruction of unsold luxury merch

Life & CultureWatch this moving short film imagining a future with Snapchat filters IRL

Art & PhotographyAnish Kapoor is using crayons from the Calais migrant camp to help refugees

MusicMeet Aya Nakamura, the French-Malian singer putting fuckboys on blast

Art & PhotographyFrance will return artworks to the west African state of Benin

Film & TVWes Anderson is shooting his 10th feature film in France

Art & PhotographyFrance is giving young people €500 each to enjoy the arts

Art & PhotographyPeter Lindbergh & Dior Beauty select their favourite emerging photographers

Film & TV120 BPM: the magical must-see movie about Aids, love and clubbing in Paris

PoliticsThe French government is actually considering decriminalising all drugs

FashionYour first look at the new Jacquemus exhibition