Les filles, avons-nous la tête trop bien faite pour espérer trouver un homme, un vrai?

It’s Katrin Bennhold’s turn this week to be translated in French in the Figaro’s selection of NYT articles. What a team at the IHT in Paris, right?! THE IMPORTANT THING IS; there are more and more reports attesting that our generation of young ladies, who’ve worked hard for successful careers, are bound to remain single. So unfair, and yet so true! (so it seems anyway.)

Read the article in EN here:
Keeping Romance Alive at the Age of Female Empowerment Katrin Bennhold, IHT, 30 November 2010

Pour vous, amis Frenchies, voici l’article en FR scanné!
Le Prix d’une Carrière au Féminin part 1 – part 2

=> Oli, thanks for your comment on FB: “There’s some stuff that’s just straight-up twisted.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_porter_a_call_to_men.html

so true… and so s(b)ad…

Here it is! Driving past this boutique by the roadside in a village of the French Massif Central, I simply couldn’t resist! Would Anna Wintour approve of this?(!) I’m always impressed by the way French ladies care about style and elegance, be they in dear Lutecia or in the smallest village of the “Province”. Watch out indeed! Elegance is not about fashion… Would Anna Wintour approve of that too?(!)

Enjoy the latest Vogue, and why not its French edition for once?!

Stephen Clarke wrote God Save Les Françaises but men too are into fashion in the Hexagone! Take flip flops & Southwestern espadrilles for instance; two worlds apart…!

C’est l’été 🙂 Enjoy: Êtes-vous TONG ou ESPADRILLE?
Sébastien Le Fol
Le Figaro, 30 July 2010

no comment – just what I like in graphic design

Graphic design at Central St Martin\’s

Post by Denis Carré, pretty interesting on the Web 2.0. influence on courtship!
Read!

Good wrap up Denis!
Actually our generation is pretty stuck in both a post-1960s and post-postmodernist context. The apprehension and concept of time has changed with our generation. We live longer, we project anything we do on the long term, and therefore we’re scared to fail – especially in the old western EU paradigm which forbids failure instead of considering it as a learning step. The peace & love era, as well as the sea, sex & sun age are long gone. And with pressure on our shoulders, our generation is so freaked out to let go & fail that it’s somewhat easier to succeed with one’s professional career than with one’s personal life, and thus relationship. Hence many of us have focused on their professional success and find themselves home alone late at night, sometimes venturing on virtual social networks online! At the dawn of the 21st century, it seems our best pal is our laptop!

Just a few thoughts anyway. “my two cents”, for what it’s worth.