I have news: Next month, I’m opening a brick and mortar cabinet of curiosities in Paris. It’s only been a few months in the making – a rather spontaneous decision spurred by the lease on...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/05/03/messy-nessys-cabinet-a-little-shop-in-paris/
Remember that beautiful Parisian village featured in the Oscar-winning 1950s short film The Red Balloon? Well we’re sorry to report that it was almost entirely levelled by the French governme...
In the dappled light coming through the trees, a jovial bohemian crowd have gathered to dance and dally at the Moulin de la Galette, one of the many windmills that originally stood at the north...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/10/20/postcards-from-the-last-windmill-in-paris/
In the mood for something cozy and pastoral for fall in Paris? Something “cottagecore” – internet slang for all that is effervescently au natural. Think gingham tablecloths, and cottages ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/08/27/how-to-do-cottagecore-in-paris/
It’s a phone-less world down there in the underground lair of Les Chandelles, the infamous “club échangiste” – and something to be appreciated in itself before we get into the stuff yo...
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https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/05/15/collectors-addresses-in-paris/
In Physiopolis, life was better in the buff. Or at least in a bikini, which was as close as one could legally get to public nudity in 1930s Paris. It was here, on an isolated sun-baked island o...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/05/10/wet-hot-parisian-summer-a-lost-1930s-nudist-utopia/
She was the kind of woman who never belonged to anyone but herself. At least, when it came to love. But for Natalie Clifford Barney, life overflowed with colour, creativity, and passion in Pari...
Here at MessyNessyChic, our motto is Don’t be a Tourist in Paris, but what about being a naked tourist in Paris?! The topic came up (don’t ask how) and we were curious– as summer appro...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/04/17/a-brief-guide-to-going-naked-in-paris/
Parisians often talk about the great travesty that was the loss of Les Halles, a legendary food market in the heart of Paris, fondly referred to as “the belly of Paris”, a seemingly indestr...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/10/05/searching-for-a-lost-wine-village-in-paris/
In celebration of the release of MessyNessyChic’s first book, “Don’t be a Tourist in Paris“, I’m dedicating today’s 13 Things to the city that inspired it all. 1. A French beekeeper...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/07/03/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-ccxlii/
I embarked on an off-beat hotel trail and wandered the cobbled streets of the city in search of alluring homes away from home in Paris. I suppose this little guide might also come in handy fr...
In Paris’ city of the dead, where winding cobblestone pathways have their own street signs, graves look like small gothic houses and the likes of Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde ha...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/09/17/the-x-rated-paris-grave/
La Seine, immortalized by artists and adored by lovers dangling their feet over the quay, harbours a dark secret. Under the fifth and thirteenth arrondissements grumbles la Bièvre, the Seine�...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/12/09/hunting-the-lost-river-of-paris/
This weekend I spent Friday night with le boyfriend doing what any normal girl likes to do: scoping out derelict buildings. We were having a drink on the Seine in the 13th arrondissement when h...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/09/10/abandoned-paris-surviving-through-art/
Paris and New York: both have islands, both have Statues of Liberty, crazy people on the metro, and unbeknownst to most, they both have parks in the sky. Until a little while ago, I was under t...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/07/06/paris-secret-park-in-the-sky-the-original-high-line/