Paris Ready-to-wear Fashion week is ending today. A little snap from the Jardin des Tuileries where Chloe showed its new designs to a super stylish crowd yesterday. Pictured here, British designer Kesh.

Sydney-born Micky Green is filling concert halls and radio waves with her jazzy folky songs, her platine locks and her off-the-wall style are filling magazine pages. Not in Australia, in France! She left Motherland to go modelling overseas at 18 and has now settled in Paris to follow her true passion, la music. She admits she is afraid to play her music in her home country. You can’t be shy anymore Micky ! The words have slipped out. Oups.
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'Here, the scenery becomes the character and relates contemporary tales and legends laced with sophisticated seductions, like a latter-day Cecil Beaton, Lewis Carroll or J.M. Barrie.' These are the words of French designer Christian Lacroix and curator du jour of one of the greatest photography festivals in Europe Les Rencontres d’Arles about British fashion photographer Tim Walker. This man is a kind of a wizard : he grows cupcakes trees, breeds some pink and green cats and his bathroom looks like a garden. Dreamy craftsman, this regular contributor to all the high-class fashion magazines insists on the fact that there is no digital manipulation in his pictures. His Wonderland is to visit at the moment in Arles, France or in London at the Design Museum.

Those ballet pumps were put on the map when on the lovely feet of iconic Audrey Hepburn or Nouvelle-Vague Brigitte Bardot in the 50’s. This year, Repetto, the famous French brand for tutus or anything needed to release your inner Gisele is turning 60 but still look like a light prancing ballerina teen. And what better to celebrate the birthday girl than asking a bunch of cool A-listers to customize the classic little flat ballet shoe and make an exhibition out of it? It-girl Chloë Sevigny gives it a serious twist designing a platform one with the punky look of a creeper. Kim Gordon, the Sonic Youth musician scribbles an autograph next to a cat-eared anarchist sign (imagination and its drifts…) straight on the leather. French designer Jean-Paul Gautier plays around his signature sailor tee for a very frenchy tutu dress. The exhibition is currently touring the world. In October, there will be an auction at UNESCO headquarters. All the profits of the sales of those très chic shoes will help the development of dance classes for children from blighted areas.

French band Cocoon took a fair risk when they decided to sing in English, the official pop-and-rock mother tongue, two years ago. Was France ready for such a betrayal of their oh-so protected Gallic words? Lately, more and more French bands have decided to assume out-loud their attraction for Shakespeare’s language. Marc and Morgane, 22 and 19, spread their melodic soft songs with ukulele sprinkling and poetic twists –or maybe is it a very personal and sassy use of the foresaid English language, the very language at the heart of this very hot issue- « I feel like a pop-corn » is whispering among others whimsical lyrics all-charmingly-cheeky Marc while an all-blonde-fringed Morgane is hitting a gentle piano note. Cocoon has released their first album All my friends died in plane crash in Australia last January. More here.

The Library of NSW in Sydney is now hosting once again the World Press Award Exhibition, a high-class photographic time capsule of 2007 with a range of pictures going from news to sports or entertainment. Among the list of lucky/deserving winners this year, there is Andrew Quilty a young talented Australian photographer who did a black and white photo essay on Maxwelton annual race in outback Queensland. “ I had about 10 messages waiting on my phone all saying congratulations. I took me about 3 messages to work out what they were all talking about” he recalls. “It wasn't something that I thought I would achieve for a very long time.” On May 22nd, Andrew Quilty will be to the Library to talk about his work. A rare opportunity to have an explanation straight from the artist himself. (Free but booking essential.)

This picture reminds me of the dream I had the other night; me, all Matrix-style, going grocery shopping flying from one line to another, picking a shampoo bottle here, a loaf of bread there, like the superhero I am inside. In the morning, when dragging myself out of the bed, the gravity theory makes it clear, and painful, that life is, but a dream.
But this picture is actually completely real. No tricks, no magical effect whatsoever. Just a good old film camera, a very nippy photographer and hell of good hip hop dancers. From April 5th as part of FotoFreo festival, Perth Centre of Photography is hosting Hypers, an exhibition by French photographer Denis Darzacq. His general work is about the place of citizen in democratic society. Hypers is following World Press-winning series The Fall, where Darzacq gave his own visual reflection on 2005 French suburbs riots. The exhibition lasts for a month. Go, run, FLY!