Living Archives, Dialogues + Street Food – A Week in Paris
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Hi, and welcome to Paris, Puces. 🇫🇷
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♠️ Melbourne archival fashion freaks DotCOMME have brought their vast archive to a new permanent space in Saint-Germain, celebrating the creativity of Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Walter Van Beirendonck. Somewhere between archive, gallery and boutique, it treats fashion less as retail than as cultural memory. 1 rue de l’Abbaye
🍏 Madeleine de Sinéty finally gets the retrospective she deserves at the Jeu de Paume. Born into a Loire Valley château but instinctively drawn to the lives of workers, farmers and rural communities, the self-taught photographer spent a decade in the Breton village of Poilley, where she worked alongside local families while creating an extraordinary archive of more than 50,000 images documenting a France that has all but vanished.
🥖 Chez Alain Miam Miam, the Marais institution long beloved for its maximalist sandwich philosophy, opens a new spot at 3 rue Pastourelle tomorrow, just a block down from its current address. Staying true to Alain’s ingredient-driven approach to street food, while exploring a more traditional baguette format, SANDWICH expands beyond the grilled panini-style format that brought the local legend such unexpected viral fame.
🦅 Annette Messager, a defining figure in contemporary French art for more than five decades, takes over the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature with Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps. More than 80 works have invaded one of Paris’s most eccentric and enchanting museums, with crows, giant snails and other fantastical creatures taking up residence among its taxidermied collections. Outside, Caro Diario creative food studio has chosen the museum’s leafy courtyard for the fourth edition of its annual summer gelateria Il Gelato Museo (until 19 July).
🎒 Next weekend at the Puces, José Lamali welcomes Ephemera, Pascal Monfort’s archive of rare fashion books, magazines, invites and memorabilia, to his stand at the Marché Dauphine for a weekend residency, setting up a dialogue between his edit of DIY clothes born of youth culture and fashion’s inspiring paper trail.
See you there!
Kate
Welcome to Paris, Puces. on Substack. Expect the best of : LIFE IN PARIS 🇫🇷 each week, plus expert intel and tips from the world’s most epic FLEA MARKET✨ Art, Fashion, Design !
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