Paris - Alfred Escot

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Biographie:
Marie-Hélène Brunet-Lhoste, Managing Editor of the Louis Vuitton City Guides since their inception, she never fails to be impressed with the incredible beauty of the citywhose secrets she continues to explore. A specialist in interior decoration and design, journalist Alfred Escot contributes to the "Mode de Vie" column in Grazia magazine and to the "News" pages of Ideat magazine. Hailing from the South of France and now based in Paris, he seeks out the movers and shakers who are influencing lifestyle choices today. Head of Vanity Fair's fashion and lifestyle section, Pierre Groppo cut his teeth working at Vogue. For over ten years he has been reporting and commenting on the comings and goings in the world of fashion, from the front row of the catwalks to backstage in the dressing rooms and the hair salons. Katia Kulawick-Assante, journalist and cool-hunter, she writes the "Vanity Confidential" newsletter for French Vanity Fair. For this edition of the Paris City Guide, she takes us behind the scenes in Paris's hotels. Pierre Léonforte writes a monthly column for French Vanity Fair magazine and contrebutes to Marie Claire Maison, Beaux-Arts Magazine and Schnock. He has worked as Editor-in-Chief of the Louis Vuitton City Guides, which he helped to create in 1998. He is the author of several books, including Jean-Paul Hévin : Délices de Chocolat, Paris des Hommes and Louis Vuitton : 100 Legendary Trunks, some of which have been published in Italian and English. Marie Maertens, The ultimate Parisienne, she has her Linger on the pulse of the museum and gallery world. She is also a joumalist, art critic and independent exhibition curator, notably for "Desdémone, entre désir et désespoir" (Institut du Monde Arabe). She writes regularly for Connaissance des arts magazine and AMA (Art Media Agency), contributes to collective works, and has served as a jury member. Laurence Marot Specializing in the world of beverages, she seeks out the best drinking dens, the new trends and tomorrow's star mixologists for both mass-media and professional publications. She has also authored a collection of books on rum, whisky and gin cocktails (Editions Tana). Hugo de Saint-Phalle spends his life dashing between restaurants and cinemas. For TV magazines of the Prisma Media group, he covers all the latest news in the world of film, while for Figaroscope and Fooding, among others, he reviews Parisian restaurants - anonymously, of course. François Simon, Gaulté Millau, Cuisines et Vins de France, Figaroscope. Wielding his formidable expense account, he has written for M Le Monde and Air France magazin, while freelancing for TV, before hosting the cuit TV show Paris Dernière. As an anonymous restaurant reviewer he contributes to many platforms, including his own website (simonsays), and has published over forty books. Founded in 1991, Tendance floue (literally, a tendency to be out of focus) is a group of thirteen photographers who have created a collective with the aim of working together to open up new perspectives and diversify the ways that contemporary photography can represent the world. In addition to their personal projects, these photographers nurture their collective photographic work by comparing images, assemblages and combinations, their pooled results giving rire to completely new material. Bertrand Meunier, with its cinematic dimension, his work is deliberately freed from raw information. After years of building up his "Erased" series on post-industrial China, Bertrand Meunier is currently working on a survey of people in France who suffer in various ways. He is also developing a parallel "psycho-geography" photographic project about Asian megacities.