Kim Willsher

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

Do you need a kitchen mixer, a drill, a tent or a raclette machine? Perhaps you have a bread machine, an ice-cream maker or a toastie maker in the cupboard gathering dust? If the answer to either question is “yes”, Lucie Basch has a solution. The French entrepreneur and pioneer of a hugely successful anti-food waste app is now turning her attention to a different problem: the simultaneous underuse and overconsumption of everyday household objects.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kim Willsher

A unique Le Birkin handbag, the only one of its kind made for the British-born singer and actor Jane Birkin, is to go on sale in Paris. The prototype model of the iconic Hermès bag, which Birkin used for nine years, is expected to fetch a six-figure sum at auction next month. Well-used and still bearing traces of the stickers Birkin irreverently stuck on the smooth black leather, the bag comes complete with the nail clippers she attached inside.

2 weeks ago | uk.style.yahoo.com | Kim Willsher

Kim Willsher in Paris12 June 2025 at 10:25 am·3-min readA unique Le Birkin handbag, the only one of its kind made for the British-born singer and actor Jane Birkin, is to go on sale in Paris. The prototype model of the iconic Hermès bag, which Birkin used for nine years, is expected to fetch a six-figure sum at auction next month.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Kim Willsher

Open-air concerts, Wolfgang Tillmans at the Pompidou Centre and the site of Inspector Maigret's favourite watering hole Music stars including 50 Cent, Mary J Blige (pictured), Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and golden oldies Diana Ross, Neil Young, Santana, and Lionel Richie are performing in Paris in the next few weeks. Just as in so many other cities across the world, gig-going has become an expensive business aimed at older audiences keen on a nostalgia hit.

3 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Kim Willsher

That surprise swipe by his wife left France’s president looking ridiculous to his people Historically, France has had a laissez-faire attitude towards politicians’ private lives. So-called “Anglo-Saxon” sex scandals baffle them and foreign journalists are warned questions stop at the bedroom door. The Socialist president François Mitterrand led a double life with a secret mistress and child, who were no secret to the country’s self-censoring media but were hidden from the public.