Dreamscape

This was a truly Parisian find. By that I mean something happened upon randomly, without intention, in a perfectly serendipitous moment of discovery. Occasionally, when you're not looking too hard, Paris reveals a glimpse of its true self, as far from Eiffel Towers and crepes au chocolat as I heart Paris t-shirts are from Yves Saint Laurent.

In one of the elegant covered galeries that snake surreptitiously through the city, filtering tourists and gawpers alike, the tiny Galerie Moisan houses the latest collection from French artist Christian Benoit. Delicate, luminous and deliciously eerie, the collection of paintings represent a forgotten landscape, abandoned by inhabitants and ravaged by time. Done purely from imagination, the fictional spaces form an interior landscape fascinating in its detail and simplicity.

We stood gazing interminally, lost in Benoit's dream world, and when the kindly owner switched off the lights to enable us to see better, the paintings seemed to glow with an internal luminosity.

Galerie Martine Moisan

08, Galerie Vivienne

75002 Paris

0033 (0)1 42 97 46 65

www.galerie-moisan-benoit.com

Rock On

Big cars, bigger hair and the New York skyline, this smoking hot shoot for French Revue des Modes takes guys and dolls to a whole new level.

Photography by Thierry LeGoues, fashion editor, Marcell Rocha

Magazine Junkie

On a jaunt to Colette to soak up the scene, I got sucked into their carefully edited magazine section and was instantly hooked. What caught my eye was Magazine, the "style, media and creative industry's" own special rag which gives the skinnie on industry trends, movers and shakers, and most importantly, other magazines. It's also has super slick art direction and great photography.

http://www.magazinemagazine.fr/

What Kate did next...

I've officially joined the Kate Lanphear cult. The monotone palette, the hair, the leather, the studs - what's not to love? The style director of ELLE US has gathered a ferocious following, thanks to a look that can only be described as "fierce", and not in a Beyonce way.

For the slightly more obsessed, check out http://fearlanphear.blogspot.com/

Master Class

In an age of digital wizardry, old-school photography, where things remained untampered with, never ceases to amaze. I've just discovered the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, whose time in Paris (1925-1936) and New York (1936-1985) provided some incredible images, not least for the times they were in. Apparently, he would wander the streets of Paris and NY, taking pictures of passersby, the original street photographer.

(The above have all be attributed to André Kertész)