Veteranendag gaat zaterdag met de „voor evenementen bekende maatregelen” door. Dat zegt een woordvoerder van het Nationaal Comité Veteranendag desgevraagd.
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Jonathan Anderson’s golden touch is on display in Paris with mix of metallics, brooches and ripped jeans
Fashion brands were tuned to the weather forecast in Paris in the run-up to the menswear shows this week – and aware temperatures would reach 40C on Wednesday. This weekend a decision was made – the Christian Dior show, originally scheduled for the afternoon, would be moved to 9am, to avoid the heat of the day.
The change in time certainly made the experience more palatable – as did (in possibly a fashion-week first) the cool towels handed to guests on arrival, umbrellas to block out the sun and personalised fans on seats. In the grounds of the grand Musée Nissim de Camondo, which is under renovation to reopen in 2030, those in the garden even had the benefit of the occasional breeze.
Continue reading...Update the classic outfit when you want to look slick and office-appropriate … in a low-key, faux-effortless kind of way
Jeans and a nice top is a tried-and-tested formula when it comes to dressing for an evening out. It is the little black dress of real life. A local dinner, an outing to the theatre or cinema, a birthday gathering in the pub: these do not require a cocktail dress. Still, you want to look nice. So you wear jeans and a nice top.
If jeans and a nice top is the real life LBD, then jeans and a jacket is the normcore power suit. It is the no-nonsense, I’ve-got-this formula you need for daytime. It is an outfit that comes together in seconds and keeps on looking good and feeling comfortable for hours. It is grown up but not stiff, alpha but not snooty. It is – and this is important in our capricious climate, and when your commute can take you straight from overheated train carriage to chiller-cabinet level air conditioning – pitched neither too warm nor too cold, and offers flexibility. (You are wearing something under the jacket, you see. We will get to that.)
Continue reading...Begun in 1982, the festival is now a magnet for Black Britons, who spill across Paris enjoying genres from amapiano to zouk. But can it resist commercialisation – and is it getting too big?
At 4.45pm in Châtelet, central Paris, a man leans out of his third-floor balcony, blasting EDM from his speakers. A makeshift cardboard sign is strapped to his decks, detailing his Instagram account in capital letters. On both sides of him, his friends hype him up from opened windows, and on the ground a crowd has started to gather. Completely spontaneous, slightly ridiculous and entirely alive, this is typical of Fête de la Musique.
Born in 1982 as a free, France-wide, government-sanctioned initiative to encourage citizens to pick up instruments and play for their neighbours, the Fête has long since outgrown its origins. Word of mouth, TikTok and the growing allure of French language music have propelled it to heights no arts ministry could have planned for, and Black Francophone culture has become the heartbeat of the weekend. Bouyon, shatta, zouk, French Afrobeats, trap, hip-hop and R&B are the sounds that have travelled farthest, enticing fresh crowds of Brits, predominantly Black, to Paris every June.
Continue reading...Lilies making a vivid comeback alongside foreign-imposed flag, as younger generation wrestles with national identity
Before each game in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s World Cup adventure, Sarajevo has blossomed with primary colours – and two distinct flags.
One is the national flag dating to 1998: blue and yellow diagonal halves emblazoned with a slanting line of white stars. The other has golden lilies on a blue shield set against a white background, and has a far deeper history, steeped in centuries of complexity. Its striking resurgence as a national symbol, showcased during Bosnia’s first World Cup for 12 years, comes with its own powerful message.
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Op de Trambaan (N491) in Strijen is woensdagmiddag een auto in het water beland. De bestuurder van de auto, die volgens de politie de enige inzittende was, wist zelf uit de auto te komen. De weg is in één richting dicht vanwege de berging van de auto.
GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - Het wereldwijde risico op ebola blijft laag, zegt de directeur van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, nadat woensdag een ebolageval in Frankrijk werd bevestigd.
Het gaat om een arts die terugkeerde uit de Democratische Republiek Congo, het epicentrum van de huidige ebolauitbraak. Air France heeft inmiddels vastgesteld dat het slachtoffer met een van hun vluchten naar Frankrijk is gereisd.
Volgens Ghebreyesus herinnert de besmetting "ons aan de risico's waarmee hulpverleners in de frontlinie te maken hebben".
Opschaling
De topman benadrukte dat er verdere opschaling nodig is om de uitbraak van de zeldzame bundibugyovariant van het virus in te dammen. Ondanks de goede vooruitgang "blijft de uitbraak de reactie overtreffen", waarschuwde Ghebreyesus.
In Congo zijn vooralsnog 1094 bevestigde gevallen van ebola geregistreerd, waaronder 277 sterfgevallen. In buurland Oeganda is er sprake van twintig bevestigde gevallen en twee doden.
