Paris Match: Downtown: chic for boutiques
If Paris and Los Angeles and New York can offer small, trendy boutiques and street chic, why not San Diego?That's what Cynthia Lingg thought when she decided to open her own contemporary clothing store, Citi Ware in downtown San Diego in March.So did Alex Brodard and Sabrina Maras. In October the 24-year-old business partners chose downtown for their store, Catwalk, a blend of aggressive punk accessories and outrageous streetwear that appeals to the young.When Vilma...
Paris Match: Obituary: Roger Therond
BRITISH SPECIALISTS in French affairs like to have their moments of relaxation. "If you want to understand France," they say, "avoid books, television and the weighty articles in newspapers. Concentrate on the drawings by Plantu in Le Monde and the photographs in Paris-Match." This advice is welcome. And it makes us particularly conscious of the importance of Roger Therond, the long-time editor of Paris-Match and a specialist in...
Paris Match: France: Paris-Match boss denies reporter was spying in Afghanistan
Paris-Match chief Alain Genestar on Tuesday evening denied Taleban charges that the journalist Michel Peyrard, arrested earlier in the day near Jalalabad with his two Pakistani guides, was on a spying mission."It is very important to us," he said in remarks broadcast by Radio France Internationale, "to convey this fact, this evident fact, that Michel Peyrard is a journalist, a top reporter with Paris-Match, and that his mission on the ground had nothing...
Paris Match: PIONEER OF FRENCH PRESS DIES AT AGE 76
R. THEROND A FORCE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM
Roger Therond, who turned French magazine Paris Match into one of the world's best outlets for photojournalism, died June 16 at home in Paris, the magazine said. He was 76.Mr. Therond joined Paris Match in 1949, moving up the ranks until he became director and editor in chief in 1976. During his more than 50-year career, he was known for having an eye for picking breathtaking photos."We have lost one of the most original and captivating figures of the...
Paris Match: Obituary: Roger Therond: Brilliant editor who masterminded the rise and fall of quality journalism in Paris-Match
The name of Roger Therond, who has died at the age of 76, will forever be linked with that of Paris-Match, the French magazine whose fortunes he guided for more than four decades. His extraordinary instinct for identifying photographs that would seize the public's attention earned him the awed respect of professionals; Henri Cartier- Bresson referred to his "eye", and that became his nickname in the French press. Towards the end of his life, it...