We’ll Have Always Paris

How does one write about Paris … a city that eludes capture at every turn? This was the insurmountable task before Alexandra Senes who provides the text for Paris Chic, a book published by Assouline. Together with photographer Oliver Pilcher, she offers readers a glimpse into the fabled city through stories from Parisians themselves—a term Senes herself finds amusing. “[It’s] absurd really … [for] Parisians are rarely from Paris,” she says.

“Paris has inspired the entire world,” Senes writes. Filmmakers, photographers and writers