New Year’s Eve Trends 2023: Sequins, Lace, and Extravagance Dominate End of Year Celebrations

New Year’s Eve Trends 2023: Sequins, Lace, and Extravagance Dominate End of Year Celebrations

If the “quiet luxury” trend dominated 2023, the end of year celebrations advocate extravagance and sparkle. Exit discreet elegance, the new year’s trend is spectacular. Sequins, sequins, lace and other feathers are invading social networks. As evidenced by Kylie Jenner’s big night dress for Christmas Eve. The Kylie Cosmetics founder wore a long dress adorned … Read more

Christmas in New York City: Celebrating Tradition and Innovation at Rockefeller Center and Beyond

Christmas in New York City: Celebrating Tradition and Innovation at Rockefeller Center and Beyond

A few days before December 25, our teams went to New York. A city that has no equal when it comes to celebrating Christmas. Incredible decorations, century-old traditions, ice rinks all over the city,… In the Big Apple, you can celebrate the end of year celebrations in a very traditional way, but also in a … Read more

Rising Trend of Second-Hand Christmas Gifts at Emmaüs in Escalquens Near Toulouse

Rising Trend of Second-Hand Christmas Gifts at Emmaüs in Escalquens Near Toulouse

Toys, books, board games, clothes… The shelves at Bric-à-Brac Emmaüs in Escalquens, near Toulouse, are getting in tune with Christmas as the holidays approach. And rightly so, because more and more people are opting for second-hand or reconditioned gifts to spoil their loved ones. For the Emmaüs association, this ecological, economic and solidarity reflex is … Read more

Shocking Video of Deer Slaughter Sparks Outrage – Animal Rights Group Files Complaint

Shocking Video of Deer Slaughter Sparks Outrage – Animal Rights Group Files Complaint

The images are shocking. We see young deer tied up and held upside down then bled, using a knife, above a plastic container which fills with blood. The deer still seem conscious judging by their frenzied movements. The video was filmed on December 5 on a farm in the town of Courbeveille, south of Laval … Read more

Civil servants from Alsace and Moselle want to keep their 2 public holidays

Civil servants from Alsace and Moselle want to keep their 2 public holidays

“No to the abolition of public and non-working holidays specific to Alsace and Moselle”. In a petition from the Alsatian-Moselle Local Law Institutepublic officials deplore the new rules for harmonization of working hours which should cause them to lose two public holidays. Since the civil service transformation law, in an article in force on January … Read more

In Rennes, the prefecture prohibits Santa Claus from parading on the Vilaine

In Rennes, the prefecture prohibits Santa Claus from parading on the Vilaine

Santa Claus will not parade on the Vilaine this year. Organized since 2016 by the Pagayer association in Rennes, the big Christmas nautical parade which was to be held this Saturday at the end of the day to kick off the illuminations will not take place. The Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture decided to ban this demonstration on … Read more