Think of this as your FULL FRONTAL FASHION cliff notes.

Our pick this week in Who_What_Where: Molly, who’s street style is painfully sweet.

Tim Burton and Tim Walker team up and give you exactly what you think they would: eerie, beautiful fantasy photos.

Lynn Yaeger becomes the ultimate party hopper in a tutu.  But when she comes face to face with Madonna cat gets her tongue.

In Paris, it’s all about Brigitte Bardot.

FULL FRONTAL FASHION goes to the market in this new series of posts.

Alta Media Productions casts the tilt-shift effect (previously) on Paris in this video. The title makes sense around the 1 minute mark as the tilt-shift trick gives the neat impression of marching toy soldiers coming alive.

Toy Soldiers from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.

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I’ve been known to play sports here and there. Tennis or croquet anyone? But I, like many gay men, shy away from typical bar games found to be popular at our straight friend’s watering holes. You know those games: darts, pool, and foosball.

So leave it to the gloriously avant garde Parisian retailer Colette to change my mind. Pretty in pink and complete with row upon row and blonde locks, the Barbie Foot is made for me. It’s a foosball table with Lucite handles and Barbie doll players. No, really. It is ridiculous in all the good ways.

In “Graffiti Taxonomy,” Evan Roth ambitiously photographed and documented over 2,400 graffiti tags from each of Paris’s 20 districts, then archived and categorized them by letter. The artist tackled a smaller scale version as a Parsons graduate student in New York City where he “created character studies of the letter ‘S’ from the Lower East Side and the letter ‘A’ from Harlem, followed by an NYC-based letter ‘E’ study in 2008.”

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A Dilettante’s Dispatch is a series of posts from a jet-setting friend of ours, Arturo. Watch for more in the coming days.

OMG, I forgot to mention in my last post that I saw Ewan McGregor — my number-one celebrity exception — at L’Eclairuer. Beautiful, and wisely checking out a pair of Rick Owens motorcycle boots. Unfortunately he was with his wife and children, and therefore unlikely to fall prey to my waning charms.

In any event, Chanel. I’m not going to review the fashion, as I’m hardly qualified, and I don’t want to piss anyone off…yet. That said, the clothes at Chanel were quite shiney and elaborate and seemed well positioned to appeal to rich ladies in Texas and Russia. (See if you can spot me in the crowd!)

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A Dilettante’s Dispatch is a series of posts from a jet-setting friend of ours, Arturo. Watch for more in the coming days.

Just got in to Paris for my first couture, eating a croque monsieur on Charlot, admiring the cute scrawny French boys (though really wanting the fresh, curly haired and slightly brawny youth covering the street in tar).

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Robert Hammond and Joshua David with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (then New York Senator) on the High Line in 2006

Sundancechannel.com recently caught up with the very busy co-founders of Friends of the High Line, Robert Hammond and Joshua David, whose vision is captured in the Sundance Channel Original Series HIGH LINE STORIES.

In Part 2 of our conversation (click here to read Part 1 if you missed it!) Robert and Josh recount their crash course in preservation, legal action and grass roots organization during their efforts to follow through on re-purposing the High Line.

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Just below Sacre Coeur in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris, there is a small blue marker that reads, “Place Suzanne Valadon.” Unknown by name to many Americans, Valadon is instantly recognized by sight as the model for countless paintings by Renoir, Degas and Lautrec.

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Paris is turning into Tativille for the 102^nd birthday of director Jacques Tati. There will be the requisite film screenings at the Paris Cinematheque, including a new print of M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY, the six-part documentary THE 6 LESSONS OF PROFESSOR GOUDET, and interviews about Tati with contemporary filmmakers including Michel Gondry, Wes Anderson, David Lynch, Otar Iosseliani, and Olivier Assayas.

There will be tours of architectural points of interest from his films as well as an exhibition of “props, costumes, screenplays, outtakes, and drawings and paintings by his friend and art director Jacques Lagrange.” But possibly the most exciting part of Tatimania is the life size re-creation of the famous modern design disaster, the house from MON ONCLE, which will be up in Paris until November. More information at the Tativille website.