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Mory Sacko parle vite, très vite, comme pour avoir le temps d’expliquer tout ce qui compose son riche univers. Et chacune de ses phrases, à l’image de sa cuisine, est franche, précise, réfléchie. C’est rive gauche que le chef s’installe en septembre de 2020 pour ouvrir Mosuke, son premier restaurant. Tout juste auréolé de sa première étoile Michelin, il a été contraint de se réadapter au début du second confinement. Il dégaine alors Mosugo, concept street food à emporter, qui tourne à plein régime. L’ex-candidat de Top Chef trouve le temps de s’attabler avec le sourire, pour raconter sa cuisine singulière, son quotidien...

Since the release of her first EP three years ago, Alexia Gredy hasn’t stopped writing. From “L’Habitude”, we remember the titles “Diabolo Menthe” or “Paradis” – with a video clip directed by French photographer Mathieu César. In the unprecedented context of 2020, the singer, a Parisian girl by adoption, took the opportunity to refine her first album. The record may be a new introduction to her multi-layered universe guided by her musical encounters, and carried out by a soft voice and sometimes dramatic, always poetic atmospheres. Often compared to the icons of the past Françoise Hardy or Marie Laforêt –...

Mathieu Lehanneur has made quite an impact on the international design scene over the past twenty years. In 2001, his graduation project, the “Therapeutic Objects” (which aimed at transforming our relationship to medicine) was quickly integrated into the MoMA’s permanent collection. Lehanneur’s interest in science, though unexpected for a designer, is at the center of his approach. It led him to create iconic objects such as ‘Andrea’, a living filter absorbing toxic compounds from the air around us. Combining advanced technology and handcraft, Mathieu Lehanneur seeks to represent our own complexity by creating a hybrid space where technology and nature...

For Yiqing Yin, haute couture is a state of mind. The Grand Prize winner at the 2011 Andam Fashion Award is a true architecte for clothes. After working as a creative director for big names of ready-to-wear, she now takes the time to create her own way. Her 10-year-old label allowed her to be awarded the official ‘haute couture’ designation by the Chambre Syndicale back in 2015. While she works as a creative consultant here and there, Yiqing Yin now dedicates herself entirely to her craft, and considers haute couture as a laboratory of experimentations that allows her to dip...