Oysters and champagne, s’il vous plaît! It was the first year Mademoiselle Lili was celebrating New Year’s Eve in Paris, and a chance to consider the differences between the two cultures of Germany and France.

The beard is to men what the hairstyle is to women. Mademoiselle Lili watched Paris’s most famous female barber at work.

The house of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa in the Parisian district of Marais has become a public and yet very private memorial site. In this column Mademoiselle Lili is paying homage to this.

At present, no other industry is undergoing such rapid change as fashion journalism. Mademoiselle Lili is struggling to understand this brave new world.

Palais Royal in the heart of Paris is slightly hidden and occupies a world of its own. For Mademoiselle Lili this is the most beautiful place in the busy tourist hotspot near the Louvre – with quite an exciting history, as she recently discovered.

A spectacular XXL installation in Paris shows how differently you can experience and present art. Mademoiselle Lili immersed herself in Hundertwasser, Klimt and company, and felt like she’d been given a new lease of life.

The Afropunk Festival in Paris is a showdown of diversity and creativity – Mademoiselle Lili is looking forward to a two-day event full of  visual and acoustic fireworks.

At her last hair appointment, Mademoiselle Lili realised that she had become rather conservative about her hair. So, she racked her brains about a big topic:  hair and religion.

Farmers markets are an institution in Paris. It is particularly during the asparagus season that Mademoiselle Lili grabs her rolling shopping bag and sets off for her favourite markets to soothe her culinary homesickness.

Charlie Le Mindu creates art from hair and completely overturns our expectations of hairdressing. Mademoiselle Lili is always amazed at what he makes out of hair.

If you’re a woman who likes to travel around all over the place on your own, you often have problems explaining things. But, that’s not the case at the Le Bristol Bar in Paris. Mademoiselle Lili really feels at home there.

Even if you haven’t yet visited Paris, you can immediately think of at least three sights that you would like to visit at some point. Mademoiselle Lili knows other worthwhile alternatives.

Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent: if you’d like to experience a different kind of fashion in Paris this autumn, you should swap shopping for a museum. Mademoiselle Lili stood in line too.

The Paris fashion world is a parallel universe where things have different locations and names. When everyone is going crazy once again for Fashion Week, Mademoiselle Lili thinks about Loïc Prigent’s collection of verbal comedy and laughs herself silly.

Forget Easter, Christmas or New Year. It’s a very different date that defines the rhythm of Paris: “La Rentrée”, when children return to school after the summer holidays.  Mademoiselle Lili talks about the before and after.

The Seine divides Paris into two banks – but the term Rive Gauche or Rive Droite means more than just a geographic location. Mademoiselle Lili adjusts the compass.

Early summer is the most beautiful time in Paris. Finally, the time has come to enjoy an Aperol in the balmy evening air of the city’s terraces or to take a stroll in open-toed shoes. Mademoiselle Lili regularly has fun – in the city’s rooftop bars.

Dalida, the most-imitated cult singer in France, is now being given a new stage: the fashion museum Palais Galliera is exhibiting her flamboyant wardrobe. Mademoiselle Lili is already gasping in anticipation.

Where should you go in Paris when spring has sprung? Mademoiselle Lili has a hot tip:  Jardin Albert Kahn outside the gates of Paris. You don’t have to be a gardening pensioner to be enchanted by its treasures.

Fashion designers, film directors and it girls are constantly waxing lyrical about the irresistible Parisiennes and their unmistakable style: Mademoiselle Lili has put in quite a bit of practice.

The time has come: at the end of February, fashion is once again the order of the day in Paris. Mademoiselle Lili looks forward to discovering places that are otherwise hidden from the public eye.

UNESCO has dubbed French cuisine a world cultural heritage. If you really want to experience it, you are best making a reservation at a “table d’hôte”, one of Paris’ many private restaurants.

Hardly any other city has such an incredibly romantic reputation as Paris. Love is supposed to jump out at you on every street corner like a playful puppy...

A code word, a tiny red door, a walk through the cold room or a laundrette – secret bars, known as speakeasies, are the new trend in Paris...

Why travel to Costa Rica, the Amazon or the Serengeti? At Fondation Cartier in Paris you’re in the midst of it all: “The Great Animal Orchestra” commences its performance. Mademoiselle Lili is listening carefully.

When the temperatures rise above 34 degrees in Paris and you need to cool off, you have to swipe your credit card if you want something a little nicer: Mademoiselle Lili went bathing in Piscine Molitor...