As the latest instalment of Miu Miu Summer Reads arrives in Hong Kong, we look at the brand’s ongoing tie up with the world ...

“Simone de Beauvoir was very much one of the earlier choices, specifically pushed by Mrs. Prada,” says Campofreda, noting they were drawn to the legendary French feminist writer’s novel The ...

Before we see any of the work at London’s Amar Gallery, we’re already burdened by that most famous of surnames. Born in 1910, Hélène de Beauvoir became an artist of modest renown. Her poetic ...

The de Beauvoir sisters, just two years apart, had long been close and supportive of each others respective talents. In her memoir Souvenirs, Hélène recalled of Simone how, “I was her first ...

This is Hélène de Beauvoir: artist, feminist, forgotten sister of Simone. She is 45 in this photograph, and living in Milan – the wife of the diplomat Lionel de Roulet.

Each of the four parts in Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical work, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, ends with a specific word: “Zaza,” “ raconterais ” (would tell), “ mort ” (death ...

First, we meet Simone de Beauvoir, who – with her life partner Jean-Paul Sartre – is associated with “ existentialism ” (though Eilenberger writes that she avoids the term).

Zaza died prematurely of an illness, and de Beauvoir would always carry with her the gift of this precious love for a friend. Like a silent river flowing beneath the papers and theories that would ...

I laughed because right then I was reading about the deep and furious real-life rift between de Beauvoir and her mother over de Beauvoir’s rejection of Roman Catholicism and declaration that there was ...

The French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was dropped from a list of female candidates to have their sculptures placed in the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin because of the ...

Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton ...