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A big trend right now is how AI is beating human existence, BUT I think this theme is too dense to talk about today, and we don't want to make this a huge special issue. So, let’s save it for the next issue, where we can perfectly mix it with the new Gru & Mandalorian movies and lots of sci-fi references—especially since May is the month of Star Wars. Today, we’ll keep walking through this wild French garden that is Paris: we’ll dress in Dior, find a hidden treasure exhibition in the metro, and say goodbye to an agent and friend with a big celebration. Isn’t life beautiful? The rain has come back to Paris. Isn’t rain beautiful?

DEAR JULIA

How are you?

New projects are exciting, aren’t they?

This feeling of a fresh start is priceless.

As you know, we artists—or maybe just me—are like balloons. On the other end of the string, we need a steady hand holding us down to earth. Sometimes it’s easy and the balloon just floats; sometimes there are winds that require your mastery to keep everything working. It's a subtle balance between an agent and an artist, each with their own role: both making art, both staying logical. Julia, you have been my agent for the last 7 years at the Illustration Division Agency. In these 7 years, all the work I did also has a part of you in it. It might not be colored or lined, but your hard work is there. Good art is timeless, so your work will always be part of my portfolio. THANKS, MERCI, GRACIAS, GRAZIE, DANKE.

As expected, I’m too emotional to just send you a message, so—the orchestra is tuning their instruments and the elephants are ready—this issue of Living For Breakfast is dedicated to you as a "welcome to your new life" gift. This magazine is my Ikigai, my "raison d'être" (my reason for being). Every time I need to understand myself, my art, or simply how the world works, I create it; it’s my map. I literally live for interesting conversations around food and laughs—lots of both, ahaha. I wish you the very best path to your Ikigai, to your dream, to your "LIVING FOR."

There is a special surprise for you hidden between these articles: 524 dishes arranged to the music of one of my favorite composers, Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Let’s go big! I hope all of this inspires you. Please, stay in touch whenever you want and celebrate this beautiful moment AU FOND (As much as you can)!

Cheers to your future!

Crunchy Butter Hugs, VM

PS: Below is some of the work we did together, celebrating your new life with you. Cheers!

DIOR

SPRING . 2026. COUTURE

GARDEN GARDEN GARDEN SPRING SPRING SPRING DIOR DIOR DIOR

These are my obsessions this season. This Spring, we’ve seen Spring itself become a huge trend. Even Miranda Priestly said in The Devil Wears Prada: "Flowers for spring? Groundbreaking." But we have to admit that sometimes flowers are needed in Spring, Miranda. If not in spring, then when?

This time, Jonathan Anderson traded his couture scissors for gardening ones, making us feel like these dresses weren't sewn, but rather grown. Petal textures, bold volumes, second-skin knitwear... there is something new, yet at the same time, something unseen but always there. This is how these big Maisons work: they have to find the balance between high trend, the future, and heritage. And, of course, in this case, Jonathan understood that for Dior, Heritage is synonymous with innovation.

Paris, mon carnet d'adresses:

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"Le Musée de la Mode en vitrine"

Galeries Valois. METRO: Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre

(Lines 1 & 7)

75001 - PARIS

I was on my way to meet Constanza for lunch in the gardens of the Bibliothèque Nationale when, suddenly, there it was: an exhibition in the metro. This is a place I always thought of as just an underground passage: Galeries Valois at the Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station (1st Arrondissement, lines 1 & 7). Opened in 1916 by the CMP (the company preceding the RATP), this is an disused commercial gallery in the Art Nouveau style. Originally an underground extension of the Grands Magasins du Louvre, it features display cases that are 1.6 meters deep. Since 2010, the RATP has been hosting ephemeral exhibitions here, like the one I found: "Le Musée de la Mode en vitrine" by Olivier Saillard, a fashion historian, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier.

More than just an exhibition, this is a concept: contrasting with the rigid, closed, and static way fashion is usually shown in museums, here the mannequins act as visitors and the garments are displayed in action, in a dialogue with the space. Should something created to be used and in motion be kept captive inside a display case? The metro itself provides that energy.

Note: On the surface, this station features iconic Guimard Art Nouveau entrances, and it sits between two important Parisian landmarks: the Palais Royal and the Louvre itself.