Mathilde Favier is the public relations director of Dior Couture. She has just published a book with Frédérique Dedet, Mathilde in Paris (Flammarion) The book brings together what makes the salt and spirit of the Paris she loves.

“Chic and elegance are not a question of means,” she says. ‘We jump from one airport to another, from a party to a parade, in a crazy round, giving each other ‘my darling’ or ‘darling’’