Isabel Ashipa | Hospitality & Lifestyle

Everyone knows this village for its summer parties, fewer know it as the fishing port that seduced painters long before it seduced the jet setters and thats the Saint-Tropez I came for to mark another year around the sun in good company.

I arrived the way the painters did by sea, tasted special cuveé rosé at the source, found a Matisse art book in a hidden cafe-librairie and slow wander through the old port and its painted streets and yes, the sunglasseses are @parfois élégante under a blinding Riviera sun.

This is the Saint-Tropez beyond the beach clubs.