The people behind Cannes City.

Sébastien Joumel

Sébastien Joumel is the publication director of Cannes City. Co-founder of NEWP, the agency that publishes the magazine, he doesn't write the pages: he answers for them. The local eye is Iwona's; his job is to guard the frame around it.

Born in Saint-Malo, he grew up with the tide for a clock and the open sea for a horizon. From one coast to the other, the corsair Atlantic to the festival Mediterranean, he recognises the same instinct: a city reads better from its lanes than from its postcard.

His part of the job comes down to one line: keeping Cannes City independent. No paid listings, no commission, no favours, and the right, for every writer, to say what they'd skip as freely as what they love.

Iwona Trembowska

Iwona Trembowska adopted Cannes four years ago. A digital entrepreneur, she runs Le Journal de Ta Vie and founded Carton Magique, two editorial houses built around the same idea: that everyday life deserves a record.

The same eye led her to Cannes. Rather than taking the Croisette front-on, she walks it back to front: through Le Suquet, Palm Beach, the morning markets, the unnamed lanes, the terraces you cannot see from the sea. Her territory is the city at street level.

Her thesis: “Cannes is chic, but above all an easy place to live.” It is that resident's eye that guides what we publish here.

She shares her take on the city with Cannes City, in English and French. Her preferences: tables that do not face the sea, boutiques that resist the flagships, hotels you choose to stay in, not to pass through.