A French house music fan and francophile, Wallis has performed twice at the French Institute’s 12-hour extravaganza ‘My Night With Philosophers’.
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At the „Institut Français de la Mode“ in Paris she received the Master of Arts and worked for various designers like Stephen Jones, Yohji Yamamoto, John Galliano and Hermès.
During World War II he went into exile first to the United States where he spoke on the radio through the Voice of America and then, beginning in 1941, to Mexico where he participated with other French refugees in founding the Institut Français d'Amérique Latine (IFAL).
After living in the French unoccupied zone, Bénichou could leave in 1942 with his family to Argentina, where he had been offered a teaching position in the university of Mendoza; afterwards, he taught in Buenos Aires, at the Institut Français (co-founded by Roger Caillois).
From 1927 to 1932 he taught at the Institut Français in Prague, where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling.