I started early, knowing that the stands pack it up and close up shop by about 1 pm. My original plan was to take a walk-through once and then go back to buy things, but I was meeting someone at noon and couldn’t take all the time I wanted in the end. So, I strolled through, stopping at [...]
I take people on extravagant shopping trips in Paris. The kind of trips destined to furnish a Lake Tahoe country house or decorate a New York City flat. I’ve even helped native Parisians find that “perfect” piece. My clients may be book collectors or art collectors or fans of art deco.
I love the galleries [...]
A small chain of convenience stores called Chez Jean have opened around Paris, offering all the essentials from 7am-11pm, seven days a week even Christmas and May 1st. Modeled a bit like the stores at a highway rest stop, they have snacks, sandwiches, salads, and hot dishes served at the counter, tables to sit an [...]
The two extremes of Parisian style for women of a certain age were displayed across the aisle from each other on my subway ride this morning.
Remember the Academy Award winner who wore a dress of American Express cards a few years ago? Here’s the new version: Summer dresses of thongs. And these little darlings are found at the BHV.
Today is a bad day for shoppers… Not only is August 3rd the last day of Les Soldes (sales) in Paris, but on top of that a lot of shops will close for the month… Parisians usually go away in August for their summer holidays and shopkeepers do too… Don’t worry, though, if you’re a [...]
Just in case you can’t afford the latest haute couture (the shows end today), Paris has the perfect quick fix for any fashion fanatic. Even if you have already drooled over the YSL retrospective, you’ll find yet more vintage style at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. There, until October 10, you can view the best of [...]
If E. Dehillerin is not the most practical place to shop for kitchen equipment in Paris, it’s certainly the most nostalgic. The vintage, forest-green storefront spans the corner of rue Coquillière and rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, windows brimming with gleaming copper and stainless steel (as they have for nearly two centuries). Opened in 1820, in the heart of the [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, get your running shoes out and your boxing gloves on. C’est les soldes! Today marks the beginning of the fabled twice-annual deep-discount French sales. Fabled, you might ask? Let’s just say that even Cendrillion can find a dress to go with those glass stilettos as prices fall to rock-bottom over the 5-week [...]
The news on Saturday in Paris was… the annual Gay Pride parade.
