luxury shopping: Where mystical blend with chic

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Why so chic Parisians? Surely the answer to this question is located in the eternal quality of shopping in their city.

Just as the French are known for elegant simplicity when it comes to her wardrobe, whether your shopping scene instead more on quality than quantity, well-curated boutiques and department stores focused spoiled for sprawling shopping centers and chain stores.

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The famous French jewelry designer Gaia Repossi and he said girl shopping in Paris .. "I was a very strict, almost austere Very elegant and sophisticated La Parisienne is never over, it's a subtle elegance, shows more than what we call fashion. Somehow the character is still there."

In other words, rather than the distance from your originality in picking up armfuls of parades "Tribute" at Zara when in Paris, as the locals behave and try high-end modern classics with a button on idiosyncratic unusual vintage jewelry sewing or flea market finds.

The city is home to the most prestigious fashion houses, and a visit to their flagship role in the history of fashion.

The Dior boutique at 30 Avenue Montaigne in the 8th District was the seat of the House in 1946, a year later, Christian Dior showed his pioneering post-war "New Look" with her extravagant skirt and tailored jacket is complete low. In the last episode of the hit television series Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw stumble on a marble floor of the store.

Avenue Montaigne, Paris's famous shopping street, exclusive, comparable to London, Bond Street or Milan Via Montenapoleone, and nearby you will find (24 rue Fran?ois) Chanel (51 Avenue Montaigne) also favorite fashion insiders, Céline, Louis Vuitton (101 Champs-Elysées) , Balenciaga (10 Avenue George V) and the multi-brand store Montaigne Market (57 Avenue Montaigne).

For a lively mix of Gallic character designer and weight, but the head of the first arrondissement. Saturday flow, stepfather world's original concept store Colette, 213 rue St Honoré for a cool, if self-conscious mix of branded apparel, accessories and street wear for men and women from names such as Azzedine Ala?a, Comme des Gar?ons and jeweler Eddie Borgo, and books, magazines and worship music. Other highlights of the rue Saint-Honoré and its side streets are Roger Vivier (29 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré), the shoe brand, whose eponymous founder designed Parisian chic shoes coronation Elizabeth II, underwear luxury Alice Cadolle (4 rue Cambon) and Fifi Chachnil (231 rue Saint-Honoré).

From the rue St Honoré, northeast of the Place Vend?me, home of fine jewelry houses, whose workshops are outside shops. Boucheron was the first to arrive in 1893, and now you will also find Van Cleef & Arpels, Chaumet, De Beers, Cartier, Damiani jewelry and high Chanel, Dior and Louis Vuitton - it opened in July. For everyone who keeps the square is too tight, it is independent of the family Repossi jewelers, where modern ideas of the founder of Gaia Repossi granddaughter are also in stock. Recovery Schiaparelli fashion brand has launched a new clothing boutique at number 21, with an appropriately eccentric interior, even though the designer house until October.

At the end of the Rue Saint-Honoré, the Palais-Royal. The arrival of designer boutiques here has changed the tone picturesque elegant arches around the palace, which was largely occupied by shops of art and antiques, but they still have a lot of personality. Head rose specializes in the hotel Rosine Les Parfums perfumes, soaps and other scented ointments, vintage Shop guru Didier Ludot to the little black dress Little Black Dress (it also has an eponymous boutique with high dedicated area, vintage sewing), Maison Fabre glovers craftsman, founded in 1924, Rick Owens, a leading provider of innovative and edgy grunge Gothic Pierre Hardy shoes manufacturer.

For a hip, casual atmosphere more risk in the east of the Marais in the 3rd and 4 Arrondissement, where the road network invites hikers to explore the shops as Isabel Marant to equip you as the editor of French Vogue, The Man Scout directional menswear and Delambre Lunetiers glasses unique. Some stores are open on Sundays, when most - if not all - businesses closed elsewhere. Exceptions that are closed on Sundays include, Azzedine Ala?a, 7 rue de Moussy and Azzedine Ala?a floor, 18 rue de la Verrerie where ideas Seasons "and the concept store with a conscience will thank you, 111 boulevard Beaumarchais updated where all profits to a go to a charitable foundation. Inside the loft style of white walls, old textile factory from the 19th century, you will find a fascinating mix of different clothes new and vintage jewelry, furniture, quirky, dry goods, flowers, books, and household products.

To vary, of course, you can not beat the big stores and upscale is the oldest and LVMH-owned Le Bon Marché, which opened in 1848 and was the inspiration for the store where Zola set his novel Au Bonheur des ladies. Or you can spend a morning away at the flea market, flea market of Saint-Ouen Saint-Ouen, which is not only a wonderfully eclectic mix of everything old, but a material history of Paris.