Mixing and matching high-brow garb with low-brow duds is a time-tested closet ritual that results in (hopefully) forward-trending, adventurous fashion that pays a nod to epochs gone by. With ballet slippers commissioned by the likes of (a young) Brigitte Bardot and (...
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Page 189
A bookworm's paradise
This tiny bookstore is amazing. Located in the quarter Saint-Antoine, Page 189 received the label LIR (independent library of r...
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Alasinglinglin
Vintage furniture fabulousness
Owners Natalie, Philippe and Bruno offer a toast to Paris' freshest hipster enclave, Village Popincourt, with their small, jovi...
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Anna Rivka
Semi-precious stones & retro-glam
Anna Karina in Godard's French New-Wave film 'A Woman is a Woman.' Seventeenth-century verse penned by French poet Jean Racine....
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Thomsen
A shirt for all seasons
Fiancé team, Alix Thomsen and Lionel Bensemoun, launched their semi-eponymous boutique store in 2009, bringing to the fore that...
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Annick Goutal
Scents and sensibility
Annick Goutal opened the doors of her classy perfumery house in 1981, proffering her sprays to Paris for many years before hand...
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Pretty Box
Vintage selection
While big-name fashion magazines like Vogue and Elle by no means define cool, the publications' features about this vintage clo...
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Lulu Berlu
Vintage toys galore
Specialized in vintage collector's toys, Lulu Berlu is a paradise for all you big kids. In amongst figurines of nostalgia heros...
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Le 29
Photo digest
Le 29 is a multifunctional photography venue exhibiting a combined book store gallery space and "Ze Rouge Corner", where you ca...
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La Petite Fripe
Vintage institution
La Petite Fripe is not just your average vintage shop, it's more of an institutional cornerstone for thread hunters of both sex...
