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Claire’s opens new immersive store in Paris

Jewellery and accessories brand Claire’s has unveiled a new immersive concept store in Paris, the first designed in collaboration with the brand’s creative director in residence Nicola Formichetti, who joined the company in November 2022. The 1,200-square-foot store, located on Rue Faubourg St. Antoine in Paris, has been designed for “total...

7 Mar 2023

Fashion

Gucci opens first stand-alone luxury travel store in Paris

Gucci has opened its first dedicated stand-alone store selling luggage and travel accessories in Paris. Located at 229 Rue Saint-Honoré, Gucci Valigeria is a two-storey boutique with an interior inspired by luxury travel from the Belle Époque period. “The décor evokes the atmosphere of an elegant vintage railway carriage, where furniture and...

29 Dec 2022

Culture |Beauty Featured

In pictures: Chanel opens immersive fragrance exhibition

Chanel is celebrating its storied fragrance brands with a festive and immersive exhibit at the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris until January 9, 2023. ‘Le Grand Numéro de Chanel’ is a tribute to the “world of Chanel fragrances” with a focus on the French luxury house’s most famous scent, Chanel No.5, created in the 1920s. The playful free...

16 Dec 2022

People

Police arrest Valentino store robbery suspect in Paris

Paris police on Tuesday fished a man out of the Seine river, which he jumped into after he rammed a car into a Valentino store and robbed dozens of luxury handbags. The 24-year-old suspect smashed into the store around 2:00 am on the high-end Rue Saint-Honore, a police source said. He grabbed as many as 30 luxury handbags and other items before...

16 Aug 2022

Business

Adidas to move French headquarters to Paris

Sportswear giant Adidas has shared with all its French employees at the end of last week the plan to consolidate its teams at a single new site in Paris by 2024. This means the company will move its corporate headquarters in France to Paris after more than 60 years in Strasbourg. The move is expected to be completed by 2024, merging the 140...

5 Jul 2022

RetailFeatured

Mango to open 70 new stores in France by 2025

Fashion group Mango is strengthening its presence in France with the opening of a new retail concept store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, and a pledge to open more than 70 new stores over the next few years. Mango states that France is a “strategic market” for the retail group and it is looking to increase its stores from the 223 it had at the...

13 Jun 2022

Retail

NBA to open third European store in Paris

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Fanatics, a digital sports platform and global provider of licensed sports merchandise, have announced they are opening the first NBA store in Paris this summer. The store will be operated by retail giant Lids and located at 20 Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris’s Latin Quarter and will mark the third...

11 Apr 2022

Retail |In Pictures

Burberry unveils new luxury concept with Paris flagship

Burberry has opened a new Paris flagship on the Rue Saint-Honoré debuting its new global luxury design concept in the region. The three-story flagship, located in the heart of Paris’ luxury design district, offers a luxury concept that connects Burberry’s past, present and future while celebrating the brand’s founder, Thomas Burberry, who opened...

7 Mar 2022

Retail |In Pictures

Giorgio Armani opens new womenswear boutique in Paris

Giorgio Armani has relocated its womenswear boutique in Paris to Avenue Montaigne 18, after a thorough redesign at Avenue Montaigne 2 on the same street, which now houses the Giorgio Armani men’s clothing and accessories line. The new womenswear boutique is set over two levels and spans 5,489 square feet. The ground floor houses clothing,...

15 Dec 2021

Retail

H&M Home opens first French store

H&M Home, the design-driven global interior brand of the H&M Group, has opened its first standalone store in France in the heart of Paris. The new concept store is located on 14, boulevard de Capucines at the corner of rue Scribe in a stunning true Haussmannian-style building that offers high ceilings for a ground floor lounge and an expansive...

14 Sept 2021

CultureFeatured

Thierry Mugler exhibition coming to Paris

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will open the ‘Thierry Mugler: Couturissime’ retrospective exhibition in September, after being delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The exhibition on Thierry Mugler, which first made its debut at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts in 2019, will retrace his five decades of work in fashion, haute couture and...

22 Jul 2021

Retail |In Pictures Featured

Samaritaine reopens in Paris after renovations

Luxury department store Samaritaine Paris Pont-Neuf overlooking the Seine has reopened after major renovations. The historic building has been restored by the DFS group, which is majority-owned by LVMH alongside co-founder Robert Miller. Éléonore de Boysson, president of DFS, Europe and the Middle East, said in a statement: “We welcome you to...

23 Jun 2021