Shopping for High Fashion in Paris

Paris’s Fashionable Right Bank Offers a Wide Range of Haute Couture

Aug 29, 2008

Paris's Golden Triangle of haute couture on the Right Bank has great shopping opportunities. Fashion boutiques here have become hip with Paris's showbiz set.

The Paris fashion district extends from the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the Place Vendôme and the rue Royale to the rue Montaigne and the Champs- Elysées. It has all the top designer names in shopping: Dior, Versace, Hermes, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Cartier, Gucci, Christian Lacroix, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton; making it an essential stop for the fashion-conscious shopper.

Colette for Hip Paris Fashion

Probably the hippest fashion boutique in Paris, with cool accessories, bling, clothes and trinkets for the seriously fashionable. Here, you're like to see chic Parisians enthusing over designer labels. There's even a water bar downstairs with designer bottled water.

Custo Barcelona for Fashionable T-shirts

Renowned all over Paris for its cute fashionable t-shirts for guys and gals, in warm Mediterranean colors. With such designs as sequined words and caricatures, it’s the t-shirt as canvas. It’s expensive though, so you may chose to just window shop.

There are several branches of Custo Barcelona in Paris, the most notable one is at 316 rue Saint- Honoré, Paris (nearest Metro: Tuileries)

Alternatives - Offbeat Fashion Boutique

This tiny fashion boutique in le Marais features couture cast-offs (mainly for men) from such fashion designers as Gucci, Issy Miyake and Jean-Paul Gaultier. This exquisite fashion outlet is the epitome of smart Parisian chic.

Zara - A Popular Fashion Chain

With some 25 locations around Paris, this Spanish fashion chain has copies of catwalk fashions at affordable prices. Items for men and children, too.

Galeries Lafayette - Paris Department Store

In Paris’s Opéra district, this elegant Parisian department store has designer labels, a new activewear department, a children’s ‘concept store,’ a separate building for men and a gourmet food section where shoppers can stop to refuel!

Printemps - Paris Department Store

A Paris department store near Galeries Lafayette that also stocks a wide variety of fashionable clothes and accessories.

Plenty to Choose from at Carrousel du Louvre

The inverted glass pyramid of the Louvre adds light and design drama to the Carrousel du Louvre. With its 45 boutiques and 14 restaurants, shoppers can keep occupied for hours. Goods range from fashion and jewellery to household items.

99 rue de Rivoli, Paris. Entrance on Rivoli, through the museum or the metro (Palais Royal Musée du Louvre.)

Paris is synonymous with leading designer labels and revels in its international status as the world’s ultimate shopping and fashion destination. Paris’s affinity with the fashion world is evident in its shops and boutiques, but don’t let this overwhelm you; despite its chic image there is little of the elitism in Paris that many associate with the fashion industry. Shoppers can find many attractive bargains in Paris, and most of all, enjoy the experience of shopping in the capital of haute couture.

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