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Posted on July 30, 2007 by Susie Hollands

After his original flagship store opened on the Champs Elysées in 1982, Armand Hadida has created quite a fashion empire around Paris. Now you can find a varied ‘en point’ collection of international designers all around town in his unique concept stores – all with distinctive (and truly impressive) interior design. Read more

Little Italy

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Susie Hollands

Image: Little Italy It’s not large but this Italian café next to busy rue Montorgueil offers a haven for anyone starved of decent Italian food, which isn’t as easy to come by as you’d think in a city known for its Italian immigration. The anti-pasti is magnifico. The staff are harrassed but nice – no… Read more

Chez Carmen

Posted on June 24, 2007 by Susie Hollands

A mythic “after” bar for night-owls. Carmen presides over this boisterous and eclectic mix – woe betide anyone who tries to change the music! Part living room part dive bar, this is somewhere where you never quite know who you could bump into or what might happen. Not to be confused with the rather more… Read more

Covered passages of Paris – 2nd arrondissement

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Susie Hollands

Covered passages can be found peppered through the 1st, 2nd, and 9th arrondissements, but if you’re not on the lookout, you can easily miss these beautiful shopping walkways that are perfectly preserved snapshots of Parisian history. The character of each varies. Passage du Grand Cerf in the 2nd (next to hip but grungy rue Saint-Denis, near… Read more

Madame André

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Susie Hollands

In this tiny shop you can buy sexy underwear, high-priced one-off items by trendy French designers and glam-trash jewelry by London duo Tatty-Devine. More of an NYC or London vibe than Paris. Madame André’s husband Monsieur André is one of Paris’ best known street artists, entrepreneurs and men-about-town. Madame André 34, rue Mont-Thabor, 1st Ph. 01… Read more