Paris Fashion Week Bulletin

City Guides x Emilie Meinadier Consulting

#3 Fall 2017

Eat & Coffee

Le Camondo Les Grands Verres Le Grand Bain

afternoon tea / bar / cocktails / modern euro / bar / cocktails / coffee / mediterranean / modern euro / small plates terrace terrace / view Brit chef Edward Delling Williams and his Located inside the museum Nissim de Camondo, The Palais de Tokyo’s new cocktail bar and front-of-house buddy Edouard Lax from Au this new bar and restaurant provides a modish restaurant is a pioneer in sustainability, with Passage have taken everything they liked setting for a meal or aperitif before or after its own edible flower garden, beehive and on- and mastered from that longstanding bistro exploring the museum’s incredible collection site composter. American chef Preston Miller and bought it to their own new place out in of French decorative arts, or the Parc Monceau, explored his Lebanese origins for the menu, Belleville: a daily changing chalkboard menu opposite. The dining room opens on to a and the cocktails and wine list are world class. lists about 20 small plates – maybe crab and courtyard terrace like a secret garden. ReadyMade, a café and apéritif bar, is located salsify (7€), pork shoulder (45€) or butternut 61 bis rue de Monceau, 8th / 01 45 63 40 40 / Noon-midnight at the entrance and is open all day for a more broth and tortellini (6€); the wines are natural; (4pm Sun). Closed Mon/ www.lecamondo.fr casual bite or quick coffee. and the crowd happy and handsome. 13 avenue du Président Wilson, 16th / 01 85 53 03 61 / Noon- 14 rue Dénoyez, 20th / 09 83 02 72 02 / 7-11.30pm daily / 3pm, 7pm-2am daily / www.facebook.com/lesgrandsverres/ www.legrandbainparis.com/ Hotels

Hôtel de Crillon The Hoxton Paris Hôtel National des Arts & Metiers

After the Ritz last summer, another of the Ultra-cool Shoreditch-born chain The This stylish new hotel between the Marais world’s legendary palace hotels has just entered Hoxton now has a hit Paris sibling. Head and Montorgueil from the Hotel Bachaumont a new chapter in its history. The comprehensive upstairs to find Jacques, the exotic lounge crew is home to a rangy ground-floor trattoria restoration adds a contemporary polish to the bar: a homage to Jacques Majorelle and his Ristorante National and more casual cicchetti hotel while remaining faithful to its character. namesake Marrakech garden with jaunty bar. Mixologist Oscar Quagliarini presides A gorgeous ground-floor suite of dining floral wallpaper, tasseled lamps, palms and a over L’Herbarium bar where each concoction and drinking spaces includes the relooked reclaimed timber parquet floor. The drinks on the perfume-inspired cocktail menu has Ambassadeurs bar, with unrivalled views over list, devised by local cocktail gurus Quixotic, its own “olfactory identity”. The fun continues the Place de la Concorde and a really quite epic also takes exotic cues, with highlights like an at the tiny rooftop bar: best book ahead to get champagne list. on-point mezcal negroni. a seat. 10 Place de la Concorde, 8th | www.facebook.com/ 30-32 rue du Sentier, 2nd | www.thehoxton.com/paris 243 rue Saint Martin, 3rd |www.hotelnational.paris hoteldecrillon/

Balenciaga Avenue Montaigne Démodé Christian Dior Paris

Last fashion week Demna Gvasalia cemented his Retail genius Marie-France Cohen, behind two Dior has launched a hush-hush hub for its reign at Balenciaga, with the brand’s rue Saint game-changing Paris icons – kids’ outfitter high-end fragrance line. Born as a pop-up in Honoré boutique brought in line with the house’s Bonpoint, and concept store Merci – has launched spring 2016, and then quietly refurb’ed and new aesthetic. A 3rd Parisian Balenciaga outpost her third act. “Find a gap, don’t create a need, we rebranded this summer, the boutique is the – on the old site of luxe multibrand boutique have too much of everything,” runs the slogan for only stand-alone address to exclusively stock Montaigne Market – has just opened at 57 Avenue Démodé (“outdated”), a homewares-store-cum- Dior’s haute perfume range La Collection Montaigne, modelling the same super-sharp new showroom spanning handblown glass, velvet Privée. Initially developed under Hedi Slimane look: a strikingly proportioned, industrial-chic cushions and painted plates. The common thread: in 2004, today the line is developed in-house space with concrete floors, aluminium tables and Cohen’s magpie eye, but also a love of poetic, by Dior’s own perfumer François Demachy. All changing rooms bearing silicon drapes. Nailing one-off objects, rather than fickle fashions. Find scents nod to the label’s heritage, from Dior’s the factory vibe, clothes hang off chrome-plated Cohen’s objects of desire on the e-shop or in the flower-filled childhood home in Granville to conveyor belts. Saint-Germain pop-up. his muse Mitzah Bricard. 57 avenue Montaigne, 75008 | www.balenciaga.com 70 rue de Grenelle, 75007 | www.demode.fr 326 rue Saint Honoré, 75001 | www.dior.com

colette 1997-2017 On 12 July Sarah Andelman announced via Instagram that the temple of Parisian cool was set to shut on 20 December. Sarah and her mother Colette Roussaux launched the concept store in 1997; their statement explained that the original Colette had “reached the time when she would like to take her time, and Colette cannot exist without Colette”. So now is just about your last chance to scope the boutique’s zeitgeist-defining array of fashion, accessories, cosmetics and covetable limited editions, and sniff that signature fig scent. They’re seeing out the year with takeovers by their favourite brands: this month it’s Thom Browne, who moved his womenswear show from NYC to Paris this season, then Chanel (Nov) and Saint Laurent (Dec) (who are tipped to take over the space in 2018). www.colette.fr

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Irving Penn Christian Dior Yves Saint Laurent Museum grand palais musée des arts décoratifs Following the launch of the YSL Museum in Celebrated for more than six decades of Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the house Marrakech, Oct 3 sees the launch of the Musée influential work at Vogue magazine, Penn was of Dior, this lavish exhibition invites visitors Yves Saint Laurent Paris, set in the mythic first and foremost a fashion photographer. To on a voyage of discovery through the universe hôtel particulier where he spent nearly 30 years mark the centennial of his birth, this retrospective of Dior’s founder and the illustrious couturiers designing clothes. The space spotlights the is the most comprehensive exhibition of the who succeeded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc couturier’s creative genius and process via American photographer’s work to date. Over the Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf retrospectives and themed exhibitions drawing course of his long career, Irving Penn mastered a Simons and, most recently, Maria Grazia Chiuri. on the museum’s exceptional archive. Sadly, pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that The selection of over 300 haute couture gowns YSL’s partner and greatest champion Pierre is distinguished for its meticulous attention to has a unifying thread of emotions, life stories, Bergé passed away just a few weeks before the composition, nuance, detail, and printmaking. affinities, inspirations, creations and legacies. museum’s inauguration. Until 29 Jan | 3 avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 | Until 7 Jan | 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 | 5 avenue Marceau, 75016 | www.fondation-pb-ysl.net www.grandpalais.fr www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr