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...Treatments from €190, mandarin-oriental.com Subterranean swank in Paris’s seventh arrondissement How do I love this haute Parisian bolthole? Let me count the ways....
...There’s Odera (oderatinos.com; rates yet to be set), a luxurious 77-room boutique hotel on a private beach, due to open in late spring....
...The most obvious pastime nearby is shopping, but this area is more about mainstream brands than the charming boutiques in the Marais....
...Zeidan, the 34-year-old founder of the boutique US brand of the same name, as though it were the mid-century modern home of “a desert-dwelling botanist”, whose “Old Hollywood” type friends would drive out...
...It’s sleepy – right now, in monsoon season, you might sit for half an hour at Le Banneton Café, stretching out your café crème and croissant (both of which are so perfect you could be in Paris’s sixth arrondissement...
...From cool boutique hideaways to the ultra-luxe grandes dames, travellers here are spoiled for choice....
...But what I love most are Paris’s gastronomic delights. Join me on an epicurean stroll through my city . . ....
...And also sake – I drink it cold, maybe with one ice cube, and I find it’s even better than champagne or wine. kinase-boutique.com The first piece of clothing I ever bought myself was a blue YSL Rive Gauche...
...She teaches at Le Tigre (among other places), one of Paris’s high-end gym franchises....
...AC 57 Rue de Richelieu, 75002; husbands-paris.com FOR CASUAL WEAR Clutch Cafe, LondonThis emporium is a shrine to Japanese designers’ love of midcentury American style....
...Thanks to its Parisian fan base, La Baule already has many boutiques, restaurants and cultural offerings....
...Montblanc introduced its own, the Montblanc star, in 2006. Those moves reflect growing competition in the $270bn global jewellery market....
...Watch this space. riadmenaandbeyond.com, from €245....
...The fragrances will only be available in Celine stores, on its website and in its first Haute Parfumerie boutique, on Paris’s ultra-chic shopping street Rue Saint-Honoré....
...Similar styles, from €290; goossens-paris.com Something I would never part with is a pair of combat boots from the early ’90s made by Jil Sander....
...For an excellent selection of clothing – just like Paris's Leclaireur but unknown – I love the Anne boutique....
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...It’s also a physical pleasure with this little black pen, which is always with me. montblanc.com My favourite apps are Focus@Will – a mix of music and neuroscience to help tune out distractions and be more...
...I’m quite low-maintenance in the grooming department. £179 for 50ml; sisley-paris.com An indulgence I would never forgo is going for long bike rides in the Yorkshire Dales....
...Compared to today’s mammoth international fairs, 1-54 was a boutique event, to say the least....
...It’s Paris’s Left Bank, but not as most of us know it....
...located on Rue Las Cases in Paris’s seventh arrondissement....
...The latest brand to dip into ecommerce is 143-year-old Audemars Piguet, which in April announced an online boutique in partnership with China’s JD.com....
...Boutique hotels, hipster cafés and even a Maison du Bitcoin have followed....
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