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...Late last year, French heritage handbag house Létrange took over a 4,500sq ft apartment on Rue Saint-Honoré for private appointments....
...La Maison du Chocolat, launched by Robert Linxe on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in 1977 and pivotal in establishing a global demand for premium chocolates made in France, started a trend for boutiques modelled...
...“There is no question that this is a pro-competitive, pro-consumer deal and that the FTC fundamentally misunderstands both the marketplace and the way in which consumers shop,” Tapestry said in a statement...
...It’s usually lit on December 7 to mark the feast of Sant’Ambrogio, the city’s patron saint....
...And the success of the sale provides priceless publicity for the auction house: in a sense, it is their shop window as well....
...To finish, an airy zabaglione is served in a tiny coupe with the chef’s compliments, in honour of the restaurant’s namesake — the Franciscan lay brother popularly considered the patron saint of pastry chefs...
...According to OryLab Inc, which runs the café, the goal is to use technology to achieve a new form of social participation....
...No pastries, only pre-packaged cereal bars....
...A pair of black cat eye frames by Saint Laurent nearly made the grade, but more than £400 for a first pair of frames plus prescription lenses that I might well lose within weeks seemed steep....
...Website; Directions Terroirs d’Avenir Rue du Nil, 75002 Paris Terroirs d’Avenir owns a vegetable shop, a butcher’s, a fishmonger’s, a cheese shop and a bakery all on the same street....
...Set in an elegant four-storey building still owned by the family, one might mistake the Litografia for an antiques shop, or perhaps an artist’s studio, but it is neither....
...I ventured inside the hotel, into its flower shop and towards a hidden dim room with a hushed atmosphere: Mesa de Hoy, the hotel’s vegan restaurant....
...In the spirit of community, most days find D’Sylva grabbing his lunch next door from Secret Sandwich Shop, a tiny gem hidden behind the green, red and gold façade of The Globe....
...Nearby is an old pastry shop, La Vieille France, where you can buy éclairs in a range of flavours....
...Antoine de Saint-Affrique, its chief executive, told me this week that it would re-emphasise its essential products, such as the yoghurt from which it got its name....
...He has a whisk and a knife tattooed on his neck and a fork beside one eye (a legacy of his ill-starred Rue St Honoré tea shop/pâtisserie/rock venue/gallery/tattoo parlour “Horror Picture Tea”)....
...This isn’t unusual in those luxury shop clusters in nearby Bond Street or Paris’s Rue Saint Honore, or Rome’s Via dei Condotti, where every item costs a fortune. But in Soho, London’s playground?...
...This summer Niland opened his third venue in Sydney called Charcoal Fish, based on the grilled-chicken-shop model....
...The Charlotte-based company, which operates more than 1,700 shops in the US and overseas, is planning to sell almost 27m shares for $21 to $24 apiece....
...W.G. fauchon.com Maison Gosselin, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Normandy “A real gem. For anyone who appreciates quality, this is an amazing shop with fresh and preserved products of all types.”...
...The chief executive of the country’s newest mobile operator, Uy has invested in more than a dozen companies — from pastry shops to energy ventures — in a leverage-backed expansion push in recent years....
...Stylish fine dining: the restaurant of the charming boutique hotel Le Donjon — Domaine Saint Clair, just a short drive from Étretat, recently received its first Michelin star....
...A lady of a certain age strolled along the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris wearing slim navy blue slacks and carrying a matching quilted Chanel handbag....
...How I’ve envied women walking ahead of me down Bond Street or up Madison Avenue or crossing the Rue Saint-Honoré, their slender ankles emphasised by an 11cm stiletto heel....
...analyse your hair and give you dietary advice based on the results.” joshwoodcolour.com Johnny Coca, director of women’s fashion leather goods at Louis Vuitton “I rely on the girls at Des Garçons on Rue Saint-Honoré...
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