Paris is hopping with new boutiques, eating places and exhibitions. Right here’s a curation of these for this couture season.
The place to Store
Rubirosa’s, the newest mission by Paris-based jewellery designer Lauren Rubinski, isn’t about gold and gem stones. Her ancestor Ludovic Élazar Rubinski was a French service provider specialised in cotton and cashmere, who equipped the poplin used for ecclesiastic shirts within the Vatican. These impressed the upscale vary of good pajamas, crisp shirts and buttery moccasins that she is now providing in a slip of a boutique appointed like a curio cupboard.
On-line diamond retailer 77 Diamonds is opening its newest by-appointment showroom on Place Vendôme in order that jewellery lovers can cease by to create bespoke diamond-set baubles. It’s a serious stepping stone because the 20-year-old firm headquartered in London gears as much as broaden throughout Europe and the Center East.
It’s not simply the doorways of its first formal flagship that French heritage leather-based items model Létrange is opening on Place Vendôme. Chairman Sébastien Létrange, the seventh era of the founding household, has determined to comply with up its retail condo journey with one other offbeat concept: opening tremendous vintages drawn from the household wine cellar. And naturally, the vary of putting luggage impressed by his adventurous and enterprising ancestors are given delight of place on this 1,650-square-foot ground-floor house.
Ghanaian American designer Kwame Adusei has opened his second standalone retailer within the Marais, following his flagship in Beverly Hills. Recognized for his fashionable tackle African design cues, Adusei creates sharp but beneficiant cuts in cropped blazers, moto jackets and trousers, and is already a celeb favourite worn by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Kylie Jenner and Ciara. Adusei is dedicated to sustainability, utilizing deadstock supplies and producing in his personal 15-person workshop in Los Angeles, with a lot of the gathering made-to-order, thus avoiding overproduction. The Paris retailer displays Adusei’s ethos: the 820-square-foot house is crammed with antiques he sourced from the Saint-Ouen flea market and sits above an atelier for tailoring and customization, and promotes his slow-fashion rules.
Barcelona-based jewellery model MAM has opened its first standalone retailer exterior of Spain with an immersive, art-infused house centered round an set up referred to as “The Sanctuary of Gaia.” MAM’s sustainable, sculptural and genderless designs are supposed to be wearable artwork and are laid out exhibit-style within the house that encourages a sensory expertise. Earthy, undulating earrings and bracelets vary from 150 euros to 550 euros, whereas intricate headpieces hit the highest vary at 2,500 euros. All of MAM’s works are handcrafted at their ateliers in Barcelona. The model, based in 2014 by Jordi Enrique Albert and Anthya Tirado, is on the cusp of world enlargement with their subsequent outpost slated to open in Mexico Metropolis this fall.
Jacques Solovière
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French footwear model Jacques Solovière has opened its second boutique in Paris. A minimalist house housed behind a traditional Haussmannian façade, the boutique options mild and pure supplies, with matte textures and custom-designed fashionable furnishings, reminiscent of half-moon seating and an out-of-this world mild set up, creating a peaceful, soothing cocoon. The model, began in 2014 by Alexia Aubert, focuses on refined, Italian-made footwear like loafers, slippers and derbies on show within the 800-square-foot house. The model’s signature Edouard Lug returns in two new shades: Odissea Navy and Crema Grained. Retailer visits can be found by appointment solely. — Lily Templeton and Rhonda Richford
Rubirosa’s, 7 Rue de Grenelle, 75007
77 Diamonds, 10 Place Vendôme, 75001
Létrange, 4 Rue de la Paix, 75001
Kwame Adusei, 15 Rue du Vertbois, 75003
MAM, 30 Rue de Sévigné, 75004
Jacques Solovière, 3 Rue Molière, 75001
The place to Eat
Already in excessive demand, Le Grand Café is the Grand Palais’ 320-seat brasserie tucked on the stone terrasse in a 6,000-square-foot house that was as soon as house to the establishment’s archive, on the Champs-Elysées facet. Underneath the 8-meter ceiling, inside architect Joseph Dirand used heat tones nodding to the constructing’s authentic options and flooring — the place velvet banquettes outline alcove-like tables. Monumental, aged mirrors mirror the Petit Palais, so nobody misses out even seated away from the home windows. The menu presents a chiseled tackle French brasserie meals. A must-try is the Comté-and-truffles soufflé, however you received’t be upset by turbot quenelles, salmon and sorrel or arch-classic peppercorn beef fillet. Don’t neglect the Colin Discipline-signed cocktails on the bar — and the reside jazz band at 8 p.m. each night.
Neo-bistro Kimono is a nod to the Japanese group that turned Paris’ Montparnasse space into its house within the Twenties. The star right here is the Futosoba, a home creation that’s the love baby between thick-cut udon and the aromatic buckwheat soba. The restaurant had a standard Japanese mill specifically made to craft its personal flour and makes use of a specialised machine replicating conventional kneading strategies to arrange its noodles contemporary and able to be served scorching, chilly or as a salad.
Air France is touchdown a brand new version of its pop-up restaurant on the rooftop of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann for the summer season months. Dubbed “Le Restaurant,” the spot will supply an expertise centered across the airline’s enterprise class service, with dishes signed by triple Michelin-starred chef Régis Marcon, who drew inspiration from nature and notably that of the central-southern area of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes he hails from. And don’t miss the desserts by Nina Métayer, the primary girl to be named World’s Greatest pastry chef in 2023.
It’s a little bit of schlep to get to Thaddeus Ropac’s outpost in Pantin, a northeast suburb of Paris. However now, along with sprawling blue-chip artwork shows in an enormous former foundry, a wonderful caprese salad additionally awaits, or a plate of San Daniele. Final month, the Austrian artwork seller christened Café Bleu, which might host greater than 40 lunch friends on its colourful wicker chairs and comfortable brown banquettes. It was realized by Pierre Pelegry, creative director of Maxim’s and founding father of Ligne Blanche, which produces porcelain tableware, scented candles and desk linens in collaboration with the foundations of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others.
Café Bleu
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The art-bedecked Limoges porcelain provides a way of place to Café Bleu, particularly since Ligne Blanche additionally works with dwelling artists together with Georg Baselitz, whose huge work of himself and his spouse Elke are on show in Pantin till July 26.
The café is about in a separate, cottage-like constructing and it feels a bit like an escape with its rustic colours, tile flooring and comfy ambiance. “The concept is to do easy meals with the perfect elements,” stated Pelegry, who has stored Maxim’s roaring for almost 30 years.
For now, all lunch dishes are chilly, however well-priced and attractive, just like the sliced salmon and avocado salad for 16 euros. The eatery can be open for breakfast and afternoon tea. — L.T. and Miles Socha
Le Grand Café, 1 Place Clémenceau, 75008
Tel.: +33 1 85 09 40 50
Kimono, 66 Rue du Cherche-Midi, 75006
Tel.: +33 1 42 22 32 15
Air France, On the terrasse of Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, by means of Aug. 20
40 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009
Reservation by means of the Air France website
Café Bleu, 69 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 93500
Tel.: +33 1 55 89 01 13
The place to Drink
In the event you needed to sum up the American dream of Paris in a single deal with, it could little doubt appear like La Renommée. Behind the facade of a former Nineteenth-century grocer, the primary deal with of U.S.-based restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff, of Hogsalt fame, is a comfy bolt gap with artwork sourced within the metropolis’s flea markets, plush leather-based banquettes and an enviable menu of French classics with a world twist. Don’t miss the expansive cocktail menu, or the bar downstairs. — L.T.
La Renommée
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La Renommée, 95 Rue Saint-Honoré, 75001
Tel.: +33 1 40 39 93 70
The place to Keep
Villa Junot, the primary Parisian mission of French private-home rental enterprise Iconic Home, is about marrying the allure of a non-public residence with upscale providers befitting a five-star property. Inside this meticulously restored Twenties city home in Montmartre with sweeping views of the Parisian skyline from its rooftop are 5 en-suite bedrooms, a cathedral-style lounge, a devoted kids’s room, an expert kitchen and a wellness space with a fitness center, sauna and indoor pool. Design particulars all through the property are impressed by the constructing’s first proprietor, French operetta author and composer André Mauprey. Providers embody a non-public chef and devoted concierge, able to cater to residents’ tastes and wishes.
Villa Junot
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Is it a five-star lodge? Is it workplaces? Is it a sports activities membership? Is it an artwork house? La Fondation is all the above — after which some. Imagined as a 100,000-square-foot hub in a putting Brutalist constructing set between Parc Monceau and the Batignolles, it presents 58 keys, together with three suites; two eating places and a rooftop below the course of govt chef Thomas Rossi, beforehand on the helm of Mimosa; a sports activities facility that comes with the newest machines, a climbing wall, a 25-meter pool, a sauna and a hammam, and a spa utilizing French manufacturers Typology and Ho Karan, which concentrate on natural de-stressing skincare therapies. — L.T.
Villa Junot by Iconic Home, 18 bis Avenue Junot, 75018
Reservations: reserving.iconic.home
La Fondation, 40 Rue Legendre, 75017
Tel.: +33 1 78 77 70 00
The place Artwork Meets Garments
It was solely a matter of time earlier than Jordan Roth, a Broadway producer turned rabid vogue fan, would additionally flip his hand to design. That second got here shortly after the New Yorker started making ready for “Radical Acts of Unrelenting Magnificence,” a efficiency piece premiering on July 10 on the Louvre throughout Paris Couture Week.
“It grew to become clear that the garments and the efficiency have been so inextricably linked — have been really the identical — that I’ve designed the garments as a part of creating the piece,” he advised WWD in an emailed interview squeezed between rehearsals in New York.
Roth is the principle star, together with six dancers shifting to a rating by Thomas Roussel, including as much as a spectacle that “sits on the nexus of theater, vogue and artwork.”
“It makes use of the language of music, motion, projections, connection and the ritual of dressing to discover the dynamics of identification, magnificence and its capability for self-expression and transformation, all by means of the basic components of vogue — material and emotion,” he stated.
The three back-to-back performances coincide with, and reference, a vogue exhibition working on the museum by means of July 21 titled “Louvre Couture: Artwork and Vogue — Assertion Items.”
“The edge between the exhibition and the efficiency is the magnificent crimson Dior high fashion piece by John Galliano that’s exhibited within the Napoleon Flats overlooking the Cour Marley, the place the efficiency will likely be,” Roth defined. “It’s the wanting glass by means of which I and the viewers dive into the dream we’ll discover collectively. You’ll see what I imply.”
The performances are free and open to the general public through registration. Roth calls it nothing lower than “an invite to contemplate the chance that we’re the artwork, that we’re the canvas of ourselves.” — M.S.
“Radical Acts of Unrelenting Magnificence,” July 21 between 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Louvre, 99 Rue de Rivoli, 75001
No reservations
The place to Soak up Artwork
Charles Frederick Price, who’s credited with founding high fashion, is the topic of a retrospective on the Petit Palais museum, the primary main retrospective of the English designer in France. It options greater than 400 works, together with 80 items of clothes.
Paul Poiret‘s fashions, which famously freed ladies from the corset and took many cues from Japanese cultures, have impressed many designers, together with Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano and Dries Van Noten. Seems by such creators determine in “Vogue Is a Feast,” the exhibit devoted to Poiret, on the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
There’s an exhibition that includes Rick Owens’ oeuvre on the Palais Galliera, which exudes many moods, together with from couture-like attire and capes in hovering felt niches to a life-like statue of the designer urinating right into a steel trough.
The present on the Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris brings collectively greater than 110 works, together with work, drawings, prints, sculptures and ceramics, which mirror Henri Matisse’s view of his daughter Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse.
“Marguerite lisant,” by Henri Matisse
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The Musée Maillol has culled greater than 350 images by Robert Doisneau, marking the primary exhibit of his works in Paris for a few years. These embody iconic pictures alongside lesser-known ones.
Ramdane Touhami and Émile Shahidi have simply opened The Radical Media Archive, a gallery they describe as a basis for the preservation of other press, graphic publications, revolutionary artwork and utopian design. Its first exhibition, referred to as “Phrases Sounds Colours & Shapes,” presents a smidgen of the archive. — Jennifer Weil and M.S.
“Price: Inventing Haute Couture,” till Sept. 7
Petit Palais, 2 Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008
“Vogue Is a Feast,” till Jan. 11, 2026
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001
“Rick Owens, Temple of Love,” till Jan. 4, 2026
Palais Galliera, 10 Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75116
“Matisse and Marguerite,” till Aug. 24
Musée d’Artwork Moderne de Paris, 11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116
“Robert Doisneau: Instants Donnés,” till Oct. 12
Musée Maillol, 61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007
“Phrases Sounds Colours & Shapes,” till Dec. 31
Radical Media Archive, 1 Rue Eugène Spuller, 75003
The place Okay-beauty Is Rising
The Okay-beauty wave retains rising in Paris, with the latest opening of Moida Okay-Magnificence on the Proper Financial institution. There, cabinets are stocked with merchandise from the likes of Tirtir, Biodance, Medicube, Nature Republic, Great thing about Joseon and CosRX.
Moida
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In the meantime, the BHV division retailer’s “Korean Wave” pop-up has as a part of its choice magnificence from South Korea. Agaskin pulled collectively eight manufacturers, together with Torriden, Axis-y, Urang, Expensive and Klairs. Nüd Korean Home of Magnificence presents therapies for the face and physique. And the Mi-rê model, linking French and Korean savoir-faire, can be supplied right here. — J.W.
Moida Okay-Magnificence, 17 Rue de Pont Neuf, 75001
“Korean Wave,” till July 13 on the BHV, 52 Rue de Rivoli, 75004
The place to Sweat
For the Reformer Pilates devotees on the market, Kore is the spot to know. Considered one of its two places is on Rue Réaumur, a stone’s throw away from the Opéra space. With a 12-place studio and a separate house for personal teaching, its focus is 50-minute high-intensity, low-impact exercise periods — almost sweat-free however extremely efficient — focusing on the higher physique and abs on a specifically developed machine.
Kore
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Pressed for time? With Spark Membership, a first-of-its-kind idea in Paris of health finished in an infrared chamber, you received’t have any extra excuses. This spot is all about getting your blood pumping in little greater than quarter-hour doing yoga, Pilates, biking or on an indoor rower. Group periods are restricted to a few folks. — L.T.
Kore, 103 Rue Réaumur, 75002
Reservations: kore-studio.com
Spark Membership, 8 Rue Bellini, 75116
Tel.: +33 1 59 13 35 10
