Paris Travel Guide & Tips, According to Fashion Editors

Twice a year, the international fashion flock descends on Paris to view the prêt-à-porter collections: Dior! Chanel! Balenciaga! Between runway presentations, everyone grabs lunch at a classic Parisian brasserie, sneaks in a shopping trip, and, after hours, dances in tiny boîtes like the one in the Hotel Amour. An editor’s version of Paris is as curated as the pages of a magazine, which is why we turned to Harper’s Bazaar’s fashion team, including editor-in-chief Samira Nasr, for some favorite Parisian haunts.

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Cristaseya

It’s no surprise that Château Voltaire, the hotel currently beloved by the fashion crowd, was conceived by industry legend Thierry Gillier, founder of the popular French contemporary brand Zadig & Voltaire, who as far back as the ’90s was mixing sweatpants with cashmere and lace. He brought together the design studio Festen and creative director Franck Durand (husband of stylist Emmanuelle Alt) to create what Gillier describes as a “no-design hotel, like a home that had already been there a hundred years.”

The hotel’s restaurant—Brasserie l’Emil—is a destination for people-watching and classic dishes like frisée salad with lardons and beef tartare. Other buzzy reservations include chef Mory Sacko’s Michelin-starred MoSuke, which draws from Sacko’s West African heritage, as well as French and Japanese influences. While every Francophile has a preferred bistro—Brasserie Lipp and Le Chateaubriand among them—the discrete Le Voltaire, located in a building where the writer once lived, is a Fashion Week mainstay.

Studio Bouroullec

The exterior of the Bourse de Commerce

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The exterior of A Young Hiker

Shopping is approached with professional efficiency: A targeted acquisition at Alaïa is made in record time between shows. But there are also the only-in-Paris destinations like Charvet on Place Vendôme, which has been making tailored shirting since 1838 (and which makes Nasr’s favorite woven elastic belts), and the intentionally low-profile Cristaseya, beloved for its knits and roomy wardrobe staples, which is located on the first floor of an unmarked building at number 7 rue Ambroise Thomas. A Young Hiker, the concept store from entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami that sells gear and clothing for outdoor enthusiasts, is a new destination for cool, under-the-radar merch. Gifts are scooped up at interior designer India Mahdavi’s Petits Objets shop on the rue Las Cases.

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The dining room at MoSuke

Though the schedule is packed, soaking up culture is a must; you never know where the next idea might spark. Hauser & Wirth’s new gallery on rue François 1er debuted a much-anticipated Rashid Johnson show last month. At the Bourse de Commerce, the three-year-old arts center transformed by Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando to house the Pinault Collection, the main draw is the exhibition of the Arte Povera movement. And on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton is “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &…,” featuring pop art from the 1960s, along with Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera’s first solo show in France.

This article was originally featured in the November 2024 Issue of Harper’s Bazaar

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