Agnès b.
2-4, 6, & 19 rue du Jour, 1st 6 & 10-12 rue du Vieux Colombier, 6th 13 rue de Marseille, 10th
A quintessential Parisian fashion brand for men, women and children, including accessories and leather goods.Galerie Schmit
396 rue St-Honoré, Paris 75001 Métro: Concorde
One of the top galleries in town, run by third-generation owner Manuel Schmit, offering museum-quality paintings by 19th- and 20th-century French masters, including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Matisse, Caillebotte, Boudin, Seurat, Signac, Sisley, Redon and Vuillard, along with Klee, Miró, Modigliani and Jongkind.Le Prince Jardinier
46 rue du Bac Paris 75007
Elegant garden furniture, gardening equipment, home decor and outdoor ready-to-wear from the brand founded by Louis Albert de Broglie.Dior
30 avenue Montaigne Paris 75008
This household name of fashion, accessories, fragrances and beauty has been a staple in high fashion since Christian Dior's "New Look" surfaced at the designer's first fashion show as an independent designer in 1947.Antoine & Lili
95 quai de Valmy; 87 rue de Seine; 17 rue du Jour Paris 75010; 75006; 75001
One of the first fashion hot spots along the Canal Saint Martin: three adjacent stores with crayon-colored facades—hot pink for womenswear, canary yellow for kitsch home decor, lime green for kids’ clothes, toys and gifts. Now branched out into Saint Germain des Prés and the old Les Halles areas.Au Nain Bleu
252 blvd Saint-Germain Paris 75007
The city’s most famous toyshop, with a vast selection of playthings deluxe.Edifice
27bis rue du Bac Paris 75007 Métro: Rue du Bac
High-end modern and contemporary furniture and household accessories by famous names past—includingLe Corbusier—and current designers such as Gaetao Pesce and Christian Ghion.Avril Gau
17 rue des Quatres Vents Paris 6th Métro: Odéon
If you’ve worn shoes by Robert Clergerie, Chanel, Charles Jourdan or Stéphane Kélian in the last 20 years, chances are you’ve worn Avril Gau's handiwork. Her new boutique in Saint Germain des Prés is the first dedicated to her own label of shoes, bags and gloves, and it’s earning rave reviews from Parisian fashion mavens. Her sleek pumps, sandals and ballerina flats in top-quality leather, reptile and lambskin are a welcome departure from currently ubiquitous platform stilettos.Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
83 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré Paris 75008 Métro: Miromesnil
The gallery that organized Van Gogh’s first Paris exhibit in 1901 and later presented Cézanne, Matisse and others is still run by descendants of the founder and still exhibits contemporary artists.FrenchTrotters
128 rue Vieille du Temple Paris 3rd
This beautiful store in the upper Marais is for devotees of timeless French chic, with a handpicked collection of exclusively French fashion brands—menswear, womenswear and a superb housewares collection. There are also books and hard-to-find European cosmetics brands.Le Marchand d’Etoiles
4 rue du Pont aux Choux Paris 75003
The Star Merchant is the French equivalent of the Sandman, and the shop specializes in children’s nightwear—velour pajamas, angel-winged nightgowns, gold-dotted and star-studded boxer shorts.Michel Chaudun
149 rue de l’Université Paris 75007
A wonderful chocolate shop filled with traditional filled chocolates and trompe l’oeil creations including chocolate gargoyles. Specialties are the dark pastilles filled with crunchy bits of cocoa bean and the melt-in-your-mouth pavés, little cubes of cocoa-dusted ganache.