Paris is the world’s hub of high art. It inspired Van Gogh, it revolutionized cinema, and it even elevates food into an art.
If you consider yourself an art lover, you will fall in love with the city of romance as much, if not more, than anyone you can go with. But there are a lot of hotspots around the city that can help that relationship along. If your passion for art comes in the form of fashion, dig out your best beret and hit the streets for a fashion culture city wide crawl.
Skip the Mona Lisa for the Musée de la Mode et Du Textile
Where the Louvre is made for the art lover, the Musée de la Mode et Du Textile is made for the fashion lover. Once you’ve seen Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa, head to the subsection of the Louvre that is dedicated to fashion and textiles.
It incorporates fashion and history into 6,000 presented items, and plenty more kept backstage, ranging from the modern pieces that have made France the fashion capital of the world to the French regency costumes that started the trend.
Find works by Jeanne Lanvin, Pierre Balmain, Azzedine Alaia, and Christian Dior, to name but a few.
Enter the Chanel Boutique
The entryway alone of famed designer Coco Chanel is enough to ooze class and fashion over your photo collection. If the beautiful white décor outside impresses you, you will be entirely blown away by what’s inside.
31 Rue Cambon holds the apartment that was both home of Coco Chanel and beautiful boutique, where you can buy yourself a bottle of the classic perfume or a Christmas red lipstick. Even if you’re low on funds for a classic statement designer piece to travel Paris in, the boutique is picturesque enough to justify a trip.
Window shop through Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
You’ve seen the Eiffel Tower, you’ve met Mickey Mouse, what else does Paris offer? Only one of the best hotspots for a fashion lover.
A stroll through Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré will light up your eyes as you stroll through the high fashion stores, all located within the beautiful architecture of the Parisienne streets. Browse through the beautiful boutiques as you wander through the narrow street, which has every high fashion designer, from Chloe to Givenchy to admire.
For more window shopping, head to Boulevard Saint-Germain for an even more high fashion experience. The glamour will blind you as you browse the up-upmarket boulevard. Find designers like Hugo Boss, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, and Ralph Lauren.
You can also find the iconic Café de Flore, the oldest coffeehouse in Paris, which is famous for its celebrity visitors and its inspiration in art by Picasso and Phillipe Derome.
Visit the Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Paris is one of the few places on this wide world where a designer could open their own museum, showcasing their work through the decades.
If you head to 5 Avenue Marceau, you will find the chic little couture house where Yves Saint Laurent worked for almost 30 years. It reopened in October 2017 as a dedication to the famed designer, showcasing all the best of his collections from 1974 to 2002.
The exhibits are ever changing, so you won’t see the same fabulous design twice, the way high fashion should be, with retrospectives and thematic exhibits coming and going with the times.
But there is even more to see beyond all this. If you are interested in visiting Paris, get all the little things like travel insurance sorted, a provider like Staysure, can get the insurance side sorted but make sure you keep flicking through airbnb now and then, you never know whether a quirky apartment pops up that makes all these places much more accessible.