Dans la Galerie Vivienne (2e) le printemps est en fête de 17 au 21 mars. Vous pouvez découvrir des nouvelles collections, cadeaux et surprises dans des nombreuses boutiques de mode, accessoires, livres et déco et vous régaler avec un déjeuner ou afternoon tea chez A Priori Thé.
Spring shopping spree in the Galerie Vivienne (2e). The many cute shops in this beautiful "galerie" celebrate spring from March 17 to 21. Check out the new collections, gifts and surprises. Don't forget to enjoy a delicious lunch or a great tea/coffee with brownies (the real deal) or another mouth watering pie at A Priori Thé.
Juste ce qu'il faut pour battre les grisailles hivernales: changer le look de votre iPod avec un déco de Paris. Pour 9,90€ vous voilà rélooké. Ça fait un excellent cadeau et/ou souvenir.
Just what the doctor ordered to beat winter-blues or grey, a sticker to spice up your iPod in a nice Paris theme. Under 10€ makes a great gift and/or souvenir.
Le jour J s'approche plus rapide qu'on voudrait et on a pas encore fait tout les achats. Pas de panique on est là pour vous aider, pour vous donner des idées et vous indiquer des endroits où trouver des cadeaux originaux.
Par exemple Girlicious et je peux m'arrêter là car je trouverai tous ce que j'ai toujours voulu avoir. Une boutique plein des petits choses qu'on savait même pas qu'on avait besoin, mais qui sont si jolies et finalement devient indispensable. 5, rue Littré, Paris 6e
La Boutique des Inventions Montrant des produits fraichement arrivés en direct depuis le inventeur près de chez vous. Plus originale est dur à trouver. Village Saint Paul Cour orange 13 rue Saint Paul Paris 4ème
pour enfants: La Sardine, Galerie d'illustrateurs, créateurs et photographes ainsi que la boutique /atelier de Clémentine Collinet où elle vend une collection d'objets textiles et papeterie 25 Avenue de Verdun 92120 Montrouge
Pour Femmes: Dollhouse le magasin sexy pour Femmes. Avec sa collection de grand qualité de joujou érotique et lingerie. 24 rue du Roi de Sicile 75004 Paris
Déjà mentionné sur ce blog: La Cocotte la librairie du goût avec son assortiment de livres de cuisines et gadgets.
French Touch avec possibilité d'acheter en ligne ou offline @ 1 rue Jacquemont 75017 Paris, Metro line 13 La Fourche.
Voici un vidéo du site Recycle Now avec des astuces comment emballer vos cadeaux d'une manière originale. A la japonaise avec du tissu. Les morceaux de tissu sont bien évidemment recyclable en sac de shopping par exemple. Ce qui évite des éternelles sacs en plastic. Donc vous faites un cadeau à notre planète aussi! Au pied du Sacré Coeur se trouve toujours le magasin Marché St Pierre et si les magasins autours dans des petites rues ne sont pas transformé en Fast-Food vous pouvez dénicher des jolis tissus.
This video from Recycle Now shows you how to wrap your holiday gifts in a original and green manner. Gift wraps the Japanese way with material that after being unwrapped can be recycled as shopping bag. To find the materials you want to go to Montmartre, to the reference in town: Marché St Pierre. If you're lucky you can still find some small shops in this quartier when they are not replaced by fast-food outlets.
wrapping video link thanks to @guykawasaki via twitter
Finalement un site pour votre shopping écolo, bio, vert en style. Ben oui c'est déjà un peu mieux que avant mais il y a encore trop de produits où l'aspect design est négligé. Chez Green Republic ils ont bien compris que on peut être écologiquement correct ET avoir un site claire, facile à naviguer et jolie à regarder. Le site offre un faste choix en produits de beauté, bien-être, maison, bébé et pour les fête une sélection de coffrets cadeaux. Vous allez faire plus qu'un heureux! Le site contient un blog pour compléter (et pour sauver ma rubrique Blog of the Week!)
Happy Green Shopping There are still too many organic and ecologically correct products that are packed and presented without any touch of style. Luckily that's not the case at Green Republic. Where you can get organic products for beauty, well being, home, baby and for the Holiday season they have 10 gift boxes with different themes. You can make more than one happy with these cuties under the tree.
Ne soyez pas triste si vous ne pouvez pas aller jusqu'à Beijing pour les JO, vous pouvez plonger dans le monde de la mythe de sport: Nike. 250 m2 sur le péniche 1924 (le nom fait référence aux JO de 1924 à Paris) montrant des modèles connues et des customisés par Andrea Crews, Pedro Winter et Felipe Oliveira.
Péniche 1924, Quai Henri IV, 12h-20h jusqu'à 20 août.
Don't be sad if you couldn't make it to Beijing for the Olympics, you can dive into the world of sport myth Nike in the temporary store on a Peniche, called Peniche 1924 (the year that the Olympic games were held in Paris). 250 square meter sporting the famous and some customised models by Andrea Crews, Pedro Winter and Felipe Oliveira Péniche 1924, Quai Henri IV, noon-8pm until August 20
I had this feeling while waking up later as usual that something was wrong. And it hit me while flipping trough off-line media: I missed the Soldes! They start today June 25 and will end August 2nd. Okay I still have a couple of weeks for my bargain hunt. But everybody (the shopping experts) knows that the best bargains are made early on the first day when the shops open at 8 AM.
There are different "schools" like : If you want designer stuff it's in the beginning of the sales. For the basic and utilitarian stuff you can wait till the second Saturday (July 5) For those on small budgets or who don't know what they want or to try out something completely unworldly for you, you can wait till the end when they add another chunk of price reduction on the left overs.
If you belong to those who know what they want and are hunting for designer stuff, soldes experts will tell you to prepare:
Do your "repérage the checking out before the sale where what to buy, try on the right size. (no your feet won't shrink a bit with summer heat) Write it all down and bring your notes with you. (Bring also the sizes of the people you want to buy gifts for) Note that shops do not change or refund what you bought on sale in the wrong size...
Decide on your budget and stick to it, because your credit card limit is not as extensible as your waistline. And you don't want to receive nasty phone calls from your banker when you're showing off your bargains at the Paris-Plage.
Wear comfortable shoes and bring a bottle of water to avoid collapsing from dehydration, unless it's a trick to get that last widget in your size and color.
Now you got everything right I wish you Happy Shopping while I'll sip my 2nd soy-latte and flip trough the magazines dreaming of what i won't buy this season.
Notre Blog de la Semaine vous informe sur le "qui-fait-quoi" avec des sacs de luxe. Vous voulez savoir quel sac est favoris chez les people avant de faire votre choix de location. Sacdeluxe.fr propose un service de location de sac de luxe et de bijoux. Le concept n'est plus très original, mais le blog est un valeur ajouté pour les fans de sacs de luxe dans le monde francophone.
Le temps passe si vite il faut des bonnes chaussures de sports pour le rattraper. 100 ans d'histoire sociologique et design selon Converse sont a voir sur le site officiel. Sur le quel vous pouvez aussi vous procurer ces chaussures cultisme. Ou célébrer votre culte en personnalisant une paire de godasses.
Pour plus d'information, et apparemment il y en a assez pour en faire un blog quotidien, visitez theconverseblog.com
Il parait que il y a des Converse avec une connection USB...
It is said that tourists should not wear sneakers in Paris as not to be so obviously tourists. But on what are you going to walk all these kilometers visiting the city? Even if you go by metro you still will be walking a lot. Better prepare yourself as if you'll be running the New York City Marathon. It's hard to enjoy the city with blisters from walking on your high heel fashionable shoes. You'll get in bad mood, won't enjoy that much and will get fuzzy with the few helpful Parisians. Of course some very high profile places (nightclubs) won't let you in with sneakers unless it's a one of the exclusive pairs, you paid a small fortune for because some celeb has sport them before you.
Here's how you can wear sneakers in style and don't miss out on comfort:
Converse 100 years of history and still going stronger. The French love them, maybe because of May '68, who knows. You can get them in lots of places. It would make a real style statement if you have your own personalised pair.
*Art The Art Company holds the name for a reason: they make creative footwear and incite others to get creative too. With a window shop contest. No, you can't win a price as best window shopper but the shop owner who has made the best window display can, and you can see who is participating: www.the-art-company.com
Veja Makes Fair Trade sneakers Now you can run your heart out knowing that no one has come to harm making these sneakers for you. Get your peace of mind at: Palais de Tokyo, avenue du Président Wilson, 16e Killiwatch, 64 rue Etienne Marcel, 2e Le Refuge, 44 rue Saint-Placide, 6e Le Bon Marché, 24 rue de Sèvre, 7e Le Printemps de l'Homme, 64 boulevard Haussmann, 9e
British Knight The originality about this brand's website is that you can submit your story and picture and makes the consumer provider of content.
Rumor has it that Apple will open a store at the Carrousel du Louvre. Taking up the space of 2 former stores, over 700m2 and 2 floors. our source Nanoblog said it's official, but not so on Apple France's website.
Le bruit cours que Apple va ouvrire un Apple Store dans le Carrousel du Louvre, sur deux étages et vers 700m2. Selon notre source Nanoblog c'est officiel mais ce n'est pas encore confirmé par le service de presse de Apple France. Donc on n'a pas encore une date d'ouverture à vous donner.
When you can't sport your new outfit because the temperatures don't allow it, you can always show of the coffee table book about your favorite designer inside your warm home! Assouline a luxury editor of publications dedicated to design, fashion, jewelry, art, photography and lifestyle will be opening a boutique in May in the New York Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue. Here in Paris we can already enjoy and find great gifts in this gorgeous book-boutique since 2005, on 35 Rue Bonaparte, 6e arr.
As a warm-up for the shopping season, you must know about one of the most original and funny shop: French Touche A Shop-Gallery where you can find great gifts for all those special Aries and Taurus you know, such as bags, jewelry, baby-shower gifts, for men, and home-decoration, lamps etc. But you can also submit your own work of art&craft or music. You can listen to the tune of the day and buy "chansonpoche". Song in your pocket: specially written song by mainly French artists on a mini-cd in the form and size of a credit card with nice protective covers. Online shopping or offline @ 1 rue Jacquemont 75017 Paris, Metro line 13 La Fourche.
It's not only, as the name suggest, a youtube kind of site for shoe lovers, but more a portal or dare i say a platform for shoes with attitude. Shoetube features own videos "daily shoe", and user-generated videos, there are blogs about shoes and forums. You can shop for shoes and donate shoes. Very funny and worth visiting even for those who don't care much about shoes. You can get information and tips about latest trends and how to combine the shoe with your outfit. So you can prepare your next shoe-shopping trip without the blisters!
