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agnès b
Style and photography guru agnès b excels in extremely wearable, durable and comfortable (yet sometimes quirky) clothes. She also happens to be one of the more affordable Parisian designers. The basics are excellent; the rest has somewhat lost its cachet of late. On the same street you'll find her men's and children's stores.
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Issey Miyake
Issey Miyake's avant-garde designs strike a fine balance between tradition and innovation, handcrafting and textile technology. Beauty and functionality are integral to his ethos, and he has a devoted following around the world. This is his flagship store.
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Les Belles Images
The kind of place that would be at home on London's Carnaby St c 1970, this retro boutique stocks Vivienne Westwood originals among other wild-child designers as well as ab-fab homewares.
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Marché aux Puces d'Aligre
Smaller but more central than Paris' other three flea markets, this market is one of the best places in Paris to rummage through cardboard boxes filled with old clothes and one-of-a-kind accessories worn decades ago by fashionable (and not-so-fashionable) Parisians.
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Marché aux Puces de la Porte de Vanves
Paris' smallest flea market is nonetheless worth scouting out for original retro homewares such as '60s cocktail shakers and '70s lamps, as well as new clothes, leather boots, handbags and wallets. The market is located about 2.5km southwest of the Catacombs.
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Shine
Get glammed up at this trendsetting boutique stocking hand-picked pieces from the current crop of designer darlings such as Stella McCartney's creations for Chloé.
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Sonia Rykiel
In the heady days of May 1968, amid Paris' student uprisings, Sonia Rykiel opened her inaugural boutique here; she went on to revolutionise garments with her inverted seams, 'no hems' and 'no lining'. Her diffusion labels are housed in separate boutiques nearby.
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Tati
With its war cry of les plus bas prix (lowest prices) - and quality to match - Tati has been Paris' great working-class clothing store for 50 years. Don't be surprised to see trendy Parisians fighting for bargains hidden in the crammed bins and piled high on tables.
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Un Chien dans le Marais
For the dog that has everything. This little boutique stocks nothing but dog outfits in all sizes. Pick out a design perfectly suited to your pooch from the latest winter and summer 'collections' while owner Franck Woerther's pet rabbits, Thelma and Louise, lope underfoot (Thelma was actually belatedly discovered to be a boy, but hey, this is the Marais, baby).
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