The Left bank is the ideal district to go to the sales. Here is a survey of the addresses the most appreciated, do not miss it especially in sales period.

In wish shops to go?

Au Bon Marché, 38 rue de Sèvres: hurry, reductions already reach (affect) 70 %!

At Brand Bazar, 33 rue de Sèvres: our favorite shop …

At Céline, 16 rue de Grenelle: a 200m² space which offers a 40% sales on a small selection of articles.

At Isabel Marant, 1 rue Jacob: the most appreciated creator of the left bank proposes sales until 50%. Be careful, the main products of the collection are leaving very fast.

At Carven, 36 rue Saint Sulpice: here are the small dresses with a 40 % sales of the trendiest creator of the moment …

Where to have lunch?

In the sales euphoria, we tend to forget to feed. Not to risk the disorientation, we lunch in shops, in the middle of clothes, as Ralph’s (173 Boulevard Saint-Germain) or Armani Café (149 Boulevard Saint-Germain).

Some advices

- Get easy dressed. Useless to block your arm with a bag, you will need your two hands to hope to leave with the best affair, thus prefer a bag over the shoulder. And put some ballerinas, to have no laces or no reins to be connected!

- Do not look at the new collection. There will always be a carrying “new collection ” to defy us, in the middle of the pieces that we watched for all winter. But especially, we stay calm: anyway, it is so cold to wear a top with braces (even signed Prada) and you will have all your time weather after the sales to attack you in this new collection.

To begin 2012 in a good way, le Bon Marché dedicates an exhibition to love. You are going to say: vast subject. But it is more complicated than that: in reality, the event is articulates around a certain number of the people friends, of the left bank store, who share for this special event their ” place of love “. It can be the symbol of a meeting, a childhood memory, or a first kiss, thanks to a personal photography and some explanatory lines. More than around thirty entered into the spirit of the game for this unique and charming exhibition. Henceforth we know that Isabel Marant likes coconut palms, Fifi Chachnil the Moulin Rouge wings and Benoît Missolin the New York streets crossings…

Among other expected people: Sam Baron, Bobbi Brown, Vanessa Bruno, Victoire de Castellane, Tsumori Chisato, Géraldine Cohen, Peter Copping, Matali Crasset, Jérôme Dreyfuss, Olivier Echaudemaison, Inès de la Fressange, Christian Ghion, Terry de Gunzburg, Jaime Hayon, Guillaume Henry, Gilles Jacob, Mary Katrantzou, Isabel Marant, Benoît Missolin, Florence Müller, Rick Owens, Gaia Repossi, Nathalie Rykiel, Paul Smith …

There is a treasure just a step from the hotel! Brand Bazar is a multibrands and welcoming shop, where everybody seems to know eachother. A kind of general mess transgénérationnel, where we are use to stop to look for the new products.

But Brand Bazar, it is above all a history(story) of family: he(it) there ten years, the sister Samson dashes on the same model as their relatives(parents), already owners of one certain number of multi-marks(multi-brands) in Paris, by settling down street of Sèvres. And ten years later, we feel always little as in the dressing room there, without he(it) is 1 000 times as voluminous. ” We opened to a period when all the shops began to be alike, of the kind(genre) ” tout-en-bois-avec-des-cintres-parfaitem ent-alignés-et-une-orchidée-sur-la-tabl e ” Nathalie, one of both managers remembers. ” Typically the kind of place where we are afraid of entering. ” In their shop, nothing of all this. There is everywhere: on walls, on carrying, on ground…  everything mixs Dresses preppy in furs more bling. Then we search, we peel everything with the fear of missing something, and in the end(final), we make it necessarily a find.

” We go to New York, to London, to Berlin, to Milan, to Hong-Kong and we look at all which passes. ” Admit Nathalie. Not surprising, thus, whether it was one of the first ones(nights) to propose rooms(parts,plays) Carven in Paris, in a time(period) when ” nobody tried to know who was Guillaume Henry. ” All in all, more we count more than 150 marks(brands), among which Laurence Doligé, Sonia by Sonia Rykiel, A.P.C, See by Chloé, MM6 and Valentine Gauthier.

And know that in a few days, you can throw(cast) yourselves on 10 rooms(parts,plays) drawn exclusively by creators for the shop …

Brand Bazar, 33 Rue Sèvres  75006 Paris

www.brandbazar.com