⚜️ Bourgine silk dancing shoes & Kissa listening bar! A Week in Paris
A new week, a fresh edit of what to see, do and love in Paris (and the Saint-Ouen Flea Market). Celebrating Paris makers and the strange, new, true & beautiful, forever!
⚜️ A new project from our friends at Bourgine, Souliers Dulion brings back the exquisite silk dancing shoes of the 18th century – as worn by, say, Marie-Antoinette or Joséphine de Beauharnais – for today’s modern muses. Handcrafted in Italy from the finest French silk.
🍷 Kissa Paris, a new listening bar inside the Marché des Enfants Rouges from our friend Nikos. Brutalist meets Arte Povera aesthetics, Mediterranean sharing plates, natural wines (including Nikos’s own label Habiba Wine), and vinyl spinning while the market hums around you.
🧢 Patine Paris – Paris’s own mission-driven, fun fashion house – has closed Rue Martel ahead of a colourful new flagship next year. In the meantime, this just-opened two-month pop-up at 11 Rue Debellyme presents a new drop of feel-good essentials to (re)wear now, tomorrow, and for years to come.
💄 At Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche (in time for Paris Design Week, which opens Thursday), local talents Untitled 19 channel Meret Oppenheim with surrealist objects for the home at the crossroads of fashion and design: stones recast as stools and cutlery, a disco ball reborn as a plate, the eternal power of red lipstick…
🪩 Inspired by the free and collective energy of the disco movement, the Design Disco Club exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations celebrates design as a space for freedom, emotion, and sharing. Opens Friday.
🍨 For a final taste of summer: the new artisanal ice-cream spot Isotope Paris is serving seasonal scoops crafted by chef Frances – think cucumber-mint, pistachio-praline, or watermelon-olive oil. 8 rue Dupetit-Thouars.