Shopping for a Handbag
 

Greetings,
We will be going to Paris in a couple of weeks. We will be staying in the 6th arrondisement. Where is a good place to buy a nice handbag? Any good recommendations?
Thanks in advance to all you Francophiles.
Evelyn

Oh egoodwin, I get a thrill just telling you about shopping for a handbag/handbags in Paris, imagine what I am like THERE!
We stay in the 6th also, there is a Longchamp store near the Blvd St Germain, cannot remember the street.
You can also buy them in Galleries Lafayette, where you will have a choice of Gucci, Prada, and of course, Louis V!
I prefer buying French when in France, but you never know when you might want a little of each country :)
There is a small street that leads you to the Luxembourg Gardens, from the Blvd St Germain, there is a Lancel store there and small boutiques where you can find really nice leather bags that you won't be seeing in the US, or at least not for that price!
Have a lovely time and I hope someone else has a better memory than I today and can supply some street names!

Go to www.herve-chapelier.com if you like the look of the trendy nylon canvas bags. I have three, and I generally carry them in the spring/summer. There are lots of Herve Chapelier boutiques in Paris, one at rue du Vieux Colombier in the 6th. Regardless of whether you want to buy one of this type, the different colors/combinations/styles are fun to look at. Spent more time in that store last trip than I'd like to admit! And you can get detaxe, if you spend enough; just make sure to have them give you the paperwork.

On the same street is a Longchamps store, which, of course, has both the more traditional leather bags and canvas bags also.

The dept. stores will have large handbag departments where you can purchase many different brands.

>...there is a Lancel store on a small street that leads you to the Luxembourg Gardens, from the Blvd St Germain...<

I belive that you are referring to the store at 43 Rue de Rennes. Right across the street from the St-Germain-des-pres metro stop.

ira, you are SO Cool :)

Thank you Scarlett, but my secret is simple.

I use http://pagesjaunes.voila.fr.

Just enter the name of a commercial establishment or an address and you get a description, a map and a picture.

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24, Faubourg Saint-Honoré
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Whatever you do have a great trip and happy shopping!

Ditto

egoodwin-
IF you are anywhere near the Rue Fauborg St Honore and the Ritz plaza==there is a FABULOUS leather handbay store on the left hand of the street on Rue Fauborg on the way to the Louvre...

I cannot remember the name of it, but it ALWAYS has sales, the leather is awesome,unusual,colorful and very very different....An oriental lady owns it and is sooooooooooooo nice...

MY sis went there over Xmas with just the directions that I gave you and she walked away with 6 fabulous handbags..

I have been to that store on Rue Fauborg St Honore and it has the coolest purses at the best prices. I go there every time I am in Paris.

Take the metro to the Opera stop, walk down Rue de Opera (there is a great drug store with good prices along the way on Rue de Opera where I get soap and cosmetics) and take a right onto Rue Fauborg. The store is a few blocks down on the right. There are tons of purses in the window. You can't miss it.

Great Louis Vuitton Boutique on Rue Benoit , no lines and great service. Doesn;t carry the full but can get you a pass into the other stores without waiying in their lines.

Thank you to Scarlett, Grandmere, ira, Katherine, calamari,andy,axmand mrsbu.
I am now ready to shop.
Take care.
Egoodwin

People are Asian. Oriental refers to furniture, objet d'art.

Honey, it is time for your pill.

He is correct but really, no need to correct on this thread because it's so superficial but fun when not much traffic here.
Where is one of my favs?Didier Lamarthe?

You came late to this party so we saved one of the best for last.
BTW, Thin wants to know what handbags we are all carrying?

right now, I'm carrying Martha Stewart's gardening bag, I has my initial, and my favorete olive green color and filling it with slugs I have just impaled and will have aa burial elsewhere. How many have any other exciting bags.
My fav was a neighbor who was very old and had a bag of fine quality leather that was a bit worn. She used this bag to put her dogs turds in when she walked her pup. There were a few kids on bikes that took advandage of these elderly ladies', and riding their bikes, would snatch their handbags.
She became the target one day, and later we laughed imagining his face when he opened er bag.:)

cigale
You are too funny. LOL! Can't think of a bag story at the mo.

I think Scarlett has left for a trip, but she would love this post!

no, she's here I saw her earlier. This is not her type of bag,,lol :)

I am on an Arcadia bag kick at the moment. They are Italian and you can peek at them here:
www.arcadiabags.it