29 Best Places to Shop in The French Riviera, France

Everything here is 100% made in France. The selection of timeless, practical, and beautifully crafted items from artisans across the country includes clothing, homeware, toys, cosmetics, and fragrances.

Opened in 2024 and designed by Dorothée Meilichzon, this boutique offers Italian-crafted citrus-infused fragrances, indulgent body care products, and personalization services. 

This tiny shop sells olive oil by the gallon (and other quantities), packaged in containers featuring its famous, old-fashioned, blue-and-yellow labels.

Roberto works with the finest Italian leather to make bags, belts, shoes, bracelets, and accessories. International delivery is available if you can't quite squeeze everything in your luggage. 

At this shop next to the Bastide de Moustiers, second-generation potter Franck Scherer custom-made plates for Alain Ducasse's auberges. You can visit the workshop and buy pieces with tiny flaws at a reduced price.

Forgot to pack a holiday read? Fear not. This charming bookshop has an English section toward the back (you'll know it by the bookcase masquerading as a red London phone box). A little café springs into life for regular author events.

If circular fashion is your bag, this is the place for you. Where better to shop preloved pieces than Cannes? Sustainability never looked so stylish. 

Dutch fashion designer and artist Caroline Dechamby hand-paints the rings and leather purses for sale at the space she shares with Carousel Fine Art. The pop artist also works with Swiss watchmakers for her limited-edition art series—in case you can't squeeze one of the paintings that are also for sale into your suitcase.

Open every day except Christmas, this shop is a good source for candied fruit (a Nice specialty). It's on the west side of the port, near the Marché aux Puces.

This "cabinet of wonders" showcases luxurious jewelry by Aurélie Bidermann and Gigi Clozeau among others along with books, candles, fragrances, luxury stationery, and beauty products from the organic Corsican brand, Casanera. Adjacent are two boutiques with a curated selection of home decor, furniture, and lighting.

Remember the joy and wonder upon entering that toy store from your childhood? Recapture it here with playthings of yesterday and today. You'll find wooden educational toys and games, music boxes, kaleidoscopes, and gifts for newborns. 

Fishermen display their catches of sea bream, scorpion fish, octopus, and more at this lively, covered market that's held Thursday through Saturday from 8 am to 1 pm.

With an exquisite collection of vintage furniture, contemporary art, and unique ceramics and housewares, this is a chic shopping destination for art and design enthusiasts.

France's third-largest regroupment of antiques collectors forms a triangle from Place Garibaldi to the port (Quai Papacino) and along Rue Catherine Ségruane at the bottom of the château. Shops along Rue Antoine Gautier and Rue Emmanuel Philibert are worth exploring, as are Le Village Ségurane and Marché aux Puces on Quai Lunel. In addition, Place Garibaldi hosts a morning antiques market on the third Saturday of the month.

Unless you have a very large suitcase, you'll probably do more looking than buying at this intriguing antiques shop that specializes in navigational tools, ship lanterns, and other nautical accoutrements of yesteryear.

This consignment store specializes in gently used clothing and accessories from the likes of Chanel, Prada, Hermès, Vuitton, and Gucci.

Come to this authentic Provençal wickerwork store, in business for over a century, to shop for woven baskets and bags.

This playful boutique is a haven for adorable children’s items, colorful home decor, and charming gifts. From quirky stationery to unique accessories, every item is thoughtfully curated to spark joy.

This is a great place for discovering contemporary and stylish pieces. Look for high-end, fashionable clothing and accessories for women from French and Italian designers—something golden and glitzy by Paco Rabanne, perhaps, for that special soirée or an oh-so-chic chapeau from Maison Michel Paris (part of Chanel's Métiers d'Arts division).

Stock up here on local olive oils, local food specialties, and cork crafts.

You have to hand it to the French: they even do secondhand fashion right. Steps away from the Hôtel Negresco, Mademoiselle is a must-stop shop in Nice. Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hermès—you name it, the gang's all here, at least in vintage terms. In addition to luxury-brand clothes, there are shoes, bags, and belts—all of it excellently priced and gorgeously displayed by owner Sephora Louis.

The venerable house of Henri Auer has been selling chocolate and candied fruit since 1820.

This independent shop sells reasonably priced clothes, quirky accessories, and jewelry, as well as candles, cushions, and other gift items. In addition to this branch in the antiques district by the port, there's a branch at  32 Rue Bonaparte. 

The exhaustive list of decorative treasures here includes candles, artisanal ceramics from French and international designers, photo albums, and gifts. The owner curates each piece, and if your eyes are bigger than your suitcase, international shipping is available. 

Come here for the best selection of Provençal olive oils in town. Oliviera is run by the passionate Nadim Beyrouti, who also serves Mediterranean dishes made with the finest local ingredients.

The aorta of the village, connecting with Rue Gambetta and Rue Allard, this square overflows with regional produce and foodstuffs, as well as clothing and brocantes (secondhand items), every Tuesday and Saturday morning.

You wear those strappy sandals back home, but are they the real sandales Tropeziennes? Here's your chance to pick up the genuine, handmade article at Rodini, St-Tropez's original cobbler, established in 1927.

For the jet-set pet, Star Dog and Cat Boutique has luxe leashes, blingy collars, and even Oh My Dog! cologne to get Fido's tail wagging.

For an olfactory reminder of the south of France head to this perfumier dedicated to rare and high-end fragrances. Brands range from Maison Francis Kurkdjian to Le Labo, the cult-favorite dreamed up in nearby Grasse.