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...staff (average age: 30) at Lacroix's salon on the splendid Faubourg St.-Honore exudes confidence. On the morning after last week's show, a pretty young American wisely arrived early to make a purchase: while Lacroix had presented 58 costumes, the house can deliver a total of only 120 pieces. She sighed, snapped shut her purse and said, "Oh well, another $9,000 on the American Express card." She is among the youthful clients haute couture should never have lost and whom Lacroix is luring back. Picart speaks proudly of Lacroix's popularity with show-business people, who usually...
Located on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris' poshest shopping avenue, Minim's features the miniwich, a two-bite sandwich for seven francs (about $1) that is stuffed with such fillings as goose liver pâté or tomato and Gruyère cheese. For a little more than $3, patrons can partake of "eggplant caviar" in an avocado boat or hearts of palm peppered with paprika. While the $6 to $9 bill for a full meal may be more than at a Burger King in Paris, the price beats the $75 average at Maxim...
Prices are indeed high. In the shopping meccas of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Munich's Maximilianstrasse or Brussels' Avenue Louise, a Pierre Cardin tie costs $40, a Réty suit $440 and a Balenciaga handbag $370. Even the cost of window-shopping is steep. Hotel rooms in a smart area of a capital city can easily cost $75 a night, a good dinner for two starts at $60 or more, and a week's car rental often tops $300. Local residents, of course, avoid the stores and services that tourists frequent. Even...
...20th Century-Fox. Even the ficus trees lining the street seem to be part of a grand design by Potemkin. Still, the veteran spendthrift arriving on Rodeo Drive has a sense of déjà vu. No, the street does not possess the discreet elegance of Paris' Rue du Faubourg-St.-Honoré, the stylishness of Rome's Via Condotti or the hustling excitement of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. But the very rich find most of the store names cozy and familiar: Courrèges, Fred Joaillier, Gucci, Hermes. Bally, Céline, Ted Lapidus, Bilari, Nazareno Gabrielli, Battaglia, Mille Chemises, Omega, Saint-Germain...
...notable byproduct of Japan's swift rise to economic superpower status is a mildly bizarre cult of the price tag. Some of the best customers of art galleries on Madison Avenue and the Faubourg St. Honoré these days are dealers from Tokyo or Osaka, their pockets stuffed with yen, who are willing to pay astronomical sums for French impressionist paintings. Japanese buyers are equally conspicuous at the yearling auctions in Saratoga and Deauville, bidding handsomely for the best thoroughbreds. In fact, the Japanese seem to have supplanted the stereotype Texans as the world's most eager status...