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...like places that tellthe real stories of Paris," says Christian Louboutin, sitting in his cluttered office on the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "H??tel Drouot, for example, is a place where you see people selling their estate, and when they do, you see really their whole life. It's not just an auction house with glamour sales of famous paintings." Among his other usual haunts: a gardening bookshop, a restaurant for the blind and a very reliable Parisian shirtmaker. Here's a peek inside the little black book of one of fashion's greatest footwear designers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris: Christian Louboutin | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...H??tel Drouot, 9 rue Drouot (33-1-48-00-20-20). This is a true Parisian auction house. It's very moving when you see an entire estate for sale?from paintings to dish towels. Plus, it's really a very wide range of social classes all mixed together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paris: Christian Louboutin | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...Left Bank flagship at 6 Rue de Tournon, which opened last April, says Eric de Montgolfier, a managing partner at Edmond de Rothschild. The store, which Bonpoint executives claim is the largest luxury children's shop in the world, occupies the ground floor of a 17th century h??tel particulier and winds around a large neat garden to a newer wing. Shoppers and their parents wander through parlors with fireplaces, moldings and parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carriage Couture | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

Aiming to squeeze the amount--and cost--of energy used to cool homes and businesses in warm-weather areas, ClimateWell, based in balmy H??gersten, south of Stockholm, is marketing a novel solution: solar-powered air conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooled By Sun And Salt | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...leading universities in the United States last week posed for photographs with a student dressed as a suicide bomber, The Jerusalem Post has learned.” The New York Post put it even more bluntly: “DITZY IVY PREXY’S H??WEEN BALL BOMBS...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ink Spilled Over Penn Chief's Photo Faux Pas | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

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