Le Bon Marché

Um, but now people want to get the butter from Le Grand Apestrie de Paris, which is owned by LVMH, Louis Vuitton, Moet, Hennessy.

Um, And it is in Le Bon Marche, which I've actually been to.

I'm pleased to tell you.

And so there's this whole online culture of people asking, like, how do you bring back butter? And buying insulated bags, like a lunchbox.

You know, we have a shop and shop in Liberty.

We are at Le Bon Marché, El Corti and Glass.

And we will, in the not too distant future, really step on the gas in terms of international expansion.

But when you only have 40 stores here in the U.S., it's hard to say, you know, I'm not going to go full force against those 40 stores.

We could feel that there is a real connection with France and Japan that we wanted to, to celebrate Japan in our way

Japan came to Paris this week as Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche opened its doors to more than 100 Japanese brands in what's become hailed as Super Japon.

All that and much, much more over the next hour here on The Curator with me, Chris Chermack.

[jazz music] We begin this week's edition of The Curator with a look back at what we know now that we didn't seven days ago.

Thanks very much to Thomas Lewis for that report.

Still to come here on The Curator, Sir Vince Cable on the changing global economic landscape.

We'll head to Paris as Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche opened its doors to more than 100 Japanese brands.

And in our historical On This Day series, Andrew Mueller recalls when and how Easter Island became Chilean.

London, good news in my local Soho.

If you're in Paris, I keep talking about Le Kiosque de Paris and Le Bon Marché, but I love Smith & Son as well.

That's my latest discovery.

Amazing magazines.

So that, as a whole, if accomplished in the right way, this addition to a lady's wardrobe can hardly be looked upon as an extravagance.

At the same time, ready-made costumes are all reduced in price, and the Petit Saint-Thomas generally exhibits particularly pretty ones, at much less cost than the same at the well-known Bon Marché.

As regards the latter magasin, there is a very mistaken notion of its being cheap, for with the exception of gloves, ornaments, and little articles, everything is notably costlier than at the Louvre, Prentemps, Tapis Rouge, and smaller shops.

The dressmaking department is expensive and not particularly commendable, but being especially patronized by Americans, prices are high accordingly.

Mademoiselle Ferré, 14 Boulevard Saint-Jacques, seamstress only.

Petit Saint-Thomas, Rue de Bac, good for ready-made costumes.

Bon Marché, at the corner of Rue de Bac and Rue de Sèvres.

Tapis Rouge, 67 Rue de Faubourg Saint-Martin.

It was, it was really beautiful.

But they have, their old store is now the menswear brand and the kids' stuff, and then they have this, like, giant store in the old Conran shop across from Le Bon Marché, and that's gonna be there.

And then their offices are nearby.

Anyway, it was really interesting.