When shopping in Paris, you could follow tourists on Montaigne Avenue and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where off-the-catwalk designs appear as works of art. Or, you have an adventure and save the euro to chase the “softly used” designer clothes in the city’s dépôt-venes, where the French periods of demanding taste are sent their castoffs.
Unlike the average Thrift store (these are called potatoes), the Dépôt-Denvese, which translates into “deposit and sale” is an upgraded version where high-end clothes sell at a retail fraction.
In recent years, these boutiques have won a new audience: travelers, especially an international Gen Z-ER and Millennials scene in the Prowl for the “pre-loved” Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hermès, Louis Vuitton and lesser known labels. The attraction, of course, lies in the constant charm and high quality of French brands – and deeply reduced prices, especially for Americans from the dollar and the euro is close to the exchange rate. It is also linked to the role of the viability it now plays in the markets of younger people. Used clothes are a green alternative to buying young people, especially with the reputation of fast fashion for Meh quality and poor working conditions. A report published by the ThredUP used online platform this year predicts that the resale market will be worth $ 367 billion by 2029, increasing the percentage of the total global garment market to three times.
“The use market is driven by Gen Z and Millennials weighing the social and environmental cost of a product before buying it,” said Matteo Capellini, a viability expert at Bain & Company.
And the intense interest in the high -ranking way? Thank you, Tiktok. The unjustified campaigns of social media by Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Gucci and YSL (all usually employ famous internet creators) have influenced younger buyers. The Parisian Dépôt-Ventes offer more affordable versions of online labels.
Here is a roadmap for the second -hand luxury scene in Paris.
TROC
In the southern Pigalle, from the busy rue des Martyrs, the Troc En stock is a shelved shelves, shoes and accessories-descended showcases. Owner Sophie Meyer, who has been working for 28 years, sources of goods (generally sticking to clothes no more than four years) mainly from women in the neighborhood, but also by actors and members of the fashion media who are clients.
It favors a mix of medium -level designers (Sandro, Iro, Isabel Marant and Vanessa Bruno, with prices of 36 euros, or about $ 39), luxury (Prada, YSL, Gucci, Balmain, a jacket costs 400 euros) and the least known (American) French brands such as Caris Virot (one bag is about 350 euros) Petite Mendigote.
“Young people have lost their interest in a quick way. High quality second -hand is much more interesting for them,” Ms. Meyer said.
Troc en Stock, 6 Rue Clauzel
Lorette & Jasmin
The elegant women who reject the 16th fuel apartment offers on Lorette & Jasmin, a flash shop and you-hay on a leafy, inhabited street that arrives at the Jardin de la Fondation d’Auteuil. The owner, Laurence Prédo, focuses on “Parisian elegance of the past”, as he wrote in an email, storing Hermès (a scarf costs 130 euros), jackets from the Pues pucy lempicka pieces.
Lorette & Jasmin, 6 Rue François Millet
La boutique de cara
A feature of Les Dépôt-Ventes is their ease of feeling, as opposed to the often snooty vibe of luxury boutiques. This is especially true at Marais at La Boutique de Cara, where the owner, Sarah Pinto, is chairing over the colored clothes shelves, and a table of accessories with Guila Benhamou’s grandmother, who has worked with her from opening the store 12 years ago. Offers have luxurious luxurious with more affordable clothes, believe that YSL Blazers (190 euros), Leonard skirts and HERMès skirts (150 euros), Dior Denim (220 euros), Chloe Silk Tops (140 Euros), items by Marni, Tara Jarmon and Maje (50 euros) and WoWza pieces like a dress from 2018 (1,200 euros) from 2018 (1,200 euros). Beyond the fashion deals, the charm of the store is the tips in intersection style distributed by both women.
La Boutique de cara, 80 rue de turenne
The Parisian vintage
Jules Jensen and Alex Sabatakis They started selling their grandmother’s hidden memories of classic Jean-Louis Scherrer, Louis Féraud, Guy Laroche and Courrèges in pop-ups. In 2021, they opened the Parisian vintage in Marais, inspired by the classic Dépôt-Denvene, but reinforced their appeal to a younger audience with an Au Courant website and ever-updated Instagram and Tiktok accounts. Their vision? Presenting virgin (often vintage), less predictable pieces (lots of leather, suede and blazers) by designers such as Kenzo (a bag from ’90, 300 euros), Celine, Moschino, John Galliano for Dior (Blazer, 650 euros) and YSL (one jacket from 50 euros) Parisian, such as Sylvie, (from 110 euros), Angelo Tarlazzi and Jean Claude Jitrois, many with initial price labels. Recently, the couple added men’s wear and the floor for bags and shoes.
The Parisian vintage, 20 rue saint-claude
Open sauce
Also in Marais is open dress, where, since 2020, the philosophy of owner Alexia Marchand for involvement and decades and style is exposed to shelves of modern designers (Coperni, Khaite and Jacquemus from 300 euros) alongside High-to Source High Fashion 1,200 Euro). Vintage Hermès? The YSL embroidered boolero and smoking jackets from the 1970s and the 80s underwear (Oscar de la Renta and Nina Ricci Dressing, Pajamas and Velvet Quilted Robe from YSL) doubled as ready for corruption (300 to 500 euros). “Why wouldn’t people want to discover a unique piece of a lighter virtual designer?” said Marchand.
Open the outfit, 63 rue de turenne
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