PARIS

Montaigne Market is all about mixing and matching labels. It offers a stunning array of some sixty international fashion, accessory and jewelry labels. It quickly became the genuine Fashion Check Point for shopping addicts and fashion-tourists, mixing French standards like YSL, Aläia and Givenchy with newcomers like Prabal Gurung, cutting-edge labels like Thomas Wylde from LA who recently presented a “lux punk collection” and ALICE by Temperley, a new label of Temperley, which embodies the British spirit and the rock n’ roll atmosphere of London.

This mega brand shop stocks wearables, sunglasses, shoes, jewelry and bar books (cause who in our generation needs coffee table books) and does so with style. Offering a great mix of women and menswear, Kiliwatch is probably the safest chic couple shopping experience in the city. Also Kiliwatch is maybe the best place in town to find the perfect pair of jeans, as in stock you will find rare designs by Levi’s, Meltinpot, Wrangler and other lesser known, usually Japanese or Dutch denim designers.

Paristay.com is a real estate company that helps English speaking people to find the finest central Paris apartments. On their website you can find a large choice of furnished apartments for vacation, short stay or long term rentals, with full description.

In the centre of the golden triangle, between the Champs Elysees, the Avenue Montaigne and its luxury boutiques, and the Avenue George V, the Pershing Hall Paris, masterpiece of the famous interior designer Andree Putman, is the Mecca of nightlife, business and luxury, and offers a design of exception. You will enjoy the amazing vertical garden in the patio, the quiet ambiance in the lounge, the Talika spa, the gourmet restaurant and all the services that make this unique place a haven of calm and serenity in the centre of Paris.

The Castille is a charming five star hotel at the heart of Paris' fashion district. It’s all about style, as the hotel's elegance and its cuisine are all distinctly Italian. Retreat into a peaceful aesthetic sanctuary, works of art, antiques and contemporary details all perfectly complement the aristocratic XVIII French architecture.

Graffiti artist/nightclub entrepreneur André Emmanuel teamed up with Thierry Costes to open this artistically rendered (yet hardly over-designed) hotel in the fashionable 9th district back in 2006. Amour offers surprisingly affordable, one-of-a-kind accommodation that hook you up for instant landing—if a room’s available, that is. It’s modeled after an old bordello love hotel, and as such, bubbles with personality: different artists—even André himself—gilded each room with their personal touch, from crushed velvet furniture and vintage fixtures.

The Hotel Costes is one of the more fashionable Paris luxury hotels. It’s this strange, really unique place. Try to sit down for an hour and people-watch, you'll always see someone you recognize from television or a magazine or the stage there.

Connecticut-born Hollywood screenwriter Craig Carlson opened this replica of a U.S.-based diner in 2003. Its self-proclaimed mission involves dispensing proper, rib-sticking American breakfasts and diner food to Parisians. The setting replicates a 1950s-era railway car, replete with scarlet-and-black Naugahyde banquettes, faux windows with mirrored insets, and an unabashedly Americanized staff.

La Fidélité is a hipster magnet restaurant and club combo in the up and coming 10th arrondissement, a stone’s throw from the gritty Gare de l’Est. The bright green and pink neon sign in graffiti artist Andre’s signature typeface announces the colour from the get go—this is a place that likes to stand out. The grand restaurant, complete with moulded-ceilings, red leather banquettes and crisp white tablecloths, evokes a turn-of-the-century Paris brasserie air, and indeed that’s what it formerly was.

French actor Brice Fournier's passion for food, specifically Asian, is translated into the Livingstone, a restaurant focusing on Thai and Chinese cuisine. Deeply bolstering the style quotient of the Livingstone is the trendy and upscale décor, a mix of African art seen through the 1930's Cubist vision. The effect is startlingly offbeat and eclectic without losing out on the warm and cozy touches that the seductively low lighting inspires.