blairvanhorn
May 11, 02, 5:45 am
From the NY Times Sophisticated Traveler (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/magazine/magazinespecial/12PARIS.html) magazine, an article by Cathy Horyn:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Rue St.-Honore
... My time in Paris is dictated by covering the seasonal ready-to-wear and couture collections. But for 15 years, I have turned the same two corners: out of my hotel on Rue des Capucines, right into the Place Vendome, then left into Rue St.-Honore and the dim warm lights of the Castiglione. Year after year I have returned to this place, this street. It is my Paris neighborhood.
In the beginning, I suppose I saw St.-Honore, and its elegant continuation, the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honore, like everyone else: as an incredible concentration of chic. Shooting along the Right Bank, a block from the Tuileries and the Louvre, the street offered shopping hounds the constant bone of another boutique. Here is Hermes, here is Saint Laurent. Some toys for the children? Here is Au Nain Bleu! If, on the winding boutique streets of the Left Bank, around St.-Germain-des-Pres, you had the problem of hitting a dry patch or getting lost, here all you had to do was walk in a straight line ...</font>
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Rue St.-Honore
... My time in Paris is dictated by covering the seasonal ready-to-wear and couture collections. But for 15 years, I have turned the same two corners: out of my hotel on Rue des Capucines, right into the Place Vendome, then left into Rue St.-Honore and the dim warm lights of the Castiglione. Year after year I have returned to this place, this street. It is my Paris neighborhood.
In the beginning, I suppose I saw St.-Honore, and its elegant continuation, the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honore, like everyone else: as an incredible concentration of chic. Shooting along the Right Bank, a block from the Tuileries and the Louvre, the street offered shopping hounds the constant bone of another boutique. Here is Hermes, here is Saint Laurent. Some toys for the children? Here is Au Nain Bleu! If, on the winding boutique streets of the Left Bank, around St.-Germain-des-Pres, you had the problem of hitting a dry patch or getting lost, here all you had to do was walk in a straight line ...</font>