People were always shocked when I told them I’ve never been to the puces in Paris before.  Part of the reason is that I knew they were expensive and a little farther outside the city.  My friend Eleanor insisted that I finally check them out so we took an Uber to Marche aux Puces de […]

One of the highlights of my recent trip to Paris was stumbling into the brocante de printemps 2013 de la rue de Bretagne in the Marais. It happens the first weekend of June and last weekend of November each year and has over 500 sellers.  Brocantes are best described as movable flea markets while the real flea markets or puces have […]

When it comes to fashion power couples, it doesn’t get more powerful than Ed Filipowski and Mark Lee.  Ed is the co-president of KCD, the special events firm that puts on many of the chicest shows at fashion week like Marc Jacobs, Tory Burch, and Derek Lam.  Mark is the CEO of Barneys, the retail […]