France

If the bikini that looked swell in the shop back home suddenly looks tragically frumpy on the beach here, seek help at Kiwi. The Ramatuelle-based bathing suit...more

Armenian-born French shoe designer Karine Arabian has created the perfect pump: round-toed, stable-heeled, but still sexy, and at a price that's north of cheap...more

If you've ever wondered how French women seem to walk an elegant line between casual and formal, chic without being identifiably fashionable, you'll find it may...more

The original Hermès store on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré was one of the first to open on the new 19th-century street and recalls the tradition of...more

Since 1999, English glass artists Annette Meech and Christopher Williams have been working out of a farmstead in Sivignon, an isolated hillside village about...more

Gingerbread (pain d'épice) is a specialty of Dijon, and connoisseurs agree that family-run Mulot & Petitjean, founded in 1796, bakes some of the...more

The bad boy of French fashion, Gaspard Yurkievich has been roughing up pretty girls (and boys) since 1995. In his grittily glamorous boutique, all steel and...more

Art lovers will recognize the name of France's foremost private contemporary art museum, the Fondation Maeght in St. Paul de Vence. Today, this shop and...more

For a country obsessed with nonglobalization—the market street, the local wine—there is one kind of multiple the French love: boutique franchises....more

A grande dame on the French perfumery scene (founded in 1926) and one of the rare operations to remain family-owned, Fragonard has morphed into a modern...more