Paris in Three Hours — Saint-Honoré to Palais-Royal
The classic Right Bank luxury spine, walked east: from the Faubourg’s grand maisons past place Vendôme into the arcades of the Palais-Royal — about 2.5 km of the most argued-over shop windows on earth.
- 0:00 — Hermès — open store recordMap 24 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Begin at the mothership — the 1880 flagship; even the window dressing is an institution. - 0:30 — Goyard — open store recordMap 233 rue Saint-Honoré
Five minutes east: the trunk-maker’s hand-painted chevron canvas, quieter than its neighbors and prouder. - 0:50 — Charvet — open store recordMap 28 place Vendôme
Turn into the octagon: seven floors of shirting under the column — the world’s first shirt shop, 1838. - 1:15 — Chanel — open store recordMap 31 rue Cambon
Two streets west: the original house, mirrored staircase and all. Look up — Mademoiselle’s apartment. - 1:45 — Astier de Villatte — open store recordMap 173 rue Saint-Honoré
Back east on Saint-Honoré: milky terres blanches ceramics in a creaking 18th-century shop. - 2:10 — Serge Lutens — open store recordMap Jardins du Palais-Royal, 142 galerie de Valois
Enter the Palais-Royal gardens: the purple fragrance theater — bell-jar exclusives sold nowhere else. - 2:30 — Maison Fabre — open store recordMap 128–129 galerie de Valois
A few arches along: Millau glove-makers since 1924, colors like a paintbox. - 2:50 — Maison Kitsuné — open store recordMap 51 galerie de Montpensier
Cross the garden for the finale — Café Kitsuné espresso under the arcades, watching the boules players.
End on a green bench among Buren’s columns. If legs remain: rue de Richelieu north to Galignani’s successor bookshops, or the passage Vivienne for Jean-Paul Gaultier ghosts.