First of all wow! To this curvilinear architecture, designed by Christian de Portzamparc. It harbors many surprises, the first time viewer is immediately attracted by its elegance, shape and feel.In a decoration made of wood, lacquer, leather, amazing fabrics and innovative mixtures that stimulate the senses, Peter Marino chose to greet visitors with a floating sculpture by Korean artist Lee Bul. The staircase is designed as an unfolded ribbon that takes shoppers to collections of women's clothing, leather goods, shoes, jewelry, watches and perfumes, but also to the Dior Homme and an art gallery a private room in which, among other things, photographs by Robert Polidori are exhibited. Pierre Hermรฉ's Cafรฉ Dior is on the top floor. Oyoram's Movie Toile animation is placed around the stairs. Designed as portholes, they show moving fabrics, clocks and...
ย ย ย Read moreWe went there for the cafe upstairs. Itโs a huge clean tusk-like building standing on the street. Everything is fancy there including the price, we paid nearly $50 for a latte and a dessert but YOLO you know. Sure they are delicious and you get the feel the high fashion atmosphere for a while but soon you realized thatโs pretty much how capitalism works so we finished the meal then went down stairs knowing we were not going to buy anything else but still looking around and asking questions and nodding, smiling then walked...
ย ย ย Read moreI can't comment on the Dior products as I only visited the cafe on the top floor. However, the store seems to have a pretty good selection of Dior products, from what I saw on the way up to the cafe.
The main cafe is fairly small. I visited on a very cold day, so nobody was using the outdoor seating.
The cafe has a limited menu, but pretty much everything is made from scratch. I only recall seeing pastries and desserts on the menu which...
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