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March 11, 2009 2:26 pm
After 20 years on the French fast-fashion track—most recently as a buying and style director at Naf Naf—Eric Denèle decided he wanted to ratchet things up a notch. Inspiration struck at the cinema, or, more specifically, when he was watching the Cannes Film Festival on TV. “There were images of all these hotel suites set up with designer outfits, and actresses would just come in and try on pieces as if they were in their own private dressing room,” he recounted at yesterday’s opening night cocktail party. “I decided that I wanted to create something like that: un dressing, a pretty boutique that women could rely on for designers who are not yet well represented in Paris.” Denèle set up shop on the Left Bank, which is notable for its dearth of high-end multi-brand boutiques (conveniently, he is right up the street from Le Bon Marché). Now, at Suite 114, Denèle’s well-outfitted, oversize dressing room, Parisian fashionistas can get their shot of relative newcomers like 3.1 Phillip Lim, Phi, Giles Deacon, Brian Reyes, and Gareth Pugh, as well as an edited selection of accessories by Jean Grisoni and perfumes by Mona di Orio. In other words, a place to visit for your own red-carpet moment. Suite 114, 114 rue du Bac, Paris.
tags: 3.1 Phillip Lim, Brian Reyes, Eric Denele, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon, Phi, Suite 114
