Vintage Shops in Paris
{photo by sarai}
Ok. I realized that I never really wrote much about the incredible vintage clothing in Paris waaay back in September.
It was amazing. Now, there are a lot of vintage shopping opportunities in Paris, and they can really range on the price scale, especially since I’m guessing there is more vintage couture / designer clothing here than anywhere else. But what I really noticed is that on the low end, instead of polyester garbage you can actually find lovely, well-made clothing for very reasonable prices! Let’s just say I’m glad I had extra room in my suitcase.
The St. Ouen Flea Market
The photo above is from the St Ouen Flea Market, so I will start there. You’ve probably heard about the famous markets of Paris, and the St Ouen market is the largest of all. In fact, with over 2500 dealers, it’s the largest flea market in the world. I believe that, in the states, it might be more akin to what we think of as an antique mall, as the booths are permanent or semi-permanent structures and are open multiple days per week.
{photo by sarai}
Prices and stock vary widely from seller to seller, but if nothing else, there are beautiful pieces to see throughout the market. I didn’t end up buying anything at all, but it was a lovely day of strolling and window shopping.
Coiffeur Vintage
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One Sunday, we wandered down to the Marais to have falafel at L’As du Fallafel. Many businesses are closed on Sundays in Paris, so people head to the Jewish busniesses in the Marais (who are closed Saturday for Shabbat rather than Sunday). Anyway, the falafel here is probably the best I’ve ever had, and I’ve eaten my share of falafel.
Next door (or perhaps a couple doors down) is the vintage boutique Coiffeur, a small, packed store that enticed me with the purses and boots in the window display. I loved the racks of vintage sweaters. I ended up buying an adorable red silk dress with tiny hearts printed all over it for 15 euro.
Coiffeur Vintage
32, Rue de Rosiers
75004 Paris
Free ‘P’ Star
{photo via free ‘p’ star}
Free ‘P’ Star is pretty amazing. It is wall to wall, crammed with vintage (and at least on the day I was there, vintage shoppers). Of particular note is the wall of boots and purses, and the teeny spiral staircase leading to a basement with the least expensive leather jackets I found in Paris. I bought a couple leather bags from the 70s, one of which I currently use pretty much every day.
Free ‘P’ Star
8 rue Ste-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie
75004 Paris
Fripes Star
{photo by flickr user garzon}
Next up is Fripes Star, the newer sister store to Free P Star. This was actually my favorite vintage store in all of Paris. Still crammed with goodies, but this one is a lot bigger, so there’s some room to move around. And they had racks and racks and racks of dresses. I bought three dresses here for 10-15 euro apiece, all of which I’ve been wearing a lot since.
Fripes Star
1, Rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris
Come On Eileen
{photo by flickr user portmanteaus}
Leaving the 4th arrondissement finally, there is Come On Eileen in the 11th. I was amazed to see vintage Chanel and Lanvin on the racks, mixed in with other high-quality but less impressively labeled clothing. Again, don’t miss the little narrow staircase that leads to a basement much larger than the street level!
Come On Eileen
16 Rue des Taillandiers
75011 Paris
Wochdom
{photo via wochdom}
Last, I will recommend Wochdom, which I wandered into one morning after an unsuccessful trip to Rose’s Bakery. This is a small, dark, pretty little shop with a small selection of lovely things. It was a relief to browse a more curated shop after battling with piles of vintage and frantic shoppers in other vintage shops.
Wochdom
72 Rue Condorcet
75009 Paris
Sigh. I want to go back. I cannot tell you how much I love that city.
Fantastic post! You have me itching for my next Paris trip, I am definitely filing this post away til then. Fripes Star looks awesome.
my friend stephanie at evencleveland.blogspot sent me to this site and i LOVE it, i am leaving for my FIRST ever trip to Paris on Sunday and this is such a helpful resource! Thank you!
So glad it’s useful to you! Have a great time in Paris, Danielle!
Z’OMGoodness – I am so glad to find your blog/post! I’ll be in Paris in April (yeah, lovin’ the whole Sarah Vaughan/Miles Davis of it), and promised myself that I’d buy at least one vintage cocktail dress; but no one I knew who “claimed” to know Paris knew of a good shop. Thanks to your wonderful notes, I’ll find that dress – maybe some excellent buttons, too! :)
Thank you so much for this post! Im going to Paris in about 4 weeks and i’ve been looking for some great vintage shopping! :) Im really excited to go now!!!
oh Fripes Star is so my favorite!
I am spending two weeks in Paris as well this july.. thank you for the tips!! Can you send me a little info on where you went for a beer or something? I want to experience a bit of the parisian night life!!
wow thanks for this post – this is excellent!
Thank you SO much! I am planning to visite Paris in September, so will try to pop in all the stores you mentioned! It’s so nice there are people who share such a tips!
Oh! Thank you very much Sarai! I’ve moved in Paris a year ago… And I love vintage. So it’s a great article. Thanks=)
My friend Trisha and I – both vintage fiends – are visiting Paris in April. Thank you so much for this fabulous guide! I am taking notes :)
Oh my gosh!!!
Thank you so much for this.
I went to Paris nearly 2 years ago for only 4 days and didn’t visit any vintage stores (can you believe it!) due to not knowing where to go.
Wow, you have so many good recs here – thank you!!!
I WILL DEF check a few of these out :)
So helpfull !! im still spendin 1 week in paris of my 3 week trip, and next week i was going to shop vintage !!! Super good tips, thanks :)
I just came across your blog. It’s what I am looking for!
I will be flying from Bangkok and it’d be the first time I visit Paris. I’ve included your guide to my to-do list. Thank you so much :)
I also just came across your blog and found your address selection very interesting for knowing these shops and find it so good too! I just wanted to mention a newn little vintage shop Gyppo & Glitterati in the Batignolles area, 34 rue Nollet 17éme metro: Place de Clichy. She has really nice dresses, shoes, bags, hats… for men and women, original and at very good prices. Hope you’ll like it too!
There are a few of the same addresses on this map, but I imagine some of you will find it useful for vintage shops in Paris.
http://tinyurl.com/yg9qfv9
Thank you so much for these tips. Will print them out for my trip :)
Especially the fallafel place. Gotta love fallafel.!
Bonjouurrr, i actually love this page,going there for a short city break soon,cannot wait. J’adore le paris xx
omg, i m crazy of vintage, but most of them are selling a bit expensive. i really want to sell vintage clothes to my country. but i dont know why i can find…
We’re going to France in June and will be in Paris for four days. We were going to check out the outlet outside of Paris but instead I got the idea to search for vintage in Paris and this is what came up. I don’t know you but I think I love you. What a fabulous guide. I will definitely be using it!
My friend and I are going to Paris in less than 3 weeks. I cannot wait. I googled Vintage shops in Paris and this came up. Thank you so much! Especially for the addresses aswell, made it so easy to locate on google maps! You star!
Bonjour,
Voici MINIBUS un petit bazar vintage pour enfant spécialisé
dans les années 50,60,70 et 80, proposant vêtement, livres, jouets….pleins de trésors de notre enfance.
MINIBUS
8 rue Jean Moinon 75010 paris
métro Colonel Fabien ou Goncourt
Great post:) More shops here – http://vintagefashiondirectory.com/browse/paris
lovely post. very helpful! i’m off to paris in a month and can’t wait to visit these stores. thank you
I’m so glad I found your blog listing. I love love love Free P Star but did not know there was also Fripes Star now! Going to Paris tomorrow, so I’ll definitely check it out. Vintage dresses, here I come! Thanks for the scoop.
Thankyou so much for this blog! I discovered some of these vintage shops last time I was browsing in the Marais but couldn’t remember any addresses. Will definately be returning now!
All a little bit too fabulous – just wondering if you have any tips on where to find vintage evening wear?
Thank you for the great list. I plan to visit Paris in about a month and wanted to know some good pick on the vintage scene and feel that your list will help me have a great shopping experience!
This page is fabulous! I will be leaving for Paris in a few days and I wanted to check out some good vintage stores. Being from NY the selection is endless but the prices are pretty steep. This will be a great oppurtunity to compare costs. Definitely going to pack lighter now so I have more room to bring back awesome buys.
love it! off 2 le gay paris this weekend with my best friend n we have promised ourselves a bit of window shopping but had no idea where 2 go..thank u soo much 4 this! xx
Just wanted to update everyone that the last place on the list, Wochdom has been closed for a while.
And to also remind you that a more comprehensive map is available at:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&source=embed&msa=0&msid=114588086582300400777.00046c2834bb439f0a87a&ll=48.862682,2.361717&spn=0.243251,0.669479&z=12
Hi Sarai, I googled “vintage shopping in Paris” last night as I’m in Paris and wanted to find some great shops. Your blog really helped and I was really excited when I found Fripes Star and Free P Star! I have to say Free P Star was my favourite! I found a coat in there for 10EURO!! Amazing! Thank you so much, a real find! Now my sister (who has lived in Paris for 20 years) wants me to direct her there so she can go. Thank you : ) xxx
Thank you so much for posting this, I’m heading to Paris in a couple of weeks and I haven’t been since I was a child, I can’t wait. I absolutely love anything vintage so this post has really helped me out. I’ve written down the addresses =p xo
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING POST!
thank you so much for this. EXACTLY what i was looking for. going to check these places out tmrw <3
Just found this and I’m so happy I did! I’m leaving for a week in Paris this Saturday. Beautiful post.
thanks so much for this post. I’m leaving for Paris on Saturday and will do my best to find some time for these stores.
Coiffeur is amazing! my favourite and i think the cheapest out of the lot!! i lived in paris for 6 months 2 years ago and me and my friends went to the Marais every week! defintly worht a visit!!! :) will be returning for a 2 days trip in teh summer! very excited! there is also two shops near rue abbesse, i cant remember what they are called but worth looking into ! :) x
This Is my first time in Paris, and today I visited the marais district. I saw this posting and had to visit the Coiffeur Vintage shop. This store was amazing! I found a very cute dress for 10€ a leather bag from Italy for 10€ a leather belt and shirt for 5€. Then I went next door to l’as falafel and had a very tasty falafel. Over all, the marais district has been my favorite shopping place in Paris.
Thanks so much for posting this!! I’ll be studying in Paris for 2 months in the fall and I plan on doing an immense amount of shopping hehe I’m a big vinatge fan so this is a HUGE help :) thanks for passing on this info
Have to visit Gyppo & Glitterati in Batignolles area, fantastic shoes and bags, evening dress, summer dress…..what ever your looking for and what you did not expect, she’ll have it! very soft prices for this place which is becoming one of the ones. Open on sundays too!
34 rue Nollet 75017 Paris
I visited Paris during the two last for vintage shopping. I am a non curable addict of vintage cloting.
I know it is rather pathetic.
I am found a great of which seems to be a quite new address iti is called “chezchiffons”. I was not sure to publish this address to keep it only for me but I play fair. If you like a great selection of vintage, just go there. And do not talk to much about this place. Chez chiffons is 47 rue delancry, 10th arrondissement. Have fun
Looking for great off the beaten path deals in Paris, France–I know it might hard. Any vintage stores?
There is a great store in Saint Germain, it is called Catherine B, and it sells a lot of great vintage Chanel and Hermès bags. This is definitely THE vintage store to go to if one is looking for anything Chanel, Hermès and rare. The selection is great and the merchandise is very well taken care of. They also have a website: http://www.catherine-b.com Best to go to the actual store in perosn
Hi friend ! i know the shop Catherine B …. amaizing shop ! just Chanel and Hermès in perfect shape ! i follow Catherine on twitter @FromCatherineB ! from my last visit i see Ines de la Fressange ! Paris Hilton come also !
brilliant post! going to Paris this October and (since I can’t wait to go already) I thought I’d look for vintage shops online in advance. I was hoping to find good quality at low prices, and you guided me right there! Than you :)
I’m going to parison September and would like to purchase a vintage Louis vuitton, do you know of any shops carrying those?
Thank you so much, I leave for Paris on Friday. Huge fan of vintage clothing. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!! Will report back :-)
thank you for the amazing information, I’m flying to Paris on Sunday and will certainly be making a visit to these shops! :)
thank you so much for this post, I’m going to Paris in 3 weeks and i will definately find all these places!!
very helpful!!!! MERCI!!! I hope I’m as lucky with cool handbags and dresses as you were :)