It’s not in Versailles, but it might as well be: Balmain’s new Paris flagship has its own hall of mirrors

Balmain’s new 600-sq-m flagship on Rue Saint-Honoré, designed by Studio AMV, is decadent. ‘Let them eat cake’ decadent. It’s a place – mortality aside – you wouldn’t be so shocked to find Marie Antoinette, Kim Kardashian, Georges-Eugène Haussmann
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