How can you resist diving foot-first into a shop with shiny yellow shoes prominently displayed in the window?
Answer? You can't. Plus, you should never skip a store with adorable shoes in the window. Never.
Airnoos is a closet-sized boutique tucked at the bottom of le Marais, and it would have been easily missed had the yellow shoes not shone forth like a beckoning ray of sunshine. Once I stepped inside, I found myself in the most hip, decadent, frilly, girly land of contemporary fashion, that I immediately wanted to trade my closet for this one it its entirety. The shop standouts were the shoes (obvs...) but also the array of handmade jewelery, all of which I wanted to put on and look effortlessly cool.
It's one thing when a store carries one item you like, but it's a big problem when everything you see you must have immediately. I managed to escape with most of my credit card limit still intact, but it will only act as a reminder that I must come back with a bucket of euros to drop next time I'm in town. read more