Colette, Paris

Paris' shoppers' paradise for fashionable luxury goods still manages to retain a certain elegance in spite of its flashy, state of the art decor. The store's aim is to bring together the most beautiful, most unusual and most expensive designer items. So if you're looking for a Gucci watch, a dress by Jeremy Scott (one of fashion's rising stars), or make-up from New York, this place is bound to have it. Worth a look is its kiosk which contains the latest, most incisive fashion and design magazines, while its high-tech cafe downstairs offers over 100 different brands of mineral water.