For the first time, Rachel Kaplan is offering private guided tours to the Louis Vuitton Museum on the Champs-Elysées, as well as to the Goyard Museum. This is a unique opportunity to discover the history and craftsmanship of two of the leading luggage and leather-goods makers in the world—whose success stories began with the Second Empire of Napoleon III and Eugénie, as well as the Universal Expositions. This exclusive tour is also a chance to have a VIP shopping visit at the flagship store of Louis Vuitton on the Champs-Elysées as well as at Goyard. All appointments are pre-booked by French Links Tours. This tour is ideal for select groups.

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Our detailed itinerary outlines with names, addresses and phone numbers the shopping area and stores that will suit both your tastes and budget. We can set up appointments with shops on the day you wish to shop and advise them of your interests. We can be sure to include addresses that offer special benefits including discounts and upgrades. In addition, you will be given a welcome kit at either your hotel or apartment that includes a copy of Best Buys to French Chic, a Fashion Show Invitation, and discounts to major department stores and specialty retailers with a broad selection of goods. We can also set up an appointment with a personal shopper at a department store, who is fluent in English, Spanish or French.

The cost of this personalized shopping service which gives you access to many of our secret addresses, and which allows you to shop at your pace, starts at 350€. (If you want a car and driver to accompany you throughout the day, do call us for a quote).

This exclusive private tour can be with a driver/guide or a guide and chauffeured limousine or minivan, and allows you to shop at leisure and leave your bags in the car! It can adapted to your shopping needs, and is often chosen by flea-market buffs, or as a surprise gift for a long weekend in Paris, mother-daughter program, as well as for birthday, engagement and college graduation celebrations...

Because we prepare these tours in advance, our guests have the pick of the best stores with the clothes in their size range, and with items that truly reflect both their taste and lifestyle. We are known for helping our guests purchase hard-to-source items including Hermès bags, vintage Chanel accessories, as well as elegant clothing for persons with special size needs. We have shopped for both teenagers and for guests that are as old as 103!

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With Rachel Kaplan or one of our expert shopping guides, you will discover the best deals in vintage, "dépot-ventes", and flea market antiques and accessories, including Louis Vuitton and Hermes luggage and trunks, costume jewelry (Coco Chanel, Miriam Haskell, Yves St. Laurent), fine jewelry (Cartier, Chaumet, Boucheron), as well as fine silver, linens, and home accessories and furniture. We have a well-earned reputation for negotiating the best deals for the most unique and exceptional antiques and vintage clothing and accessories, partly because we refuse commissions from local dealers. With French Links Tours you never have to worry about shipping your goods home--we arrange door-to-door shipping anywhere in the world.

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Have you ever wished to know how to achieve that "je ne sais quoi" embodied by the Parisienne? Now you can, thanks to French Links Tours. You will discover the secret addresses of the city's most prominent personalities, including Catherine Deneuve, Inès de la Fressange and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. If you want to use Carla's hair stylist, we can book an appointment. If you want to make your own personalized fragrance, lipstick and foundation, we know the places where you can find all of these and more. Or if you want to know how to put together a wardrobe that includes the best trench coat, the chicest dress suit, the little black dress, the best-fitting jeans, the finest designer bags and shoes, as well as cutting-edge accessories you will find nowhere else, then this tour is for you.

In addition, we can arrange for an appointment for custom-made designer glasses, a personalized skincare program, as well as other spa treatments, pedicures, manicures, and haircuts.

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With one of our expert shopping guides, you will discover the secret addresses for finding elegant shoes, designer clothing, and even accessories at discount prices that are at least 30 to 50 percent less than those in designer boutiques. Among the discounted brands we will introduce you to are: Bonpoint for kids, Lancel, Longchamp, Jimmy Choo, Repetto, Sonia Rykiel, Zadig & Voltaire, Tod's, Prada and Paul & Joe. And that's only a fraction of what we can show you. This tour proves that you don't have to spend a fortune to be chic! Best of all, we offer a special 10% discount on this tour!

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You will discover our secret addresses that make French art de vivre a way of life - whether it's fine bed and table linens, lovely Provençal fabrics, baskets, room fragrances and scented candles, vintage prints and posters, as well as charming hostess gifts. We will take you to neighborhoods and open-air markets where you find a broad array of stock at competitive prices, and assist you in making choices that are both lasting and beautiful. Our aim on this tour is to show you the best that France has to offer. This tour can be arranged in Paris, Provence and the French Riviera.

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Are you seeking some divine inspiration for your next line of jewelry, cosmetics, home furnishings or clothing? Are you planning to open a French restaurant or wine bar in your home town? Are you wondering how to source product or special furnishings? That problem is solved when you book a private professional tour with Rachel Kaplan, who will take you to those places you would never get to see or know, where you will discover the next big thing—be it in product, packaging or both. French Links Tours has both advised and helped supply businesses from Seattle to Melbourne, Australia, from Des Moines, Iowa to Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Lake Tahoe, California.

We are in position to open up the doors of most wholesalers, as well as small and exclusive artisans. And if you need to know the ins and outs of exporting French goods abroad, we are in position to help you do so.

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