Personal Shopping · Paris

Personal Shopper in Paris


Not a restyling. A day where the boutiques expect you, the car is outside and nothing is queued for.
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The short answer

A personal shopper in Paris, in one paragraph.

A personal shopper in Paris, as we run it, is one person who books the boutiques before you land, stays beside you through every purchase, keeps a car and driver outside all day and handles the tax refund and the shipping afterwards. English and French are standard on every booking; Arabic and Russian are available with advance notice. Each house invoices the goods to you at its own price, and our fee is a separate line, quoted against the day: how many houses, how many people, the car, the language. We ask for at least seven days’ notice. Send the dates and the brief and you get a reply within 24 hours, faster for members and known clients.

  • Appointments booked in the houses you name, with the pieces confirmed in the building before you travel
  • One shopper beside you all day, speaking to the staff in French
  • A car and driver held for the day, so the bags go to the boot after each stop
  • Détaxe paperwork done at the till, not discovered at the airport
  • Hotel delivery, alterations and shipping home handled in one file
  • A CNAPS-licensed protection officer when the purchases or the profile justify one
Direct answers

A personal shopper in Paris: the first questions.

Service

What it actually is

Appointments made in advance, someone with you through the purchase, a car for the day and a schedule that holds. Styling advice only if you ask for it.

Languages

Who you will be with

English and French as standard. Arabic and Russian available when the booking is made with enough notice, because those shoppers are booked ahead.

Cost

What it costs

Quoted against the day: how many houses, how many people, whether a car and driver are included. Client Access, free on application, for clients who come back.

Model

How the bill works

Goods are invoiced to you by the boutique, never resold by us at a margin. Our fee is a separate line, so you always see what the piece actually cost.

Speed

How much notice we need

At least seven days for a normal shopping day; shorter notice is looked at case by case. Fashion Week, the January and June sales and December need more, and so does an Arabic or Russian speaker. Under 48 hours is an urgency case, with additional fees and no guarantee.

Limits

What nobody can do

No one gets you a Birkin on demand, and no one skips a waiting list. Any provider promising it is selling you the resale market without saying so.

What clients actually want

Most people searching for this do not want a stylist.

Search for a personal shopper in Paris and almost everything you find is image consulting: a wardrobe audit, colour analysis, a day learning to dress like a Parisian. That is a real service and some people want exactly it. It is not what most of our clients are asking for.

What they are asking for is the other thing hiding under the same phrase: somebody who has called the boutiques before you land, knows which pieces are physically in the building, has appointments booked so you are expected rather than queuing, sits with you through the purchase, keeps a car outside, and holds the day together so five houses fit into one afternoon instead of two exhausting days. Send the dates and what you are looking for.

What the day covers

What a Paris shopping day covers, and what sits on top.

You get one figure for our part before anything is booked. These are the lines inside it, and the lines added to it or passed through at cost.

Covered

The work before you land

The brief taken properly: sizes, houses, pieces, and a budget if you want to give one. Then the calls in French to each boutique, the stock confirmed, the appointments booked and the pieces held where the house allows it.

Covered

The shopper, all day

One person beside you from the first appointment to the last, in English and French, who asks for the other size in the back, books the alteration slot and keeps the day moving when one house overruns.

Covered

The paperwork afterwards

Détaxe slips checked at the till, receipts grouped by house, purchases sent to the hotel rather than carried, and a written list of what was bought where, for customs at home and for your own records.

On top

The car and driver

A car and driver held for the whole day, quoted as its own line. It is the line we recommend most often, because the houses on a typical list sit in four different arrondissements.

On top

Protection

A CNAPS-licensed protection officer, supplied through our official partner in France, from EUR 950 per officer per standard 12-hour day. The driver and vehicle are quoted separately.

Separate lines

The goods, the shipping, the table

Each house invoices its pieces to you at its own price. Lunch is passed through at cost; shipping and insurance are quoted as separate lines. An Arabic or Russian speaker changes the quote and is confirmed together with the dates.

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What the day looks like, hour by hour

The work is done before you arrive. We ask what you are looking for, what sizes, and whether this is one specific piece or an open day. Then the calls go out: which houses have it, what has just landed, which store has the size, and can it be held. Paris boutiques will hold pieces for an appointment and will very rarely hold them for a stranger who walks in.

On the day itself the shape is simple and it is the whole point. A car and driver stay with you rather than being ordered between stops, so bags go straight to the boot and nobody carries anything. Appointments are spaced with real travel time between the 8th, the 1st, the 9th and the 7th, not optimistic ones. Someone is with you inside the store, which matters more than people expect: it is who asks whether another size exists in the back, who handles the alteration slot, and who says no on your behalf without it becoming a scene.

A typical shape, for illustration: the car at the hotel at 10h00; the appointment that matters most first, while attention is fresh; lunch held for 13h30 somewhere that will seat you; two more houses in the afternoon with forty minutes between them rather than fifteen; the hotel by 18h30, with the purchases already in the room and the détaxe slips in one envelope. The times move with the houses. The shape does not.

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Galeries Lafayette, Printemps and Le Bon Marché

The department stores solve a specific problem: breadth in one building. Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, about 70,000 square metres by the Paris Region tourist board’s count, under a glass dome completed in 1912, and Printemps next door at 64 boulevard Haussmann, trading there since 1865, put most of the major houses within a few floors of each other, which is the fastest way to cover a lot of ground when the brief is open rather than specific. Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche at 24 rue de Sèvres, on the Left Bank, is calmer, better edited and the one Parisians actually use. La Samaritaine by the Pont-Neuf, reopened in June 2021 after sixteen years closed and run by DFS, the LVMH group’s travel retail arm, according to reports at the reopening, completes the set.

They are also where a personal shopper earns the fee most visibly, because unaccompanied these stores are exhausting. In season the ground floor of Haussmann is genuinely crowded, the queues at the tax-refund desk are long, and the good pieces are not always on the floor. With appointments the same visit happens in a private salon upstairs, the refund paperwork is done in one place rather than store by store, and the purchases are sent to the hotel instead of following you around for the rest of the day.

The store option, compared

The department stores’ own personal shoppers: what they do well, and where they stop.

Before you book anyone, know that the big stores run their own services, and some cost nothing beyond the purchases. Galeries Lafayette Haussmann publishes its terms: one-to-one fashion advice in its private salon is available for purchases of EUR 1,500 or more and costs EUR 150 below that; full in-store shopping assistance is available for purchases of EUR 3,000 or more and costs EUR 250 below that. The salon covers fitting, payment, alterations, the tax refund and delivery home. The conditions are on the Galeries Lafayette Haussmann personal shopping page, and they change, so read them before you go.

Printemps Haussmann is described on the Paris tourist office’s luxury listing as offering multilingual personal shoppers, private lounges and a bespoke shopping programme for international clients, and the Paris Region tourist board’s page lists delivery to the hotel or home; neither page publishes its conditions, so ask the store. Le Bon Marché runs its personal shopping from a private apartment with a team of six, and its head of personal shopping told FashionUnited in December 2025 that the service is open to every client, at whatever budget they choose. 24S, the LVMH group’s online store, describes its personal shopper as complimentary, with no obligation to buy and no minimum purchase, working remotely or, in Paris only, in person.

If the whole brief sits inside one of those buildings, use them, and we will tell you so. They are good at what they do. The question is what happens when the day does not fit inside one store.

Side by side

A store’s personal shopper, or a day across the city.

They do well

Breadth under one roof

Most of the major houses within a few floors, a private salon upstairs, the fitting room, the payment and the alteration slot in one place. For an open brief, nothing covers more ground in less time.

They do well

One refund counter

One desk for every purchase in the building. At Galeries Lafayette Haussmann the Tax Refund Area is on the first floor of the Coupole building, open 10h00 to 20h15, and refunds 12 percent in store, excluding bank fees, on purchases over EUR 100.01.

They do well

Cost, above the threshold

Below the Galeries Lafayette thresholds the salon costs EUR 150 or EUR 250; above them the store publishes no fee, and 24S calls its service complimentary. That is a real advantage, and we do not pretend otherwise.

They cannot

Several houses in one day

A store’s shopper works for the store and inside it. Booking Dior on Avenue Montaigne, a viewing on Place Vendôme and Hermès on the Faubourg for the same afternoon is not their job. That cross-house day is the core of ours.

They cannot

The car and the protection

The store’s service ends at its doors. The car held at the kerb, the driver who knows where he may wait, and a CNAPS-licensed officer between a jewellery purchase and the hotel sit outside its remit.

They cannot

One shipment from five houses

Each store delivers its own purchases. Gathering pieces from five houses, checking them, insuring them and sending them home as one shipment, with one list for customs, is a different job.

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Avenue Montaigne and Rue Saint-Honoré

Avenue Montaigne is the couture address: Dior at number 30, Chanel, Saint Laurent, Valentino, Givenchy, Celine, Louis Vuitton and Fendi in a few hundred metres, with the Plaza Athénée in the middle of it. It is short, quiet and entirely appointment-driven at the top end, which is exactly why turning up unannounced is the wrong way to use it. Dior’s flagship at 30 Montaigne reopened in March 2022 after about two years of renovation led by the architect Peter Marino, as reported at the reopening, and now holds the boutiques, the haute couture salons, the Galerie Dior museum and a restaurant. For some clients it is half a day on its own.

Rue Saint-Honoré and the Faubourg Saint-Honoré run differently: longer, busier, more mixed, with Hermès at 24 Faubourg, its address since the 1880s, Goyard, Chanel at 31 Rue Cambon just off it, and the concept stores that make the street interesting rather than only expensive. The Élysée Palace stands at number 55 on the same street, so expect a visible police presence and, at times, traffic restrictions at that end; we route around it rather than through it. For a client who wants one afternoon that covers couture properly, these two streets plus a car between them is the answer, and it is a very different day from the department stores.

The rents tell you how concentrated this is. Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 Main Streets Across the World report places Avenue Montaigne, Rue Saint-Honoré, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and Place Vendôme with Rue de la Paix among the ten most expensive retail streets in Europe. Counting the Champs-Élysées, five of Europe’s ten most expensive retail streets sit within one car ride of each other, which is why a held car does more for a Paris day than any amount of walking.

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Place Vendôme: jewellery, watches and viewings

Place Vendôme and Rue de la Paix hold the jewellery houses in one square: Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Boucheron, Chaumet, Bulgari, Chanel Joaillerie, Dior Joaillerie, Repossi and the watch salons around them. Nothing here works on a walk-in basis at any serious level, and the difference between the ground floor and the salon upstairs is the difference between a display case and what is actually available.

The square became the jewellers’ address in a particular order. Boucheron was the first of the great contemporary jewellers to open here, in 1893 at number 26, chosen, the house says, for its exceptional sunlight. Van Cleef & Arpels followed at number 22 in 1906, according to the house’s own history. The others came after, and the result is a single square where three or four houses can be seen in one morning if the appointments are made in the right order.

For a viewing we agree in advance what you want to see, so the pieces are out of the safe and on the table when you arrive rather than being fetched while you wait. Where a piece needs sizing, the workshop slot is booked at the same time rather than discovered afterwards. Where the value justifies it, the car and a discreet officer handle the movement between the square and the hotel, which is the part of a jewellery purchase most people never think about until they are standing on the pavement holding it.

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The Champs-Élysées and the flagships

The Champs-Élysées is not where Parisians shop and we will say so, but it is where several houses put their largest flagships, and a flagship holds stock and exclusives that smaller boutiques do not. If a specific piece exists anywhere in the city, it is often here. Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 report ranks the avenue the fifth most expensive retail street in the world, at EUR 12,519 per square metre per year, which is the rent a house pays to be seen on it.

Two addresses show how it works. The Louis Vuitton Maison at 101 avenue des Champs-Élysées publishes hours of 10h00 to 20h00 Monday to Saturday and 11h00 to 20h00 on Sunday, and its client advisors receive by appointment as well as during opening hours, which makes it the right answer for a client who lands on a Sunday. Guerlain has been at number 68 since 1914, in the townhouse the family built, according to the house.

What the avenue costs you is crowds. The pavements are heavy from midday, the flagship queues in season are real, and the difference between an appointment and no appointment is measured in hours rather than minutes. This is the single street in Paris where being expected changes the day most, and the one where clients most often assume they can simply walk in.

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Louis Vuitton, Hermès and the honest part

Now the part the rest of the market avoids. Some pieces cannot be bought on request, by anyone, at any price, on any day. A Hermès Birkin or Kelly is not a product you order over the counter; allocation goes through a relationship with a specific store built over time. Some houses, including Louis Vuitton and Chanel, are also widely reported to limit quantities per client per period and to check the passport at the till.

So here is what we actually do and do not do. We get you an appointment where you are expected, and we find out honestly what is in the building before you travel, which saves the wasted afternoon. We do not claim to skip an allocation list, because nobody can, and a provider who promises a Birkin is quietly describing the resale market at a markup while letting you assume it is the boutique. If the resale market is what you want, we will say so plainly, source with authentication, and show you the price difference rather than hide it inside a fee.

Typical briefs

Six Paris briefs, and how each one is run.

Illustrative rather than historical: these are the shapes of day we are asked for most often, not stories about named clients.

Couture

One afternoon, five houses

A visitor with one free afternoon and a list: two houses on Avenue Montaigne, Hermès on the Faubourg, Chanel on Rue Cambon and a concept store to finish. Appointments booked a week ahead, the car held, forty minutes between stops, and the most important house first rather than last.

Jewellery

A viewing on Place Vendôme

A collector who wants to see three pieces from two houses. The pieces are agreed in advance so they are out of the safe on arrival, the sizing slot is booked for the same visit, and a protection officer covers the walk from the salon to the car and from the car into the hotel.

Family

A week of stores and the Left Bank

A family in Paris for a week, with an Arabic speaker booked ahead. Two mornings at the Haussmann stores using their private salons, an afternoon at Le Bon Marché, the purchases delivered to the hotel and the détaxe grouped house by house.

Sales

The winter sales, without the scrum

A client arriving for the opening of the winter sales on 6 January 2027. Not every house discounts, so the plan starts with the ones that do: pieces identified the week before, an early start, and the day built around the crowds rather than inside them.

Arrival

A Sunday landing, a Tuesday flight

A client who lands on a Sunday and flies again on Tuesday. The Champs-Élysées flagship that opens on Sunday covers the first afternoon, the couture streets take Monday, and anything not found is either delivered before the flight or shipped after it.

Remote

Bought in Paris, without the trip

A client at home who wants one specific piece. We confirm it is in the building, buy it through the boutique with the invoice in the client’s name where the house sells on that basis, and ship it insured, with the boutique price and our fee shown apart.

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English, French, Arabic and Russian

English and French are standard, on every booking. Paris boutiques operate in French, the good relationships are held in French, and the difference between a request made in French by someone the store knows and the same request made in English at the counter is not subtle.

Arabic and Russian speakers are available with enough notice, and we are deliberate about that wording. Those shoppers are a small group, they are booked ahead, and promising one at two days’ notice in December would be a promise we could not keep. Tell us the language when you first write and it is almost always arranged; ask on arrival and it sometimes cannot be. Where the language matters more than the timing, we will say which dates work rather than take the booking and hope.

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The car, the schedule and the bags

A shopping day in Paris fails on logistics far more often than on access. The 8th, the 1st, the 9th and the 7th are not walkable in one afternoon with purchases in hand, taxis are unreliable at exactly the hours you need them, and the ride-hailing apps do not wait. A car and driver held for the day removes all of that: purchases go to the boot after each stop, the driver knows where he is legally allowed to wait on Avenue Montaigne, and the schedule survives one appointment overrunning.

The schedule itself is the other half. We build it with genuine travel time, put the appointment that matters most when the client is freshest rather than last, keep lunch somewhere that will actually seat you at short notice, and leave a gap because there is always one more thing. Where the profile calls for it, a discreet officer covers the movements, particularly between a jewellery purchase and the hotel. See protection in Paris and chauffeurs in Paris.

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Protection while shopping, through the CNAPS framework

A shopping day carries one risk most visitors never think about: the few metres between a boutique and the car, with something valuable in a bag or on the wrist. Watch theft in Paris is fast and practised. On 7 October 2019 a visitor had a Richard Mille valued at about EUR 800,000 taken from his wrist on Avenue de Friedland, near the Champs-Élysées, at 21h30, after a man asked him for a cigarette; The Local reported at the time that 71 people had been assaulted for luxury watches in Paris and its suburbs in the first eight months of that year. We have found no official count since, which is a reason for care rather than comfort.

Close protection is a regulated profession in France. The officer must hold a personal CNAPS carte professionnelle under Livre VI of the Code de la sécurité intérieure, and the company that supplies the officer must hold its own CNAPS authorisation for the protection of persons. Algoz plans and coordinates; the officers on the ground are supplied by our official partner in France, 1831 Prétorien, a CNAPS-authorised company, and every officer signs an NDA before your name is shared. A UK, US or Gulf licence authorises nothing on French soil, so a protector who travels with you cannot lawfully work the day here.

On a shopping day the officer is in plain tailoring, a step behind and mostly unnoticed: inside the boutique only where you want it, on the pavement during the handover to the car, and with you on the return to the hotel. Protection starts from EUR 950 per officer per standard 12-hour day, with the driver and vehicle quoted separately, and female officers are available on request. We ask for at least seven days’ notice. Armed protection is a different matter: it needs a minimum of 30 days, may be refused, and is never guaranteed. See close protection in Paris.

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Détaxe: the tax refund, and the rules that decide it

French VAT is 20 percent, and a visitor whose habitual residence is outside the EU can reclaim part of it on goods carried out in personal luggage. The conditions are specific and worth knowing before you shop rather than at the airport. As French customs sets them out on its procedure page and in its June 2024 PABLO leaflet: you must be 16 or over, resident outside the EU, and in France or the EU for less than six months. The purchase total must be strictly above EUR 100 at one retailer or retail group, and that total may be accumulated over a maximum of three days. Residents of EU countries and Monaco are excluded. The retailer is also under no obligation to offer détaxe at all, which surprises people in the smaller boutiques.

The mechanics catch people out too. Against your original passport the store issues an export sales slip, the bordereau de vente à l’exportation, carrying the PABLO barcode; Louis Vuitton, for one, states that it processes the refund only on the original passport or official proof of residence outside the EU. The slip must be validated at a PABLO kiosk or the customs desk before you check in your bags, and no later than the end of the third month after the month of purchase, with the goods available. If you leave the EU from another member state, that state’s customs stamps the slip and it goes back to the French seller. French customs never refunds anything themselves: only the merchant does, usually through a refund operator that takes a commission.

So the real figure is lower than people expect. Twenty percent VAT is about 16.7 percent of a ticket price that already includes it, and the operator’s commission comes off that: Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, for example, quotes 12 percent refunded in store, excluding bank fees. Planned properly this is decided at the till, and grouping purchases at one house across the three-day window is frequently the difference between qualifying and not. Détaxe covers only goods carried out in your own luggage. Pieces you would rather not carry can be shipped abroad by the house itself where it offers that (ask whether it then invoices without French VAT), or shipped home with the rest of your shopping; goods sent that way after the purchase fall outside the détaxe, and duties at home apply either way. The official rules are on the French customs détaxe procedure page.

Paris calendar, 2026 to 2027

The dates that change a Paris shopping day.

Show dates from the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode calendar of coming seasons; sale dates from the French national rule. Around each of them the houses’ appointment books and the cars are in heavier demand, so book well beyond the usual seven days.

6 January to 2 February 2027

Winter sales

Under the national rule the 2027 soldes d’hiver open on Wednesday 6 January at 08h00 and run four weeks, to Tuesday 2 February, as published by CCI Lyon Métropole. Not every house discounts; the plan starts with those that do.

19 to 24 January 2027

Menswear, Fall/Winter 2027/2028

Six days of men’s shows. Appointments on Avenue Montaigne and the Faubourg are the ones to book first.

25 to 28 January 2027

Haute Couture, Spring/Summer 2027

Couture week follows straight on from the men’s shows, so late January is one long busy stretch. If you hold a couture appointment, we build the rest of the stay around it.

1 to 9 March 2027

Womenswear, Fall/Winter 2027/2028

Nine days of women’s shows on the federation’s calendar; some event listings give other dates, so trust the federation’s. Reserve the car and the key appointments early.

22 to 27 June 2027

Menswear, Spring/Summer 2028

The men’s shows at the start of summer. Treat the week as a show week, not a quiet one, and give us the dates early.

5 to 8 July 2027

Haute Couture, Fall/Winter 2027/2028

Four days of couture in early July. If a viewing on Place Vendôme is part of the same trip, tell us early so the appointments are made in the right order.

27 September to 5 October 2027

Womenswear, Spring/Summer 2028

The autumn women’s shows, nine days again. Give us the dates as soon as you have them, and the key appointments are made first.

December

The weeks before Christmas

No federation date, but December needs more notice than an ordinary month: gifts, the Christmas windows and full appointment books. Treat it like a show week.

Who books it

Who books a personal shopper in Paris.

Visitors

Two or three days

Clients with one short window who need five houses to fit into one afternoon.

Gulf families

Seasonal visits

Families in Paris for weeks, where an Arabic speaker and a car matter more than styling.

Collectors

Jewellery and watches

Clients booking viewings on Place Vendôme, where the salon upstairs is the whole point.

Executives

A half day between meetings

Clients with one free afternoon, where the schedule is the service.

Public figures

Private appointments

Clients who need the store closed, early, or the pieces brought to the suite.

Remote buyers

Not travelling at all

Clients who want something found, bought properly and shipped, without flying.

The service you actually need

Personal shopper, stylist or fashion concierge?

A stylist works on you: wardrobe, silhouette, colour, what suits you and what does not. That is a genuine profession and Paris has excellent ones. If what you want is to be dressed better, hire one, and we will happily say so rather than take the booking.

A personal shopper in the sense most of our clients mean works on the day: access, appointments, what is physically in stock, assistance through the purchase, transport, timing and the paperwork afterwards. A fashion concierge is the same function extended beyond the trip, sourcing while you are at home and shipping to you.

A store personal shopper is a fourth thing again: the department store’s own team, working for that store and inside it. Excellent for breadth under one roof, with the salon, the alterations and the refund desk in one place, and not designed to take you anywhere else. A simple test decides it: if the answer to “what should I wear” is the problem, book a stylist; if the brief fits inside one store, use the store; if it crosses houses, streets and days, that is our work.

We do the second and the third, and we will bring in a stylist when a client actually wants one. Where the trip is larger than the shopping, it runs inside the same file rather than as a separate booking. See concierge in Paris and membership tiers.

How booking works

From the first message to the last parcel.

Step 1

Send the dates and the brief

Dates, hotel, who is shopping, the houses or pieces you have in mind, the language, and anything time-critical. A reply within 24 hours, faster for members and known clients, confidential from the first message.

Step 2

The calls go out

We call the houses in French, confirm what is physically in stock and in your size, and come back with what exists, what does not and what can be held for an appointment.

Step 3

One plan, one figure

A written schedule with the appointments, the car, lunch and, where needed, the officer, and one figure for our part that does not move afterwards.

Step 4

The day

The shopper meets you at the hotel, the car stays with you, and the plan bends when a house overruns instead of breaking.

Step 5

Afterwards

Alterations collected, détaxe slips checked, purchases delivered or shipped, and a list of what was bought where, ready for customs at home.

Next time

The next visit starts ahead

With your agreement, sizes, preferences and the houses that know you stay on file, so the next Paris visit begins where this one ended.

Excellence, Discreetly Delivered

“The difference between a good shopping day in Paris and a wasted one is decided a week earlier, on the telephone, in French.”

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Indicative cost

What a personal shopper in Paris costs.

A shopping day is quoted against the day itself rather than from a menu, because the variables are real: how many houses, how many people are being dressed, whether a car and driver are held for the day, whether an Arabic or Russian speaker is required, and whether the day ends in a jewellery purchase that needs covering to the hotel. You get one figure before anything is booked, and it does not move afterwards.

The one published figure on the security side is protection: from EUR 950 per officer per standard 12-hour day in France, through our CNAPS-authorised partner, with the driver and vehicle quoted separately. Everything else on the shopping side is quoted against the brief.

For clients who come to Paris more than once a year, membership is usually the better route: Client Access is free on application and annual tiers run from Guild at EUR 6,000 per year, which puts the relationship in place before you need it. In every case the goods themselves are invoiced to you by the boutique at their own price, our fee is a separate line, restaurants are passed through at cost, and the car, the driver and any shipping are quoted as separate lines. See what a luxury concierge costs.

Important Legal Notice — Personal Shopping & Concierge

Algoz FZ-LLC (Trade License 5033995 | TRN 105119056700001) is licensed by RAKEZ for business-person services and lifestyle development consultancy. Personal shopping, concierge, itinerary and destination management are delivered directly. We are not an authorised dealer, agent or representative of any fashion, watch or jewellery house, we hold no allocation with any brand, and we never represent ourselves as acting on a brand’s behalf. Boutiques, department stores, hotels and restaurants are third-party services passed through at cost with our fee shown separately; the car and driver are quoted as a separate line; goods are invoiced to you by the seller, never resold by us at a margin. Where a programme includes protection, all operational execution is carried out exclusively by licensed third-party partners holding the required French authorisations. Third-party terms, prices, hours and event dates quoted on this page are as published by those parties when the page was written and may change. Clients are responsible for customs declarations and any duties owed on import into their own country. All activity complies with UAE law and RAKEZ regulations.

Good to Know

Personal Shopper in Paris: Frequently Asked Questions

What does a personal shopper in Paris actually do?

Appointments made before you arrive so the boutiques expect you, honest information on what is physically in stock, someone with you through the purchase, a car and driver held for the day so nobody carries bags, a schedule with real travel time in it, and the tax refund paperwork handled correctly. Styling advice is included only if you ask for it.

Is this a stylist or a shopping service?

A shopping service. A stylist works on you: wardrobe, silhouette and colour. We work on the day: access, appointments, stock, assistance, transport and timing. Paris has excellent stylists and if being dressed better is what you want, we will say so rather than take the booking.

What does a personal shopper in Paris cost?

It is quoted against the day rather than from a menu, because the variables are real: how many houses, how many people, whether a car is held for the day, and which language is needed. You get one figure before anything is booked. For repeat visitors, membership is usually the better route: Client Access is free on application and annual tiers run from Guild at EUR 6,000 per year.

Is the Galeries Lafayette personal shopper free?

Not unconditionally. At Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, the private salon’s one-to-one fashion advice costs EUR 150 when purchases stay below EUR 1,500, and full in-store shopping assistance costs EUR 250 when they stay below EUR 3,000. The store publishes no fee above those thresholds. Travel articles calling it free with no minimum are out of date, and the store changes its terms, so read its own page before you go.

Should I use a department store personal shopper or an independent one?

If the whole brief fits inside one store, use the store’s own service: it covers the salon, alterations, the tax refund and delivery for that store. An independent day makes sense when the brief crosses several houses, needs a car held at the kerb, a protection officer or one consolidated shipment, because a store’s personal shopper works for the store and stops at its doors.

Do you speak English?

Yes. English and French are standard on every booking. French matters more than clients expect, because the boutiques operate in it and the relationships are held in it, and a request made in French by someone the store knows lands differently from the same request in English at the counter.

Do you have an Arabic-speaking personal shopper in Paris?

Yes, with enough notice. Arabic speakers are a small group and are booked ahead, so we ask for the language when you first write rather than on arrival. Given notice it is almost always arranged. At two days’ notice in December it may not be, and we will tell you which dates work instead of taking the booking and hoping.

Do you have a Russian-speaking personal shopper in Paris?

Yes, on the same basis as Arabic: available when the booking is made with enough notice. Tell us the language in your first message and we will confirm it with the dates rather than leave it open.

Can you get me a Hermès Birkin or Kelly?

No, and nobody honest can. Hermès does not sell those bags on request; it allocates them through a client’s relationship with one store, built over years. A promise of one on demand usually means a resale purchase at a premium, presented as if it came from the boutique. If resale is what you want, tell us: we source with authentication and show you the gap between the boutique price and the resale price.

Can you book appointments at Chanel, Dior or Louis Vuitton?

Yes, appointments where you are expected, and honest information on what is in the building before you travel. Note that some houses are reported to limit quantities per client per period and to check it against your passport, so a plan built around buying several pieces from one house on one day may not work as expected.

Where should I shop in Paris?

It depends on the brief. Avenue Montaigne and Rue Saint-Honoré for couture, appointment-driven and quiet. Place Vendôme for jewellery and watches, where the salon upstairs is the point. Galeries Lafayette, Printemps and Le Bon Marché for breadth in one building. The Champs-Élysées for the big flagships, which hold stock the smaller boutiques do not, at the cost of crowds.

Do you provide a car and driver for the day?

Yes, and it is usually the difference between a good day and a bad one. A couture list spans four arrondissements, taxis are scarce at the hours a shopping day needs them and ride-hailing cars do not wait. With a car held, the purchases leave your hands at every stop, and one house running late does not cost you the next appointment.

Can you arrange a protection officer for the shopping day?

Yes. Close protection in France runs through the CNAPS framework: the officer holds a personal CNAPS professional card and the supplying company holds its own CNAPS authorisation. Our officers in France come through our official partner, a CNAPS-authorised company. Protection starts from EUR 950 per officer per standard 12-hour day, with the driver and vehicle quoted separately. Allow at least seven days. Armed protection needs a minimum of 30 days, may be refused and is never guaranteed.

Is it safe to wear an expensive watch while shopping in Paris?

Usually, with care. Watch theft in Paris is fast and practised: in October 2019 a visitor had a watch valued at about EUR 800,000 taken from his wrist on Avenue de Friedland after being asked for a cigarette, and The Local reported that 71 people had been assaulted for luxury watches in Paris and its suburbs in the first eight months of that year. We have found no recent official count. The practical answer is to wear less on the street, keep the car close and, for purchases of real value, have an officer cover the movements.

How does the French tax refund work?

You must be 16 or over, habitually resident outside the EU, and in France or the EU for less than six months. The purchase total must be strictly above EUR 100 at one retailer or retail group, and it can be accumulated over a maximum of three days. Against your original passport the store issues a slip with a PABLO barcode, which you validate at a PABLO kiosk or the customs desk before checking in your bags, and no later than the end of the third month after the month of purchase.

How much of the VAT do I get back?

Less than people expect. VAT at 20 percent is about 16.7 percent of a price that already includes it, and the refund operator’s commission comes off that: Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, for example, quotes 12 percent refunded in store, excluding bank fees. French customs never refunds anything themselves; only the merchant does. A retailer is also under no obligation to offer détaxe at all, which surprises people in smaller boutiques.

When are the Paris winter sales in 2027?

Under the national rule, the 2027 winter sales open on Wednesday 6 January 2027 at 08h00 and run four weeks, to Tuesday 2 February 2027; CCI Lyon Métropole publishes those dates and the government page confirms the four-week rule. Not every luxury house discounts, so the plan starts with the houses that do.

When is Paris Fashion Week in 2027?

On the federation’s calendar: menswear Fall/Winter 19 to 24 January 2027, Haute Couture Spring/Summer 25 to 28 January 2027, womenswear Fall/Winter 1 to 9 March 2027, menswear Spring/Summer 22 to 27 June 2027, Haute Couture Fall/Winter 5 to 8 July 2027, and womenswear Spring/Summer 27 September to 5 October 2027. Book well beyond seven days for any of them.

How far ahead should I book?

At least seven days for an ordinary day, more around Fashion Week, the January and June sales and December, or for an Arabic or Russian speaker. Shorter notice is looked at case by case; under 48 hours is an urgency case with additional fees and no guarantee.

Can you take me to La Vallée Village?

Yes. La Vallée Village in Serris is about 40 minutes from Paris by car, according to the operator, and can also be reached by RER A to Val d’Europe or by a shuttle from central Paris. It opens 10h00 to 20h00 and lists tax-free shopping and valet parking among its services. With a car held for the day it fits into a morning or an afternoon, and the purchases go straight to the boot.

Can you deliver purchases to the hotel or ship them home?

Yes. Where a house delivers to the hotel we arrange it, and where it does not the car carries the bags. For pieces from several houses we gather, check and ship them home insured as one shipment, quoted as a separate line, with a list for customs. The détaxe covers goods carried out in your personal luggage, so decide which pieces travel with you before the till. Duties at home are the client’s responsibility.

Can you shop for me if I am not in Paris?

Yes. We find the piece, confirm it is genuinely in the building, buy it properly through the boutique with the invoice in your name where the house sells on that basis, and ship it. You see the boutique price and our fee separately, so nothing is marked up quietly in between.

Do you take a margin on the goods?

No. Each house invoices you directly at its own price, and our fee is a separate line, so you always see what the piece cost. Restaurants are passed through at cost; the car, the driver and shipping are quoted as separate lines.

Is everything confidential?

Yes, under NDA from the first message, including the existence of the visit. Boutiques, drivers and hotel staff receive only what they need for their part. For a recognisable client, a private appointment before opening or after closing is usually the right answer and is arranged in advance rather than requested at the door.

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Assistants, chiefs of staff and family offices arranging a principal’s stay work with one team that handles access, reservations, transport and security together - not a switchboard of separate vendors. Brief us once; we anticipate the rest.

Access is real and discretion is absolute: NDA-backed, OPSEC-aware planning, low-profile delivery, multilingual operatives, and protection that integrates so naturally it is never intrusive. It is why UHNWI and HNWI clients, royal households and the advisors who serve them treat Algoz as a trustworthy single point of contact in Paris.