Paris, the global fashion capital, opens its doors at the end of this month for a series of incredible, theatrical shows and events. If you’re heading to the City of Light this PFW, here is our selection of places to stay, dine and enjoy the city between the shows.
Words by Leigh Maynard
Hotel de Crillon & Teatime by Manolo Blahnik
Hotel de Crillon is an exceptional fit for Paris Fashion Week; if Place de La Concorde and Karl Lagerfeld-designed suites were not enough, the hotel’s exceptional luxury hospitality and serious art credentials make it a must for guests in Paris this season. Considered one of the jewels of the Place de la Concorde, it first served as a grand house before the Count of Crillon became owner in 1788. As it changed hands over time, the hotel became part of history: a place where the League of Nations first laid its foundations and where Allied forces were headquartered. In 1954, the Taittingers, owners of the famous Champagne, acquired the hotel, while Pierre Cardin and Mary Quant showed collections in its salons. In March 2013, a restoration brought in architect and creative director Aline Asmar d’Amman, who introduced key decorative themes that bridge aesthetics from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Karl Lagerfeld himself, with dreams of designing a hotel, worked with Aline to design a series of suites on the 4th floor, bringing his knowledge of quality craftsmanship to hospitality. The result is an ode to the French art of living, with the main areas reflecting the style of Madame de Pompadour and the dining areas playing on contrasting materials. This season, the hotel returns in collaboration with a fashion designer for ‘Teatime by Manolo Blahnik’. This exclusive collaboration celebrates the renowned designer’s creative universe through a refined culinary experience, offering guests a unique blend of fashion, art, and gastronomy, with tastes that reflect 18th-century elegance and flavours beloved by Marie-Antoinette. One star of the teatime is the waffle made from chocolate-laminated brioche, while a Saint Honoré with toasted vanilla pays tribute to French Patisserie classics. A mid-schedule stop or full PFW stay can’t get better than this!
Find this iconic landmark hotel at 10, Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France
For more info, visit the https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/hotel-de-crillon
Le Meurice
Dorchester is one of those hotel groups whose properties are sought after for exceptional service, timeless elegance, and hospitality, with its Paris hotels no exception. Le Meurice and Hôtel Plaza Athénée each have their distinctive personalities. While the former is described as a place for ‘art, creativity and heritage ‘, Plaza Athénée is for those who ‘love Haute Couture, fashion and Avenue Montaigne ‘.
Le Meurice is steeped in creative history. Described as a ‘modern-day Versailles ‘, it overlooks the Tuileries Garden, with the Louvre close by; once a Parisian palace that opened its doors in the early 1800s. Over the years, the hotel served as a backdrop where prominent figures like Picasso and Dali gathered with other great thinkers to share ideas. Today, it remains a place for contemporary tastemakers, where 18th-century elegance fuses with modern design and the Dorchester’s exacting standards are always met with artful precision. It has 160 rooms and suites, including the Belle Étoile Penthouse with panoramic views across the City of Light. The hotel has served afternoon tea to guests for almost 200 years. Today, Cedric Grolet creates his version at Restaurant Le Dalí. Playing an integral role in Le Meurice’s culinary landscape, his latest tea offers traditional finger sandwiches elevated Dorchester-style, with aged ham and fresh truffle slices and a lobster roll-inspired brioche and salmon sandwich with caviar, followed by six sculpted fruits of the season as part of his signature “trompe-l’œil” desserts, as well as warm madeleines, cakes, sugar brioches and the integral freshly baked scones, Champagne, teas and coffee. Whether it’s tea for two or the entire team, a cup of Earl Grey and a petit-four is the perfect mid-afternoon reset in a perfectly central location, a place to sit, savour and ruminate, scone in hand, over this season’s sartorial action.
Find Le Meurice at 228 rue de Rivoli, 75001
Book here: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/paris/le-meurice
Hôtel Plaza Athénée & La Dolce Vita at Terrace Montaigne
On the iconic avenue Montaigne at the epicentre of Parisian Haute Couture sits the Hotel Plaza Athénée. Long associated with Paris’s most social fashion and cultural guests, the hotel offers 208 rooms and suites, many with sweeping views of the city and its iconic tower. Even more befitting for the Paris Fashion Week audience, the hotel has a spa dedicated to one of the city’s most revered designers: the Dior Spa Plaza Athénée. Along with 5 restaurants and bars, the hotel offers a range of dining options. This season, as summer draws to a close, there is still time to taste a touch of la Dolce Vita as its sister hotel, Hotel Eden in Rome, takes up residence on Athénée’s La Terrasse Montaigne until the end of October. Chef Salvatore Bianco is taking over the menu, bringing a taste of Italy to Paris. Amongst the hotel’s signature red awnings, taste dishes like burrata with confit Datterino tomatoes, courgette flowers with ricotta and pecorino, spaghetti “Caramella” al pomodoro, and octopus Luciana, while the Italian favourite Tiramisu is reworked for the sunshine, served with iced mascarpone cream. You may have come to Paris for the fashion, but there is no harm in tasting a little of Rome while you are there.
Find Hôtel Plaza Athénée at 25 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris
Book your stay or your dinner here: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/paris/hotel-plaza-athenee
La Fantaisie
Situated in the 9th arrondissement, welcome to a hotel that describes itself as a ‘maximalist oasis’ and definitely one of our design favourites, with its rooftop bar, buzzy ground floor restaurant with a secret garden, all-day café spilling out onto the street.’ La Fantaisie is a wonderful design-led alternative to the grand palace hotels; its delicate but playful pastel interiors are so perfectly curated they could also serve as an editorial space. With 73 rooms and suites of varying sizes, from cosy to apartment, La Fantaisie’s gorgeous interiors, created by renowned designer Martin Brudnizki with their botanical motifs and careful use of art and pattern, bring joy with their colourful aesthetic, just what the hotel intends. After a day pounding Paris’s streets, what could be more relaxing than a dinner, drink or stay with access to a lush garden in the middle of the city? While the rooftop is the perfect place to meet, drink, and decompress post-shows, the hotel celebrates the rhythm of each season, offering an ever-evolving, energised experience. This season, La Fantaisie has created the Art Suite by Szabolcs Bozó for an immersive stay surrounded by bold colours, playful creativity and contemporary artistic expression. Sitting in the creative, lively Faubourg Montmartre area, close to Pigalle, Montmartre, Opéra and the Grands Magasins, it’s the perfect spot for editors who love to find emerging or independent fashion, restaurants and nightlife that add a different perspective of the city while infusing joy in every perfectly pastel chambre.
Find La Fantaisie at 24 Rue Cadet, 75009
Book yourself in here: https://www.lafantaisie.com
The Peninsula Paris
If you are looking for a spectacular suite, the Peninsula Paris has you covered. Just steps from the Arc de Triomphe in the elegant 16th arrondissement, staying here puts you at the heart of the city, close to the best boutiques, bistros, museums, and the city’s most celebrated monuments. Housed within a meticulously restored 19th-century Haussmannian landmark, the hotel first opened its doors in 1908. With 200 beautifully appointed guestrooms and 86 suites, including three residences, The Peninsula offers an exceptional stay. The Katara Suite, with a rare private garden, evokes Belle Époque grandeur with sumptuous interiors. At the same time, the 318-square-metre Peninsula Suite is a private retreat with a formal dining room, grand piano, crystal chandeliers, and fireplace. While every room exemplifies the Peninsula’s exacting standards, these suites offer views across the locality and central access to shows. There are six distinctive restaurants at the hotel; try The Lobby for Afternoon tea accompanied by live jazz, while LiLi presents an elegant interpretation of Cantonese cuisine, and for evening drinks, Bar Kléber with its oak panelling, gilded mouldings, and soaring ceilings, offers a grand setting for post-PFW drinks. If you need to unwind when it’s all over, The Peninsula Spa, spanning more than 1,800 square metres, offers an extensive menu of Asian, European and Ayurveda-inspired therapies, plus separate saunas and aromatherapy steam rooms. Guests can also retreat to dedicated relaxation lounges or the tranquil atmosphere of the Asian Tea Lounge. For those who value polished service and refined hospitality, this is it.
The Peninsula Paris is located at 19 Avenue Kléber, 75116
Find out more here www.peninsula.com
Brach Paris
Nestled in the understated elegance of the 16th arrondissement in western Paris, Brach Paris offers a distinctive vision of luxury, a contrast to the city’s celebrated heritage hotels. This hotel represents a free-spirited, vibrant and unmistakable contemporary stay. An Evok Collection hotel and the vision of Philippe Starck, it is a destination for discerning international guests. Set across 7,000 square metres, it sits at the intersection of culture, design, and hospitality. Inspired by the avant-garde spirit of the 1930s, the interiors combine rich materials and contemporary forms with an effortless elegance that will draw in those who appreciate understated sophistication. Fine woods, aged leather, marble, and handcrafted glass create a warm, refined atmosphere; the attention is in the details. With 59 rooms and suites, terraces and a rooftop with views of the Eiffel Tower, this is an urban sanctuary for the PFW crowd and anyone who appreciates exceptional, curated stays. The hotel also offers pools, a sports club, a restaurant, and a patisserie for the perfect taste of Paris’s delicacies before a day on schedule. No two rooms or suites are alike; the design has tactility and warmth, with materials drawn from nature, and each room features a concept store instead of a mini bar. If you choose to eat here, expect a journey across the shores of the Mediterranean, with ingredients chosen from exceptional suppliers, stored in the hotel’s fresh vegetable pantry. With DJ sets and Sunday brunches on the weekends. Brach Paris is one for the creative and curious.
Find the hotel at 1-7 Rue Jean Richepin 75116 Paris
More info here: https://www.evokcollection.com/brach-paris/
Bus Palladium
For another hotel in the boutique range, head to the home of a legendary music venue, Bus Palladium. Opened in spring 2026, Studio KO designed this boutique stay in the heart of the Pigalle district, and it has hosted art and music royalty from The Beatles and Mick Jagger to Salvador Dali. For those who enjoy contrasting design elements, Bus Palladium offers a playful aesthetic of glamorous brutalism, featuring raw concrete, exposed cork walls, Hollywood-style mirrors, and powder-pink carpets designed by architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty of Studio KO. Entrepreneur Nicolas Saltiel and his team created a 5-storey, 35-room hotel with mid-century modern accents and a subterranean club that still pulses with a musical spirit. Highlights include the Dalí suite, with its modular leather sofa, and a balcony which runs the length of the suite. Try a Palladium 65 cocktail before dinner in the restaurant’s velvet booths. Meanwhile, chef Valentin Raffali celebrates local produce with dishes such as heirloom tomato with stracciatella and olive oil, or barbecued sea bass with gratin Dauphinois. For fashion teams and music lovers, this place is a great choice if you want to party after dark and not travel too far back to your room!
Find Bus Palladium at 6 Pierre Fontaine Street, Paris 9th
More info here: https://www.buspalladium.com/chambres-suites
Girafe
For a restaurant that offers Eiffel Tower views and a Trocadéro location favoured by fashion and celebrity clientele, head to Girafe. Opened in summer 2018 and quickly becoming a favourite in the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Place du Trocadéro. Working with architect Joseph Dirand and Gilles Malafosse, the restaurant offers dining with some of the most stunning terrace views Paris has to offer. Cité de l’Architecture is a living museum, an example of breathtaking Art Deco, with Dirand celebrating the spirit of the 1930s with cream banquettes and tropical plants, while inside Girafe epitomises the spirit of the grand cafés of the era; sculpted marble and refined deco lighting bring the kind of pared-back elegance of the past that any discerning fashion team would appreciate. Taste seafood from the coast, from oysters to caviar to yellowtail and lobster, accompanied by champagne or a carefully curated cocktail, all consumed as if you almost have a front-row seat to the Eiffel Tower; sip, chat and dine as the sunlight dims and the lanterns light up before the tower itself sparkles on the hour as a celebratory symbol of the city – you cannot get a more refined and truly PFW dining experience than that!
Find Girafe at 1, place du Trocadéro
75016 Paris. Book your table here: https://girafe-restaurant.com
The Griffon
Next, we head to the Marais district, where Griffon sits in the area’s beating heart, the perfect place for a caffeine stop, an alfresco lunch or an evening drink. Griffon is a hybrid, transitioning seamlessly from coffee shop by day to bar when the mood for a drink sets in. Located at 55 bis Rue des Francs-Bourgeois in Paris’s 4th arrondissement, pass through a discreet entrance. You will be upon one of Griffon’s true treasures: a terrace within a cobblestoned courtyard, a place to stop, take stock of the day’s events and relax amongst the eclectic décor, where chandeliers hover above mid-century modern chairs. This is an unpretentious place to stop and enjoy homemade dishes in warm, welcoming surroundings. Try the signature Croque Griffon, and enjoy vegetarian options for those who prefer plant-based dishes. In the evening, the venue comes alive with diners, carefully selected wines, and conversation on one of Le Marais most intimate terraces. Griffon is not just a café/bar; it’s a place for creative connection, with a “La Galerie” space that hosts an arts program, music performances, and talks. In the eclectic Marais, Griffon is a part of Paris’s cultural fabric.
Situated at 55 bis rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75004 Paris
Find out more here: https://griffon.paris
