There are few status symbols quite like being spotted carrying an enormous, backseat-of-a-cab-colonising shopping bag around a bustling metropolitan centre. It’s the ultimate feeling of accomplishment. Of having been on a secret mission.
And of having perhaps thrown caution to the wind. To tote a branded shopping bag – with the logo visibly positioned on the outside – is to be an It-girl protagonist in or some Real Housewife with a limitless credit card. I imagine that is how might have felt when she was photographed yesterday afternoon in Paris with a massive shopping bag swinging from her arm.
She looked like one of those mean girls in the – dressed in a miniskirt and penny loafers – who, on hearing the paparazzi shutters, decided to stop at some traffic lights and spend a while tucking loose strands of blow-dried hair behind some sunnies. There will be people who are perhaps less satisfied with this image. That is because Depp’s shopping bag revealed the name of one of fashion’s best-kept vintage plugs: .
Located in the Marais, the store not only houses a devastating stock of archival clothes – ranging from to , , and – but some of the best-dressed sales assistants in the business. If you’ve ever wondered who laid the blueprint for Lily-Rose Depp’s style, I’d suggest scrolling through the girls on Nuovo’s grid..