Jacques Marie Mage, the aesthete behind Brad Pitt's glasses, opens his first boutique in France

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Los Angeles' most sought-after French luxury eyewear designer opens his first gallery-boutique in Paris. A veritable cabinet of curiosities and obsessions.
If you are passionate about the Napoleonic period but are discouraged by the queue of tourists at the Louvre at the beginning of summer, then push open the door to 6, rue de la Paix. An oil on canvas of General Lasalle at the Battle of Jena by Alphonse Lalauze (1806) just for your eyes. " Lasalle, a sort of 19th - century Mick Jagger, a bon vivant who wore wide trousers draped in Egyptian fabrics when all his hussars wore Hungarian breeches, a sort of leggings... Lasalle was French panache, Balenciaga before his time! " A curious speech from the guide who welcomes us, a gallery director, in a very well-cut suit and chic glasses " without correction, just for fun ."
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You are here, in the first French boutique of Jacques Marie Mage, the most sought-after eyewear designer in Hollywood and fashion . Although originally from Auvergne, its founder, Jérôme Mage, first set out to conquer the western United States, which fascinated him…
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