LONDON - Paris' luxury fashion street Avenue Montaigne has a British newcomer. Burberry will now count the likes of Prada, Bottega Veneta and Jil Sander as neighbors on 17-19 Avenue Montaigne.
In 1946, when Christian Dior saw the four-storey hôtel particulier at 30 Avenue Montaigne, built in the 1860s for a son of Napoleon, he knew he had to have it for his new fashion house. It was elegant ...