Chic Shopping Paris was started in 2003 by shopaholic & Francophile Rebecca Magniant.  Living in Paris, she rediscovered her love for shopping & her desire to share her passion & insider tips with friends. This quickly grew into a business idea, and voila!  Chic Shopping Paris was born. Along came David Bizer who shared Rebecca's enthusiasm for French culture (and especially food), & the pair got to swapping addresses and shaping Chic Shopping Paris.

Museums, monuments, & restaurants-- they are all in the guidebooks.  What Chic Shopping Paris offers is secret addresses & shopping tips, bilingual personal guides-- the ins-&-outs that only a good Parisian friend would share with you.

Our expert bilingual guides do not work on commission & can therefore offer you objective, unbiased advice.  Our goal is to help you use your time in Paris wisely, whether it's your first time here or your fifth.  Rather than offer tours on a variety of topics, we organize shopping tours exclusively, focusing all of our attention on discovering new shops & trends for your benefit.  Chic Shopping Paris' private guided tours are devoted to helping you take back "Paris in your bag."

Rebecca Perry Magniant is an American woman passionate about Paris-- the culture, the food, &, of course, the shopping.  Rebecca first visited Paris at the age of 18, and upon returning home, wrote in her journal, "I hope I come back to live here some day."  She continued visiting France every few years, spending a summer learning French in Grenoble , France , & continuing to dream about living in Paris .   She finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri- Columbia , & went  on to receive her master's in art therapy from the George Washington University . 

As luck would have it, she met her future husband while living in Washington , DC   & as we all know, dreams do come true-- hers did when she moved to Paris in 2002 with her Parisian fiancé, now husband. 

While exploring Paris & learning to live "la vie francaise," Rebecca started to find the bonnes addresses in Paris   & voila!  the idea for Chic Shopping Paris was born.

The Chic Shopping Paris team