Luisa also lets us in on a little secret - the vintage clothingshop Cavalli e Nastri, which stocks elegant fashions from the the 19th and 20th Centuries.
In 1993 he opened a 7, 000-square-foot wood shopin an old match factory, seeding it with money from the sale of aclothing business that had been in the family since 1907.
Somewhere between jumble sale and vintage boutique, Kilo Shop (with two locations in the 4th and 6th arrondissements) offers a unique concept: recycled clothing and accessories priced according to the items' weight.