It's the end of an era for the cult Parisian boutique

Colette&nbsp;is closing its doors for good.

The beloved Parisian boutique&nbsp;announced that it will&nbsp;officially cease operations at the end of this year.&nbsp;&quot;As all good things must come to an end,&nbsp;after twenty wonderful years, colette should be closing its doors on December 20th of this year.&nbsp;Colette Roussaux has reached the time when she would like to take her time; and colette cannot exist without Colette,&quot; said the store last night&nbsp;in a statement released on its website and social media channels.

Founded in 1997 by Roussaux, the store&nbsp;on Rue Saint-Honor&eacute; has long been regarded as an iconic shopping destination in Paris that pioneered the lifestyle store&nbsp;concept&nbsp;&ndash; virtually unheard of two decades ago.&nbsp;It&#39;s hard&nbsp;to&nbsp;sum up the alchemy of&nbsp;colette&#39;s unerring success; part of it stems from the store&#39;s&nbsp;idiosyncratic range of cutting-edge fashion, household items, toys, magazines, limited edition trinkets, and 73 different types of mineral water stocked&nbsp;across three floors and 8,000 square feet of retail space. Another reason is that colette has always&nbsp;been a vital champion of nascent talent &ndash; stocking collections from designers such as&nbsp;Simone Rocha, Christopher Kane, Rodarte,&nbsp;and Olympia Le Tan&nbsp;when no one else did.&nbsp;

With its&nbsp;final four months drawing near, it remains unclear if colette&nbsp;will maintain its <a href="http://colette.fr/" target="_blank">online presence</a>&nbsp;post-store closure. In the meantime&nbsp;however, it will be business as usual.&nbsp;colette is currently&nbsp;planning&nbsp;its swansong collaborations with Sacai, Chanel, and Saint Laurent. Saint Laurent will reportedly&nbsp;take over the shop&nbsp;space from 2018.

Goodbye, Colette

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