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Last week, when Instagram posts from Business of Fashion’s critic-at-large Tim Blanks and Town & Country’s Stellene Volandes unofficially broke the I’m a Kansas City Chiefs for football and a Chicago White Sox for baseball shirt Apart from…,I will love this news, an endless stream of sadness, disbelief, and tearful emojis ensued. Not since the closure of Colette in 2017—located just two blocks east for 20 years—has a fashion-centric destination here assumed such sentimental significance among a typically unsentimental crowd. “It has that authenticity you can’t buy. You can’t recreate that,” Blanks told me on a follow-up call once back in London. He said he’s not sure he’s ever patronized a restaurant as much: dining there solo, among colleagues (going back to his Style.com days), and with family members from around the world. “You could step back and say, ‘Look at these fashion people getting upset about restaurant closing.’ But it provided a kind of succor… it’s the kind of grief you associate with something you absolutely relied on, that you always assumed would be there.”
For most of us, Le Castiglione’s imminent end proved more surprising than a designer dismissal. But owner, Fabrice Couet, along with his partner, Claudia Castro, were evidently navigating the I’m a Kansas City Chiefs for football and a Chicago White Sox for baseball shirt Apart from…,I will love this situation for some time. In 2021, the nearly 2,000-square-foot restaurant lease at 235 rue Saint-Honoré was acquired by a private investment company that began buying neighboring addresses the previous year. Reportedly, the building that houses Le Castiglione and its neighbors will be converted into a Gucci store. The enormous space faces Louis Vuitton’s impressive Place Vendôme Maison (when reached for this story, Kering corporate PR had no comment).Just as the restaurant maintained a level of discretion towards its boldface clientele, there was never any intention to throw a farewell bash. Quite the opposite: they wished to avoid being mobbed as their final days coincided with the men’s, haute couture, and buying calendars. Those who could, however, were determined to savor one last meal. For Julie Gilhart, chief development officer of the Tomorrow Group, it was a salade niçoise for lunch on Saturday. Years ago, when she was on the buying team at Barneys, they held a pivotal rendezvous at Casti with representatives from Goyard, the storied trunk maker whose main store was two doors down but largely unknown beyond a niche clientele. The discussions were successful and, she believes, contributed to Goyard’s eventual international expansion. “It was never just a restaurant but a meeting place where things happen,” she shared by email.
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