The front sidewalk of Marc Guyot's Cape Cod Shop in Paris is a pleasant place to spend an hour smoking a cigar in the sun. The scenery is always the same and yet ever different - women in summer clothing and the occasional well dressed male. 
Inside, Goyot's store is beautiful as if by accident. It is a small space that has been crammed with cloth and clothing from top to bottom until there is room for just one customer at a time. To find the neckties, move two boxes of scarves. To reach the socks, push a stack of shoe boxes aside. 
The Cape Cod Shop sells accessories, shoes and made to measure clothing of Guyot's own design. Much of the stock consists of bolt after bolt of shirting, tweed and worsted. 
Waiting for Guyot is worth the time.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Waiting for Guyot
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Thanks for a view of this beautiful little shop. Your title put an instant smile on my face!
Will,
I'm writing from Lisbon, and I really dig your blog.
I believe that Marc Guyot has some handmade shoes from a portuguese shoemaker, Carlos Santos, in a limited edition. I'm sure you would like to know about them. And if you already did, I would appreciate your opinion about.
Thanks
Vic
I saved the shirting fabric to use as a background on my computer. Thank you.
He is, after all, the French Alan Flusser.
Nice pun. I like Guyot's Apparel Arts-influenced designs. His website mentions that he sells bespoke as well as made-to-measure. Does he use a bespoke tailor, since I assume he is a designer.
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