Follow the Paris Film Trails and explore famous or little-known parts of the city that have featured in classic and recent movies. Over 650 film shoots take place in Paris each year, and some 4,000 different outside locations have been used. The Film Trails are pocket guides for lovers of Paris and the cinema.

In the exclusive world of fashion, Miranda
Priestly is unquestionably the reigning queen. In New York, her Runway magazine makes and breaks trends with each of its unchallengeable opinions. Tyrannical, ultra-glamorous, fascinating, Miranda strikes fear and trembling into all around her. Andy Sachs is a bright young college graduate who has no great fashion sense and certainly doesn’t seem cut out for work in this tightly closed environment. And yet she lands the job that thousands of girls in New York would die for, ecoming Miranda’s assistant. Andy sees her new job as a stepping stone to an illustrious career in journalism. She thought the world of fashion would be all lightness and charm, but soon discovers that hell is perhaps right here on earth. Priestly is unquestionably the reigning queen. In New York, her trends with each of its unchallengeable opinions. Tyrannical, ultra-glamorous, fascinating, Miranda strikes fear and trembling into all around her. to an illustrious career in journalism.

1. Medieval Paris

2. The Pont des Arts

3. Place de La Concorde

4. Musée Galliera

5. Avenue Montaigne

6. Petit Palais

Andy and Christian stroll through Paris after a hard day at the fashion shows. Andy is beginning to find this handsome writer more and more attractive…

The narrow streets between the Seine and Place Maubert – Impasse Maubert, Rue du Haut Pavé, Rue des Grands Degrés, Rue de l’Hôtel Colbert, Rue de la Bûcherie and Rue de Bièvre – offer us a glimpse of medieval Paris. At 15 Rue de la Bûcherie is a fine 17th-century building topped by an 18th-century rotunda. Now occupied by municipal services, it was once the city’s first faculty of medicine. The Rue de Bièvre follows the course of an old branch of the Bièvre, a small river that used to flow into the Seine before it was diverted into the city’s drainage system. It is now entirely covered over. Halfway down this street on the right you will find a charming garden that is not even marked on maps of the city…

The morning after her night with the charming Christian, Andy rushes across Paris to warn Miranda of the plot being hatched against her.

Built in 1802 to link the Louvre (the Palais des Arts under Napoleon) with the Institut de France (then the Collège des Quatre-Saisons), the Pont des Arts was the city’s first iron bridge. Embellished with shrubs and benches, the 156-metre-long footbridge – initially a toll bridge – is an eternally popular spot for artists and photographers, who find inspiration in this outstanding site and the superb views it offers of the city. In 1982 the bridge was rebuilt exactly as it was after it was seriously damaged by a barge.

The fashion shows are over. Andy has had one of the most intense experiences of her short career, but she realizes that her adventure in the fashion world is finished and decides to make a fresh start.

Designed by Jacques-Ange Gabriel in honour of Louis XV and built between 1755 and 1775, Place de la Concorde was a focal point of the French Revolution. The largest square in Paris (84,000 square metres), it is ringed by eight statues facing towards the French cities they represent. In the centre stands the 3,300 year-old pink granite obelisk of Luxor, a gift made by the Viceroy of Egypt to France in 1830. The magnificent Fountain of the Rivers and Fountain of the Seas, situated on either side of the obelisk, celebrate river and maritime navigation respectively. When this prestigious square is lit up at nightfall, it becomes a supreme symbol of the City of Light.

Andy is called out of a fashion show in the middle of her work by her tyrannical boss Miranda, waiting for her outside in a limousine.

Opened in 1977, it is housed in a Renaissance-style palace built at the end of the 19th century for the Duchesse de Galliera. The museum collects and displays creations that have marked the development of historical and contemporary fashion. Each year it presents two exhibitions, on a specific theme or a single couturier, revealing part of its huge collection of clothing and accessories from the 18th century to the present day.

Andy hurries along the famous avenue of couture houses, back to her hotel. During the fashion shows, Paris is a non-stop race against time…

Created in 1850, Avenue Montaigne is named after the 16th-century French writer Michel de Montaigne, famous for his Essais. The city’s focal point for high fashion and luxury goods, the avenue is home to all the great haute couture stores, such as Chanel, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton… and Prada.

Miranda and Andy arrive at the Petit Palais to attend a fashion show.

Reopened in 2005 after extensive renovation, the Petit Palais houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts. An architectural jewel built opposite the Grand Palais for the 1900 Exposition universelle, it displays artworks from antiquity to the early 20th century in an exceptional setting. Laid out around an interior garden, the interconnecting exhibition areas are lit by a series of large windows overlooking the Champs-Elysées gardens.