‘This apartment was love at first sight. The view is incredible, the walls just ooze the flavour of Paris’ Style icon, vibrant doyenne of good taste, antiques dealer, interior designer and glittering party planner… Whether she’s on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue or London’s New Bond Street, launching a fashion brand in Los Angeles or decorating a palace in Bahrain, Paris-based Hélène Benhamou is blessed with an uncanny ability to reinvent herself. But, through all her incarnations, some traits never fail to shine through, namely her unbridled passion and inimitable flair, her ceaseless energy and larger-than-life personality.
“If something doesn’t excite me, I don’t do it,” says the Moroccan-born entrepreneur, photographed here in her art-filled apartment overlooking the famous Tuileries Garden, the Louvre Museum and all of Paris.
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