Vintage shops in Le Marais, two addresses checked

What we kept, and why the list is short

Two shops in the Marais pass all our tests together: an official website marked 2026, and a place in Time Out Paris’s selection of vintage and second-hand shops, whose page shows the date 3 July 2019. Other names on circulation had only an Instagram account, a website with no date or hours, a link that led to an unrelated site, or a Time Out entry without a reachable shop site. We left them out; an honest short list serves a visitor better than a long unchecked one.

The two addresses are designer vintage. Neither publishes prices, so we give none. L’OBSCUR gives its hours on its website, listed above; for dotCOMME, confirm them before you set out.

L’OBSCUR, 189 rue du Temple (3rd)

Designer vintage, described as fashion archives, together with records. The shop’s site is dated 2026 and also names a second address at 61 rue Quincampoix, in the 4th arrondissement. Time Out Paris lists the rue du Temple shop in the selection mentioned above.

Photo: Carreau du Temple, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On our Marais map, rue du Temple bounds the Haut-Marais on the west and Arts-et-Métiers on the east.

dotCOMME Paris, 12 rue du Roi-de-Sicile (4th)

Designer vintage, with Japanese designers named among its specialities. Time Out Paris gives the address and describes the shop as founded by a major Australian collector of Comme des Garçons, with raw brick walls and stock from Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Walter Van Beirendonck. We found no Paris opening hours: the website says “Open 7 days” beside the address of a Melbourne boutique, so it cannot be taken as the Paris timetable. Rue du Roi-de-Sicile forms the southern edge of the rue des Rosiers sub-district, with the rue de Rivoli; the rue des Rosiers page explains how the neighbouring shops behave on Saturdays and Sundays.

Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How to use this short list

Before a trip, check each shop’s website for current hours, since the only hours we could read for sure are L’OBSCUR’s.

What each shop says it sells

L’OBSCUR. Its website names avant-garde designers: Ann Demeulemeester, Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Undercover, Martin Margiela, Olivier Theyskens and more than twenty others. The stock covers women’s and men’s clothes, shoes, bags and accessories. The shop at 189 rue du Temple is inside a courtyard, reached with a door code, and the head office is at 61 rue Quincampoix. The site also lists an online shop with free worldwide delivery, a “sell to us” service for second-hand clothes, a rental option and a collection of vinyl records. It adds that the selection is updated almost daily.

dotCOMME Paris. Time Out Paris describes a shop founded by a major Australian collector of Comme des Garçons, with raw brick walls meant to recall the venues of fashion week. Time Out names Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake and Walter Van Beirendonck. Three of those four designers are Japanese, which is why the shop is the answer to the Japanese-designers question. We state nothing else about its stock or services, because the website we could read is that of the Melbourne boutique.

Both shops sit in the same field, avant-garde and Japanese designers, so a visitor who knows these names can compare the two; a visitor who does not will find the sources above more useful than any recommendation of ours.

Where the shops sit

We geocoded the three addresses with the French national address base and measured them against our database; distances are straight-line, and walking times use our method (distance × 1.3, at 80 m a minute).

• L’OBSCUR, 189 rue du Temple. 199 metres from the Carreau du Temple, 330 metres from the Marché des Enfants-Rouges and 375 metres from the Musée des Arts et Métiers. The nearest hotels are Paris France Hôtel, 67 metres away, and Le Relais du Marais, 80 metres; 13 hotels of our base are within 300 metres.
• L’OBSCUR, 61 rue Quincampoix (head office). 154 metres from the Centre Pompidou, which is closed, and 364 metres from the Museum of Jewish Art and History. Four hotels of our base are within 300 metres, the nearest being Hôtel Georgette, at 227 metres.
• dotCOMME Paris, 12 rue du Roi-de-Sicile. 148 metres from the rue des Rosiers, 184 metres from the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis and 190 metres from the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. Hôtel Le Temple de Jeanne is 90 metres away and Grand Hôtel Malher 92 metres; 13 hotels of our base are within 300 metres.

The two rue du Temple and rue du Roi-de-Sicile shops are 1,098 metres apart in a straight line, about 18 minutes’ walk. The two L’OBSCUR addresses are 846 metres apart, and the Quincampoix address is 928 metres from dotCOMME.

Why the Marais has a thrift-shop past

The Carreau du Temple, 199 metres from L’OBSCUR on the rue du Temple, descends from a second-hand clothes market of medieval origin, and the trade in old clothes was transferred to the site in 1802, according to Wikipedia. The present building, six pavilions of iron and cast iron by Jules de Mérindol and Ernest Legrand, opened on 1 August 1865 and has been a listed monument since 1982. Renovated by Studio Milou Architecture for €44.5 million, it was inaugurated on 20 February 2014, with a main hall of 2,300 square metres under a glass vault and a 250-seat auditorium. The hall hosts events and exhibitions rather than a permanent thrift market, so it is a stop for context, not for buying.

A route that links the two sides

From L’OBSCUR on the rue du Temple, the Marché des Enfants-Rouges is 330 metres away, about 6 minutes on foot; from dotCOMME, the rue des Rosiers is 148 metres away. The stretch between the two shops, 1,098 metres, crosses the Marais from north to south in roughly 18 minutes of walking, and L’OBSCUR, which opens on Sunday afternoon, is the one to plan a Sunday around.

Combining shops with the rest of the day

For department stores, markets and shopping streets, see our general page on shopping in Le Marais. For art after the boutiques, there are the Marais galleries. On a Sunday, our page on the Marais on Sundays lists what opens.

Hotels nearby

To compare hotels by arrondissement, see hotels in the 3rd or hotels in the 4th.