Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, luxury fashion and lifestyle store En Avance, a pioneer in Miami’s Design District founded by Karen Quinones, hosts the first Maison Francis Kurkdjian store-within-a-store in the United States. The new collaborative concept opened on Saturday, April 14, 2018 in Paradise Plaza – 151 NE 41st Street, Suite 129 Miami, FL 33137 in the Miami Design District, a neighborhood dedicated to innovative fashion, design and architecture. To commemorate this silver milestone and new partnership, over 160 longtime friends of the brand came to celebrate and support this meaningful new juncture.
“What an amazing way to ring in my 25th year and celebrate this amazing collaborative concept with Maison Francis Kurkdjian. I’m really proud of the beautiful Store we created together,” said Karen Quinones, founder of En Avance.
En Avance and Maison Francis Kurkdjian, an iconic French luxury fragrance house co-founded by master perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and its President & CEO Marc Chaya, share a portion of the space designed by Forall Studio in Paris who created perfectly the chic elegance of Maison Francis Kurkdijan Paris Boutique. En Avance is a chic loft type retail environment with beautiful white concrete floors and an exclusive repertoire of magical themed Fornasetti wallpaper panels that are at once iconic and covetable. The edited selection of designer fashion, accessories and home decor is displayed on metal racks and white lacquer Calligaris furniture. Free floating dressing rooms draped with custom red velvet curtains added a hint of drama to the architectural design of the space. Guests sipped on Moet Champagne Minis and enjoyed first hand looks of styles curated by owner Karen Quinones who has provided a platform to showcase young new talent from across the globe.
“It was such a nice way for Francis & me to celebrate the opening of our first boutique in the United States in collaboration with Karen & En Avance! The party was all about friendship, beauty and good vibes,” exclaimed Marc Chaya, Co-founder & CEO of Maison Francis Kurkdjian.
Notable Attendees: Louis Aguirre, Barbara Becker, Tracy Mourning, Sam Robin, Gabrielle Union, Veronica Webb
About En Avance
Celebrating its milestone 25th year, En Avance, established in 1993, has been a platform to showcase young new talent from across the globe. With its innovative, timeless, luxurious, yet functional sense of style, owner Karen Quinones carefully selects, curates and features new young talent and established designers also stocking sustainable fashion and beauty brands. Along with clothing, En Avance features exquisite fine jewelry, luxury lingerie, books, French ceramics and also exclusively presents Fornasetti’s furniture, objects and decorations adding a fresh and whimsical mix to her curation.Being the first multi-brand boutique to come to the Miami Design District in 2006, En Avance continues to be a destination at the forefront in the ever evolving industry.
About Maison Francis Kurkdjian
Maison Francis Kurkdjian was born in 2009 from the encounter between Francis Kurkdjian, a renowned master-perfumer with scores of successful creations to his name, and Marc Chaya, ex Ernst & Young advisory partner. Together, they fulfil their desire for a sensual, generous and multi-facetted landscape of free expression, creating a new emblem of French know-how and lifestyle. Maison Francis Kurkdjian has since developed into a key player in the luxury fragrance market with presence in nearly 500 ultra-selective retail locations in more than 40 countries. The Maison Francis Kurkdjian collection is sketched like a fragrance wardrobe, with myriad of facets of emotions. Designed in the tradition of luxury French perfumery, it advocates nevertheless a contemporary vision of the art of creating and wearing perfume. Maison Francis Kurkdjian has been a member of Comité Colbert since January 2016.
