Inside Hôtel de Berri, The Paris Hotel With Elsa Schiaparelli’s Spirit

Photo Credit: Hôtel de Berri

Paris has no shortage of hotels with history. Hôtel de Berri has something more interesting: a former resident with enough personality to haunt the place — in the best possible way. At 22 rue de Berri, just off the Champs-Élysées in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, the five-star Luxury Collection hotel occupies an address once synonymous with Elsa Schiaparelli, the Italian-born couturière whose surrealist imagination helped rewrite the rules of…