Les Archives, located in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, is a secondhand designer store rendered entirely in millennial pink. This is not your typical Aladdin’s Cave vintage shop, where rails are stacked on top of each other and garments fill every corner. The blush-toned space is sparse, with a smattering of shoes on a couple of wall-mounted shelves, a few magazines, and a pink reproduction of a Mario Bellini Camaleonda sofa. Around 250 items, give or take, hang evenly on clothing rails that line each side of the shop. “I like to keep the store well-spaced,” said the owner and sole employee, 29-year old Nicolette Contursi. “I don’t want it to feel overwhelming.”
It’s widely understood that to shop secondhand is to…