The 5 Vintage Clothing Shop You Can’t Miss in Nice
Second-hand shopping in Nice does not mean what it means in Berlin or London. There is very little of the
warehouse-sized friperie here and almost nothing of the student-priced rail; what Nice has instead is a
Riviera resale trade, built on a century of well-dressed people arriving with luggage and leaving things
behind — couture jewellery, signed handbags, deposited wardrobes, the contents of apartments in the hills.
The result is that “vintage clothing shop” in this city covers everything from an authenticated Hermès bag
behind glass to a genuine rummage in a back room. We went through every vintage, second-hand and
dépôt-vente clothing listing with a Google Business profile across central Nice — 40 of them once the
obvious mismatches were filtered out — and weighted each one’s rating against how many people actually left
it, because a 4.9 from three hundred reviews and a 4.7 from a hundred and thirty are not making the same
claim. Five came out clearly ahead, and between them they cover the full spread: two luxury dépôt-ventes
standing thirty metres apart in the Carré d’Or, a consignment house built entirely on designer handbags, a
proper old-fashioned friperie north of the shopping streets, and a record shop that has ended up on this
list for reasons of its own.
Second Hand Shop Mademoiselle, Rue de France
The highest-rated shop on this list and the most-reviewed with it — 4.9★ from 323 Google reviews, a
combination nothing else here matches. Mademoiselle runs no website at all, and
compensates by putting its entire business model into its own Google name: “Second Hand Shop MADEMOISELLE
Nice Luxe Vintage et Antiquités. Antiquaire à Nice. Dépôt vente Luxe.” That is four trades in one line —
second-hand, luxury vintage, antiques dealing, and luxury consignment — which is a fair description of how
this end of the Nice resale market actually works, where a wardrobe, a piece of jewellery and a piece of
furniture often arrive from the same apartment. It sits at 41 Rue de France, on the pedestrianised stretch
running back from the Promenade through the Carré d’Or, and it keeps southern-French hours rather than
shopping-mall ones: open from 10:00 AM (11:00 on Mondays) to 12:30 PM, then closed for lunch and back from
2:30 to 7:00 PM, Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays. Turn up at one o’clock and you will be looking at a
shutter. Phone 06 88 54 22 20.
Vintage & Dépôt-vente Déco Royal, Rue Meyerbeer
Thirty-six metres from Mademoiselle — we measured it off the coordinates, and it is genuinely around the
corner — Déco Royal matches it at 4.9★, from 246 reviews, and is the most
specialised shop here. Its own site places it in the Palais Royal at 6 Rue Meyerbeer and leads not with
clothing but with vintage haute-couture costume jewellery, weighted heavily towards the 1980s and 90s:
Christian Lacroix, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Céline, Karl Lagerfeld. Around that sit vintage luxury
handbags, antiques, art objects, perfumes and tea — a concept store in the literal sense rather than a
clothing rail. It buys as well as sells, advertising for “articles de marques à prix favorables,” and it runs
a consignment arm alongside its own storefronts on Etsy, eBay and ProAntic, so stock moves in and out through
several doors at once. That matters practically: what is in the window on a Tuesday is not a fixed
collection. Open 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Monday to Saturday, straight through the lunch that closes its
neighbour, closed Sundays. Phone 07 87 58 37 20.
Les Folies d’Eugénie, Avenue de Suède
The most-reviewed entry after Mademoiselle — 222 reviews at 4.5★, the lowest rating on this list and
still comfortably above the city average for the category. Les Folies d’Eugénie
is the one shop here that is not really a vintage clothing shop at all: it is a luxury handbag dépôt-vente,
selling bags that are second-hand, new, or in its own careful phrasing “jamais portés” — never worn — from
Chanel, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Gucci and Prada. Authentication is the entire proposition rather than a
footnote; the house line is that “chaque pièce est contrôlée par nos spécialistes,” and the business is built
around taking pieces on consignment, verifying them, and handling the payment and shipping in between. It is
no longer a single boutique either, having grown to seven addresses across France and Switzerland with an
online arm and a membership club, which is worth knowing before you go in expecting a one-off find. The Nice
branch is at 7 Avenue de Suède, a minute from Place Masséna and the Jardin Albert 1er, and it keeps the
longest week here: 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM every day except Sunday. Phone 06 18 20 94 08.
Very Bad Frip Vintage Shop, Rue de Lépante
After three shops built on authentication certificates, this is the friperie. The name says so: frip
is the everyday French shortening of fripe, the second-hand clothes trade, and Very Bad Frip Vintage Shop Compagny & C is the only one of the five that Google
files plainly as a clothing store with no antiques, jewellery or handbag business attached. It holds
4.7★ from 162 reviews at 9bis Rue de Lépante, north of the main shopping spine and about a ten-minute
walk uphill from the others — 1.1 km from Rue de France, which in a city this flat is nothing, but it does
put it outside the Carré d’Or circuit. There is no website, so what you get is what is on the rail. The
serious catch is the opening hours, which are the tightest on this list by a distance: closed Monday,
Tuesday and Sunday, open Wednesday to Friday 1:30 to 6:30 PM only, and Saturday 11:00 AM to 6:30 PM. Three
and a half afternoons a week. Ring 04 93 85 61 21 before making the walk.
Kosimi Records, Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes
The odd one out, and we are keeping it in rather than quietly dropping it, because the way it surfaces says
something true about the city. Kosimi Records is a record shop — the name makes
no secret of it — and it came up in a vintage-clothing search of central Nice with 4.7★ from 138
reviews, which is the sort of thing that happens where crate-digging and second-hand clothes share the same
shops, the same customers and the same corner of the map. Google classifies it simply as a “Store.” Its only
listed web presence is an Instagram account, and that account serves no readable text at all to anything but
a browser, so we are not going to tell you what is on its shelves beyond what it calls itself; go and look.
What we can say is where and when: 28 Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes, in the block between the Nice Étoile end of
the centre and the old town, 450 metres from Very Bad Frip and around 900 from the Carré d’Or pair. Open
Tuesday to Saturday, 12:30 to 7:00 PM, closed Sunday and Monday. Phone 06 52 95 47 91.
All five, on the map
The interactive map has all 40 qualifying vintage, second-hand and dépôt-vente
shops we found across central Nice, these five marked and numbered, and a button that hands the walking route
between them straight to Google Maps on your phone.
Doing a vintage crawl in Nice without wasting the afternoon
The geography is kind and the clock is not. Mademoiselle, Déco Royal and Les Folies d’Eugénie sit within
four hundred metres of each other in the Carré d’Or — that is one unhurried hour on foot, no transport
needed. Kosimi and Very Bad Frip are the outliers, roughly a kilometre north-east, and Very Bad Frip’s three
and a half open afternoons a week are what should decide your day: pick a Wednesday to Saturday, start
there, and walk back down towards the sea. Everything on this list closes on Sunday, and two of the five
shut for lunch. If you are visiting rather than living here, a local eSIM from Airalo means Maps and the shops’ own listings work from the moment you land
at Nice Côte d’Azur, which matters more than usual when opening hours are this fragmented; a booked transfer
from Welcome Pickups takes the airport-to-centre leg off the list
entirely. On the money side, second-hand and dépôt-vente pricing is where a foreign transaction fee actually
hurts — a four-figure bag carries a real spread — so a Wise or Revolut card paying in euros at the true rate is worth setting up before you
travel rather than after. And if you want to ask what era a piece is from, or whether the price moves, a
handful of lessons with a French tutor on Preply goes further in these shops
than in any restaurant: this is a trade conducted in French, by people who know exactly what they have.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best vintage shop in Nice?
By rating weighted against review volume, Second Hand Shop Mademoiselle on Rue de France comes out on top at
4.9★ from 323 reviews, with Déco Royal on Rue Meyerbeer matching the 4.9★ on 246. They are
thirty-six metres apart, so the honest answer is to do both — Mademoiselle for mixed luxury second-hand and
antiques, Déco Royal for vintage couture costume jewellery.
Which part of Nice has the vintage shops?
The Carré d’Or, the grid between the Promenade des Anglais and Place Masséna, holds three of these five —
Rue de France, Rue Meyerbeer and Avenue de Suède are all within four hundred metres of each other. The
remaining two sit north-east of the shopping centre, on Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes and Rue de Lépante.
Is vintage shopping in Nice expensive?
It depends entirely which door you go through, and this list splits neatly. Three of the five are luxury
dépôt-ventes trading in authenticated designer bags, couture jewellery and antiques, where prices reflect
authentication and provenance. Very Bad Frip is the one classified simply as a clothing store and the only
straightforward friperie of the group.
What does “dépôt-vente” mean on a Nice shopfront?
Consignment. The shop sells an item on behalf of its owner and takes a cut, rather than buying the stock
outright, which is why three of the shops here also advertise that they accept pieces from the public. Les
Folies d’Eugénie and Déco Royal both build their business around it, and Déco Royal buys outright as well.
Are these shops open on Sunday?
None of the five. Every shop on this list shows Sunday as closed in Google’s current data, and Very Bad Frip
is also closed Monday and Tuesday. Mademoiselle and Very Bad Frip both break for lunch. Check the individual
listing on the map before setting out, since hours shift seasonally even when the profile has not caught up.
- 1. Second Hand Shop Mademoiselle — 41 Rue de France, 06000 Nice
- 2. Vintage & Dépôt-vente Déco Royal — 6 Rue Meyerbeer, 06000 Nice
- 3. Les Folies d’Eugénie — 7 Av. de Suède, 06000 Nice
- 4. Very Bad Frip Vintage Shop — 9bis Rue de Lépante, 06000 Nice
- 5. Kosimi Records — 28 Rue de l’Hôtel des Postes, 06000 Nice