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Article: The French connection On St Barts, cosmopolitan France comes to the Caribbean. For a few blissful days, Morag Reavley mixes with the beautiful people
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 4, 2004
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They're everywhere, the beautiful people. Pencil-limbed, cinnamon-
skinned and impossibly soigne, they breakfast by the pool in Lacoste
T-shirts and the waftiest of wraps, and end the evening sipping
Champagne under the stars. Welcome to the strange and stylish world
of St Barts.
We're familiar with boutique shops and hotels, even small,
intimate, exquisite boutique banks. St Barthelemy is a boutique
island. A rocky outcrop of eight square miles in the French West
Indies, this is an island of models, photographers and A-listers, the
winter playground of the fabulously fashionable.
"Stephen Marks, the founder of French Connection, has his house