“People are very lazy,” says Christiane Celle, proprietor of the Calypso boutique chain, as an explanation of her retail strategy, which seems to have more in common with Duane Reade or Starbucks than ...

What made you decide to open Clic? When I sold Calypso, I decided that I wanted to do something very different. My husband [Antoine Verglas] is a photographer and I’ve been collecting books and ...