Bernard Dubois is the architect desired by the whole fashion world. One day you may find him at a restaurant in Paris’ Marais, and the next in the pine forest of Cap Ferret. Entrusted by a range of houses and contemporary brands to imagine their flagship boutiques in his minimal and sensual style, the architect keeps one foot rooted firmly in Brussels—his birthplace—and the other on the high-speed French-Belgian Thalys train, to better see the world change scale in real time.
I meet Dubois on Avenue George V, in a four-floor mansion next to the Prince de Galles Hotel, in this golden triangle where
