IT will be the end of an era in Collins Street, with exclusive boutique Le Louvre shutting its famous polished copper French doors for good, in January.
 
The 87-year old retailer is bidding au revoir to the “Paris End” of the city named after it - eight months after its second generation owner Georgina Weir sold the 1855 building to Queensland-based fund manager QIC for $13.1 million.
 
Le Louvre will relocate to another historic and heritage protected South Yarra building at 2 Daly Street, owned by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board since 1927.

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