Parisian concept store Merci launched its month-long collaboration last week with Liberty, London’s favourite emporium of fashion and design. The doors opened on Carnaby Street to reveal a riot of delightful products, all designed by Merci’s founder, Marie France Cohen. Journalists enjoyed Croque Monsieur and chocolat chaud on a cold March morning and left with bags of merchandise – ranging from the wildly popular flowery suitcases to itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikinis – happy in the knowledge that much of Merci’s profits will be donated to Marie France’s Charitable Foundation in Madagascar.