The store is studded with items she acquired during her

The store is studded with items she acquired during her 11-year Chanel career, including a Chanel 5 Perfume painting by Andy Warhol that hangs on a wall, photo books of her and her Chanel colleagues, and a bookshelf photo of Kehres posing inside the iconic Coco Chanel’s apartment.

In addition there is the Gucci collection that she acquired in college, and some of her broaches from the ‘90s.

Kehres especially appreciated what she calls the “Icon Wall,” which shows off the most desirable brands such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hermes, and of course Chanel — “all of the brands that we aspire to have.”

She enjoys watching walk-in customers touch and admire the gently used luxury goods as they fall in lust with the store.

She realizes that people often wish they could find the bag of their dreams for a price that they can afford, and her store brings those bags out of women’s closets and onto the shelves.

Boutique Classique items are guaranteed to be authentic, and Kehres’ industry connections speed the authentication process.

Her husband and store cofounder, Dr. Patrick Kehres, a former senior executive at Citibank, N.A, and Bank of America, oversees the financial aspects of the business while she minds the fashion aspects.

She does the merchandising, authenticating, customer relations, picking up and shipping the merchandise, and he does everything that she doesn’t do. They handle what they are more experienced with and enjoy doing.

“It’s fun, I’m the front end of it, and Pat loves to do the back end of it,” Kehres said.

Patrick and Karla both attended Palos Verdes High School, where they were high school sweethearts, and now their children attend the school.

Family is important to Karla and Patrick, who make it a point to go home and have dinner with their kids each night.

The Kehreses lived in Asia for 20 years, and although they loved their life, they did not lose the awareness that their home on the hill was thousands of miles away. They moved back in 2004, and both Karla and Patrick became teachers at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

He taught entrepreneurship and helped several students open up their own consignment shops, putting together ideas and business plans and running the fiscal aspects.

After teaching, the Kehreses weren’t ready to retire. Opening up Boutique Classique “just fit, and was meant to be.”