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Summer sales 2011
Friday, June 24th, 2011 | Main events | No Comments
Only a few days left before the beginning of the summer sales in Paris! From June 22nd at 8am to July 26th at midnight, clients will clean out the stores to find the the fashion “Must-Have” of the summer. Indeed, since 2008, the summer sales have become an essential rendezvous before summer holidays, every last Wednesday of June.
Hence, Wednesday morning at 8am, Daphné Bürki, an editorial from the French magazine Be, will kick off the sales at the Galerie Lafayette Haussmann! She will welcome the first clients with a collector bag “Be fête les soldes aux Galeries Lafayette” (Let’s celebrate sales with Be at Galerie Lafayette) and “petits fours”.
Prices will be displayed with 30-50% discount on a wide selection of every kind of products. Products from the brand “Galerie Lafayette” will even have a 60% discount!
If you’ve been dreaming of a new pair of shoes or a new bag for the last six months, don’t have qualms anymore! Rush into the stores to find your size and the best products before they’re sold out! Alternatively, if you prefer to avoid the general excitation and the long checkout lines, you can order everything you want on the internet. Lots of online shops provide interesting discounts for the sales.
Here are some unmissable products for the summer:
- Colors: Flashy colors such as coral, turquoise and fuchsia.
- Materials: lace, fishnet, cotton, deerskin.
- Patterns: Vichy, Liberty, flowers, panther, Python, dots and scratches.
- Shapes: combination, shorts, long skirts and wide pants.
- Details: ropes, fringes, feathers, pleated, English embroidery, gildings and glitters. The butterfly will be everywhere!
Get ready, sales are coming!
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Retrospective Yves Saint-Laurent
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | Main events | No Comments
The first retrospective Yves Saint Laurent, currently at the Petit Palais
Until August 29, the Petit Palais presents the first retrospective devoted to the work of the designer Yves Saint Laurent. Occuring less than two years after the death of the Haute-Couture French grand-name, this exhibition is a tribute to 40 years of career that revolutionnized fashion.
Initiated by the Pierre Bergé, his partner for over 50 years, and president of the Foundation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, and the Museum of Fine – Arts of Paris, the exhibition presents more than 300 models as well as many sketches, documents, and films in order to illustrate his extraordinary work.
Since the start of hit career at Dior in 1958, to the gorgeous evening dresses of his last years of creation, emblematic parts of the “Saint-Laurent style” are presented to the public, tracing the evolution of dress codes at the end of the 20th century: cabans, safari-jacket, tuxedo or pants-suit, Saint-Laurent drew for the modern woman an androgynous silhouette, which borrows from the men’s locker room attributes of power.
An exciting exhibition to discover or rediscover the models which have freed women, and radically transformed her wardrode.
Petit Palais
Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
+33 1 53 43 40 00
Access
Métros 1-13,
Champs-Elysées- Clémenceau
Opening times
Tue – Sun 10.00 – 18.00
Night opening on Thursday
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ELLE Decoration Suite, Carte Blanche to Jean Paul Gaultier
Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
If you you are crossing near the Trocadero in May this year, don’t miss the next Hill of Chaillot fashion event!
For the third consecutive year, the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine and the trendy magazine ELLE Decoration entrust a renowned designer with the relooking of the Suite Jacques Carlu.
After Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela, it is the turn of Jean-Paul Gaultier to have carte blanche to reviving this very beautiful space formerly inhabited by Jacques Carlu, architect of the palais de Chaillot.
With its view of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, zero doubt that the Carlu Suite will inspire the designer of the stars and take unpublished accents, rock, and glamorous keys.
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