Categories
Tags
8th district About Paris Arc de Triomphe art beach bicycle biodiversity Born Wild champs elysees crocodile district ecolabel event exhibition fashion festival free gare de lyon Grand-palais grands magasins Haussmann holiday hotel jazz louvre monument museum museums organic food paris 8 paris plages restaurant Richard ORLINSKI Rue de Charenton summer sustainable developpement sustainable tourism transports travel guide Trip Trocadero velib Warhol wifi yves saint laurent
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Recent Posts
grands magasins
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!
Find an hotel in Paris:
Christmas in Paris : 2010 most beautiful lights and windows displays
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 | Main events, Uncategorized | No Comments
If there is ever a magical moment to visit Paris, it’s during the Christmas period! When the cold seizes the city and the days are getting shorter, Paris pulls all the stops out to draw our attention, adorning itself with thousands of lights.
If you are visiting Paris this winter, you’ll enjoy many family activities organized in town: Concorde’s Great Wheel, the rink at the Hotel de Ville or Paris numerous Christmas markets are perfectly suited to begin your Xmas shopping or to drink a glass of mulled wine perfumed with cinnamon … There are many Christmas markets in the city: at Nation, Abbesses, Trocadero, La Defense, on the Champs Elysees or near the Gare de l’Est, where you’ll find a traditional Alsatian Christmas market.
But if Christmas lights are nice on the Champs Elysees, don’t miss the Grand Boulevards! Have a walk on the boulevard Haussmann, you will enjoy the department stores wonderful Christmas window displays: a must!
As for me, the Printemps offers the most beautiful window displays, with decors designed by Valentino, Yves Sainr Laurent, Nina Ricci or Alexander McQueen on the theme “Christmas at the Castle” (Noël au Château). There come ball gowns, furs and hunting trophies surprisingly together, like in a country parody of Coppola’s movie Marie-Antoinette scene. Your children will enjoy the windows showing Alber Elbaz’ little black and white people, in the purest tradition of animated displays. › Continue reading
