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Paris Christmas Windows go futuristic with Lanvin and Le Bon Marche

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December 24, 2009

Categories: On the Road - Travel Tips and Spots, Retail Remedy

Lanvin Paris Christmas windows

Retail Remedy: Have yourself a very modern Christmas full of simple and clean artistic references...

Both luxury retailer Lanvin Paris and luxury department store Le Bon Marche take an artistic turn for their Christmas windows.

I especially like the clever holiday windows at the Lanvin men's and women's shop that have a surreal post-modern art feel.

Very modern and dramatic mannequins are tipped to 45 degree angles as if windswept to the next party. Or, perhaps the literal feel of New Year's Day.

(photo gallery below)

Le Bon Marché has the most innovative holiday windows this year. Video artist Bertrand Planes has an installation of four animated videos that take center stage. The windows all humorously reference the holiday turkey.

Le Bon Marche window with a whimsical hmage to the holiday turkey.

Le Bon Marche window with a whimsical hmage to the holiday turkey.

One window has cascading paper plates filled with projected turkey dinners on them. Another window with with a cloud of eyeglasses eyeing a turkey ballet much like an American musical. And the whimsical pair of lips singing a rock n' roll Christmas surrounded by a pile of big white letters. -- Richard, The Paris Insider

Video artist Bertrand Planes dresses the Bon Marche Paris holiday windows with a one with a pair of lips singing a rock n' roll Christmas surrounded by a pile of big white letters

Video artist Bertrand Planes dresses the Bon Marche Paris holiday windows with a one with a pair of lips singing a rock n' roll Christmas surrounded by a pile of big white letters

Photo gallery:

Visit in Paris:

Lanvin -Men
15 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 8th arr.
Lanvin- Women
22 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 8th arr.
Metro: Concorde

Le Bon Marché
24 rue de Sevres,7th arr.
Metro: Sevres-Babylone

Richard Nahem

Richard, The Paris Insider - Expat New Yorker and good time bon vivant, Richard Nahem is a fashion and trend insider reporting on what's nouveau in Paris. Richard is the founder of the wildly popular blog, Eye Prefer Paris and leads private shopping tours of Paris via Eye Prefer Paris Tours. He is a chocolate truffle hound who knows how to get to the front of the line. www.eyepreferparis.com / www.eyepreferparistours.com

Tags: Bertrand Planes, Christmas, Christmas windows, Holiday, Holiday windows, Lanvin, Le Bon Marche, modern, Paris, Retail Remedy, Richard Nahem
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