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Christmas Windows Paris- Chanel and Lanvin Holiday Displays

Retail Remedy: Rag dolls & dogs make for whimsy rather than traditional holiday window displays Not so traditional Christmas, c'est si bon! There's nothing that I love more on my walking tours of Paris than to spot the unexpected, especially during the holiday season. Take these whimsical windows, for instance... Lanvin Okay, the windows at Lanvin are not your conventional Christmas windows by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of cutesy dancing bears and marionettes gaily prancing, there are dogs wearing top hats, spectacles, and bow ties and bald headed mannequins spattered in white paint. Nonetheless, I think they are the cats meow and the dog's bark. And, almost as cute as the Printemps Loves Lanvin windows! Lanvin Love the

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Christmas Windows Paris- Printemps Loves Lanvin and Alber Elbaz for Holiday

Retail Remedy: Everybody loves Lanvin! Can Alber Elbaz do no wrong? Window shop these Paris holiday windows and see... Noel au Chateau where Mr & Mrs Lanvin once lived is the theme of this year's haute Paris Christmas windows... Printemps Paris The windows at Printemps are delightfully enchanting this year. Alber Elbaz, head designer for Lanvin, was chosen to create the windows this year. The theme is Noel au Chateau, and represents the famous Chateau Mr. & Mrs. Lanvin lived in. Marionettes styled after Mr. & Mrs. Lanvin dance their way through the various rooms of the chateau in each window with one of them being haunted by ghosts. >> LOOK at more beautiful store windows from Printemps Paris Actress

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Model Carmen Kass Shares Some Fashion Tips While Designer Reet Aus Takes Eco Chic To A New Level

Retail Remedy: A fashion collection that self-recyles adds a new spin on being fashionably green Everyday we hear recycle, recycle and more recycle. And now, Estonian designer Reet Aus had made it her fashion statement. With the help of her well-known supermodel friend Carmen Kass, Reet presented her collection last Friday at Beyond 7, at the retail launch of edgy fashion showroom Showroom Seven last Friday in New York's Meatpacking area. The Reet Aus collection is made entirely of the recycled materials. Designer Reet Aus But, here's the spin that makes this collection really edgy and intriquing... We are promised that the designer will not create a new collection every two weeks. However, the collections she creates uses organic materials

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In the Realm of the Fashion Senses

Retail Remedy: New shop to focus on foreign & lesser known trendy designers A REALM is a dominion of a monarch or other sovereign ruler. It is also happen to be the name of the new high fashion boutique that just opened in the heart of New York's SOHO at 98 Greene Street by Randi Jacobson. Blake Lively at the Realm boutique opening The idea of the boutique came to Randi after being unable to get access to less known trendy designers that dwell outside of US. Jacobson decided to represent them in New York and establish her own REALM where she rules fashion. The store is spacious and eclectic. Last week there was an official opening fit to a

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Printemps Paris Store Windows Love New York, Mr. Brainwash Style

Retail Remedy: While we are obsessing about Paris Fashion Week, Primtemps is in LOVE with New York! The grass is always greener on the other side of a trans-Atlantic flight... Here I am living in Paris and fending off questions about the Paris Fashion Week and the Parisain department store Printemps loves New York, my former hometown. Go figure. While Paris is overflowing with some of the most styled out fashion peeps in the world and celebrating French Chic like nobody's business, Printemps is celebrating the Big Apple with these clever window displays. Michael Kors and Campbell's Soup Spray Paint Fifteen iconic New york designers including Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Proenza Schueller and

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Hollister Has Bedbugs

During better times: Swimsuit clad boys perch outside the door of Hollister store in SoHo What will the half-naked models do on their days off? The NY Daily News reports that bedbugs shut Hollister store in SoHo. Apparently bedbug experts were called in to comb the 40,000 sq ft store which forced its 2-day closing. "We caught it very early in the stages of detection," said an Abercrombie & Fitch source quoted in the paper. "We are investigating whether this was a selling-floor issue or a back-room issue. We are continuing testing." We were just thinking that with the half-naked model boys cum gargoyles that perch alongside the store's front door a different type of creepy crawly bed-related critter would

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Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows salute fashion and whimsy

Printemps Paris Alice in Wonderland store windows Alice in Wonderland mania has taken Paris by storm! Printemps is lighting up the dreary, gray winter with their delightfully whimsical and chic Alice in Wonderland windows. The department store is celebrating the release of the new Tim Burton version of "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, with a very French fashion touch. Free rein was given to a group of top international designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress. Alice in Wonderland theme in the Printemps Paris windows Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, Chloé, Ann Demeulemeester, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, and the late

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Christmas Windows Paris- Galeries Lafayette & Printemps

Printemps Paris Holiday Windows Printemps Paris Holiday Windows Printemps Paris Holiday Windows Printemps Paris Holiday Windows Galeries Lafayette Paris Holiday Windows Galeries Lafayette Paris Holiday Windows Galeries Lafayette Paris Holiday Windows Galeries Lafayette Paris Holiday Windows Stay tuned for more holiday treats from Paris.-- Richard, the Paris Insider   Visit on your next trip to Paris:Printemps64 Blvd. Haussmann,9th arr. Metro: Havre Caumartin Galeries Lafayette40 Blvd. Haussmann, 9th arr. Metro: Chaussée-d'Antin Photos, this page only, eyepreferparis.com

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