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Paris Shopping- Printemps Props the Chloé Edition Anniversaire Boutique

Retail Remedy: Just in time for Fashion Week, Printemps salutes Paris shopping with a special homage to Chloe. >> MORE: Paris Printemps is blowing out the candles on the 60th birthday celebration of Chloé big time. Gaby Aghion, the founder of Chloé, started the label in 1953 with a modest show at the Café de Flore. Since then it has grown into one of the most beloved and respected French fashion brands and is sold internationally. Aghion’s original theory was to do casual, free spirited clothing and accessories but with a couture backbone. Chloé has had an outstanding succession of designers over the years and the alumni incudes Karl Lagerfeld, Martine Sitbon, Stella McCartney, Phoebe Philo, and Hannah McGibbon. The current designer is

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I See Paris, I See France, I See Catherine Deneuve In The Store Window Glass

Catherine Deneuve windows
Retail Remedy: Paris Catherine Deneuve Windows at Le Bon Marché, and Kusama Windows over at Printemps It may be Paris Fashion Week, but there's plenty of Parisian élan off the runways too. Who better than Catherine Deneuve, the most iconic living French cinema legend, to kick off the launch of the 160th birthday of Le Bon Marché. >>READ: How about some French Chic? Catherine Deneuve windows La Deneuve is captured in the store windows with amusing graphic black and white illustrations by Marjane Satrapi. Each scenario is a well-known Paris landmark including Invalides, D’Orsay Museum, Place St. Sulpice, and of course, Le Bon Marché. Le Bon Marché was one of the first department stores in the world and started as a small shop in 1838 until Aristide Boucicaut turned

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House of Dior Homage Exhibition for Paris Fashion Week

Retail Remedy: Le Bon Marché in Paris showcases the Eternellement Dior We know how much Richard Nahem loves the Paris that he shares in his walking tours, and he will be tipping FocusOnStyle during Paris Fashion Week. Designer John Galliano has been certainly in the news this week for his rather horrific alleged comments caught on a cell phone video. I've been interviewed a bit for my opinion on this and, based on what I have seen thus far, personally support the House of Dior in its termination of the designer as its creative director in the wake of this situation. You can see the video on The Sun, here. Le Bon Marche Rive Gauche, a major Parisian department store

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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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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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