TheShoeGoddess.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
While in America, we have Bloomingdale’s, Barneys, Saks and Neiman Marcus to name a few, Paris is full of its own department stores, and they are truly magnificent. From the architecture to the many different departments, these stores offer everything you could imagine from both high end and medium priced designers. And mostly all of [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
See more news releases in: , Mont Charles de Monaco Launches High Fashion Signature Handbag Collection at Galeries Lafayette During Paris Fashion Week MONTE CARLO, Monaco, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Mont Charles de Monaco, the premier high fashion label of the Principality of Monaco, has chosen Galeries Layfayette, Paris's leading luxury fashion department store, in order to enter the French...
The Informed Traveler (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The City of Light is getting a slew of new luxury hotels next year– from the Shangri-La to the Royal Monceau- A Raffles Hotel. Not to be left behind, W Hotels has picked a prime piece of real estate in the Opéra district to bring its signature “wow factor” to the French capital. Housed in a Haussman-era building across the street from the famous Opéra Garnier (and near Galeries Lafayette and...
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In March 2006 the luxury British retailer opened its largest outlet outside the UK in Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates. The store is operated by the Al Tayer Group.High-end store Saks Fifth Avenue opened in BurJuman in 2004 as a joint venture with the Chalhoub Group, and launched a second branch on The Walk at the Jumeirah Beach Residence in 2008.France’s Galeries Lafayette, a partnership between...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
My niece popped in on me for 3 days while in Paris and mentioned in passing that I seem to shoot an awful lot of things in rows... Out of the mouths of babes... It is true that I often shoot things in rows... But I didn't arrange them like these balcons at Galeries Lafayette, a great purveyor of rows like the previous parfum bottles... Another obsessed row-liner-upper is Patisserie Stohrer ,...
Cafe du Design (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
A Hong Kong brand ‘IZZUE‘ (I.T Group, H.K.) enters the french fashion market. The most famus french department store, Galeries Lafayette, presenting the young collection between 18 to 30 years old. I am proud of my hometown, HK fashion in France, this is very impressive! PS: To make it 100% ‘Hong Kong’, Izzue should use H.K. models [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
PARIS.- The 36th edition of FIAC , which will take place from October 22nd to October 25th at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carre'e of the Louvre Museum and in the Tuileries Garden, will bring together 180 modern and contemporary art galleries. The FIAC and its official partner, the Groupe Galeries Lafayette, will launch a new program designed to support galleries of the younger generation, to...
Paris Breakfasts (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... With Frenchies...I'm sticking to the back. Look purple socks! A purple hoodie and a scooter in Galeries Lafayette ! Chic Parisiens leaving the Louvre on a rainy day... Apartment browsers with blue boots and ballerinas... Apartment ads are a good place to catch the unaware Parisien... Shirt tails hanging out... Seems to be ever present on Paris streets... A front shot of feet! Is this woman...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... will be carried in between 30 and 35 doors worldwide, including the U.S.'s Nordstrom and France's Galeries Lafayette. There has been no mention of a designer who will actually create the line or an announcement of who will be the face of the line. The company could just do a house line, but it would sell better if customers know who was choosing the colors and the types of skin products....
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
While celebrities watched models strut down catwalks during fashion week in Paris, dozens of people lined up in the rain to buy 40 euro cashmere sweaters at the newly opened Uniqlo store in the city's Opera district. Two days earlier, it was "impossible to get inside" the store, which is across the road from the Galeries Lafayette department store, Guillaume Terne, 24, said. "There...
Young Germany RSS feed (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... decided by Internet vote and presented during the exhibition of the finalists’ collections at the Galeries Lafayette Berlin. In recent months the Goethe-Institute and its partners have been promoting interest in the project with numerous events in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Support for “createurope” has comefrom a wide range of fashion design schools in over 26 countries including...
BagBunch - Bags, Handbags & Purses (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... the label debuted its new in-store boutique on the renowned luxury-laden ground floor of Paris' Galeries Lafayette . The new boutique displays Mont Charles' new 2010 Haute Maroquinerie collection, which includes exotic skins and ultra-feminine, sophisticated designs that are meant to be a fashion investment for women. "The world absolutely associates Monaco with glamour", stated Founder...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Bloomberg reports that the Uniqlo store is a hit in Paris. Bloomberg says people were lining up outside the store in the rain for the chance to buy one of Uniqlo's 40 Euro cashmere sweaters. Two days earlier, it was "impossible to get inside" the store, which is across the road from the Galeries Lafayette department store, Guillaume Terne, 24, said. "There has been so much talk...
The Scented Salamander (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... in December 2007.Edition Ettore Sottsass will be available at select points of sale like the Galeries Lafayette in Paris (50 copies) and the Issey Miyake boutique on rue Royale. It is priced at 300€ or about US $442.Previous Posts in Fragrance News:Posted by Marie-Helene Wagner on October 12, 20093685
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... to take note when what's billed as the world's largest footwear emporium opens at the venerable Galeries Lafayette department store on the très chic Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The 34,500-square-foot shoe Parnassus opened in July. Reached by a gold and white staircase worthy of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, it has chocolate-brown leather sofas for the trying-on...
