It's (almost) Christmas ! Halloween has barely ended and already the Queen of Christmasaka Mariah Carey, comes out of his den to put us his biggest hit in my head all day long. Soon, the thousands of chocolates and the Advent calendars galore will enter our lives. But before that, Paris is preparing to put on its costume of light : all the department stores are adorned with their most beautiful decor to illuminate the capital and reveal one after the other their new holiday windows for 2024. The season is on!
A colorful Christmas at BHV
This year, it is the BHV which launches the hostilities from this Wednesday November 6 at 6:30 p.m., with a huge sound and light show. The opportunity to discover what the brand has concocted for us this time. And after having went all in on green last yearthe best-known Bazaar in Paris has decided to vary the pleasures this year, this time tackling to color as a whole. In partnership with the French illustrator Limisticthey imagined pop and full of life windowsto transform the department store into huge enchanted house invaded by mischievous elves.
BHV Marais
52, rue de Rivoli – 4e
Inauguration on November 6, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.
The train enters the station at Printemps Haussmann
The next day, direction Spring Haussmann to continue this good momentum. And after Isabelle Huppert two years ago and Catherine Deneuve last year was the big one Juliette Binoche who takes over this year to inaugurate Spring Express. The store's Christmas train will travel between woods and forests before marking several steps along the windows. In each of them, passengers made using recycled fabrics will immerse us in the excitement of the end-of-year holidays. The opportunity to celebrate as it should be 100 years of Christmas windows in Spring!
Spring Haussmann
64, boulevard Haussmann – 9e
Inauguration on November 7, 2024 at 5 p.m.
The magical Samaritaine forest
The November 8double dose of pleasure with the Good Market et the Samaritan woman. And this year, the magnificent store Art Deco and Art Nouveau takes us into a magical and enchanted garden imagined in partnership with Thoiry Wild Lights. Inside and out, giant plants et magical creatures bright are deployed to transform the brand into XXL greenhouse. Each path is transformed into a marvelous garden, ready to reveal all its secrets to you and take you on a journey through the giant mushrooms, fantasy snails and others huge butterflies. Enough to feel very small!
The Samaritan
9, rue de la Monnaie – 1st
Inauguration on November 8, 2024 at 6 p.m.
A Parisian Christmas at Le Bon Marché
On the other side of the Seine, it is the Good Market who alone bears the heavy responsibility of putting in place Christmas window displays worthy of the name. For the occasion, the department store chose the theme “Christmas in Paris”and dives us for that in the shoes of… the Eiffel Tower ! In decorations typically Parisianthe magic of the holidays comes alive to offer us regressive and recreational scenes. Pavements, Haussmannian facades, street lamps and other fountains, all the markers of the City of Light become the scene of games and enchanted stories.
Cheap Left Bank
24, rue de Sèvres – 7th
Inauguration on November 8, 2024 at 5 p.m.
130 years of magic at Galeries Lafayette
To finish, you will have to wait a little to be able to admire the lights of the last of Parisian department stores. To do this, go to November 14 at Galeries Lafayettewho are celebrating this year their 130th Christmas ! An extraordinary birthday, orchestrated by Kevin Germanier, at the origin of Golden Voyageur from the Olympic closing ceremony. Bright, sparkling colors, costumes made from recycled materials, and of course giant tree decorated with 20,000 light points under the dome, here is, in broad terms, what awaits you for this Christmas 130 times more magical than usual.
Galeries Lafayette
40, boulevard Haussmann – 9e
Inauguration on November 14, 2024
