Paris at Christmas!

More window shopping today - Galleries La Fayette is the equivalent of London's Selfridges, and so all their windows were 'done up' for Christmas. Not nearly as spectacular or classy as Selfridges, but they were fun and child-friendly. This year they were carrying the theme of 'musicals', so each window was related to a particular musical. I took Catie along and she added to the Christmas spirit with her red coat and singing all the theme tunes!

  

 

Mary Poppins and Singing in the Rain (changed to 'snow') were both great - with mannequins dressed up in the windows and for Mary Poppins, bits and bobs on strings flying out of her carpet-bag, although the photos didn't come out too great because of the glass reflections. There was also West Side Story, Mamma Mia and Hairspray. Printemps had a FANTASTIC window, which I truly loved (and not because it was pretty much completely pink). All of the window displays 'moved' in someway - puppets or items tied to fibre-string, so supposedly moved 'by themselves'. The Printemps window (see below) was set up with loads of tables, with little puppets (very clever) having a big tea part, with huge pink cakes etc. It reminded me of my Textiles project! :)