Department stores - activities

History and traditions: behind the scenes of Christmas window displays in Paris

Christmas window displays in Paris are a veritable part of our heritage! Every year during the festive season, passers-by flock to the windows to admire the decorations and displays designed to enchant young and old alike.

Journées du Patrimoine 2023 in Paris: la Samaritaine, guided tours on reservation

La Samaritaine awaits you once again for the Journées du Patrimoine in Paris, on September 16 and 17, 2023. Between free guided tours and well-kept secrets, discover the history of the smallest of the department stores!

Shopping centers and department stores opening on May 8, 2024 in Paris and the Île-de-France region

Feel like doing a little shopping on Wednesday, May 8, 2024? Many shopping centers and department stores in Paris and the Paris region are keeping their doors open even on this public holiday. Find out which ones!

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche opens a new space dedicated to well-being and beauty

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche is dedicating a new space to the cult of well-being and beauty, to be discovered from September 5, 2022. A timeless setting, where luxury and refinement go hand in hand with the excellence of the expertise of the most prestigious skincare brands.

Black Friday 2024 in department stores and shopping centers in Paris and the Île-de-France region

Black Friday is this Friday, November 29, 2024. A special day that launches a salvo of promotions of all kinds in department stores and shopping malls, and a real bargain in the run-up to the festive season! Over time, the day of discounts has turned into a week, and in some cases even a month! We're sharing with you the addresses taking part in the operation.

Behind the scenes Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche’s Christmas windows: visit the workshops

On Wednesday October 12, 2022, Le Bon Marché Rive gauche unveils the secrets to their Christmas windows for two exceptional tours to enjoy with your family. For the first time, the workshops of dream open to let us admire the Parisian department store’s elves’ precious know-how.

LVMH’s Les Journées Particulières 2022 in Paris: surprise at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche !

Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche expects you on October 14 and 15, 2022, for two exceptional nights held during LVMH’s Les Journées Particulières 2022 in Paris. This year, for the store’s 170th anniversary, you are invited to enjoy a never-before-seen experience… So hard to say no!

Global warming: air-conditioned stores obliged to close their front doors

To fight against global warming, the City of Paris and several others have issued a decree obliging air-conditioned stores to close their front doors, under threat of a fine, to prevent higher energy consumption.

Lacoste Arena: Lacoste’s new flagship on the Champs-Elysées

Lacoste Arena opened their biggest store on the Champs-Elysées this past May 20, 2022. Genuine arena, at the crossroad of cultures, generations and talents, let us tell you more about this phenomenon!

MamaSens, the Pourcel brothers' restaurant at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann

The Pourcel brothers are back in Paris after a 10-year absence with a Mediterranean restaurant, MamaSens, in Galeries Lafayette Haussmann.

Christmas 2021 in Paris: a roller dancefloor to Disney+ music comes to the Galeries Lafayette

Roller-dancing to cult Disney+ songs? Here is the fantastic experience provided by the Galeries Lafayette for this Christmas 2021 in Paris.Children and adults, rehearse your most fantastic steps, the dancefloor is yours from December 1 to 23, 2021! And it is free of charge.

La Samaritaine unveils the biggest beauty corner in Europe!

La Samaritaine reopens from June 23, 2021. After waiting for 16 years, Parisians and tourists can discover the renewal of the smallest of department stores in town. And surprise: it has the biggest beauty corner in Europe!

Covid: restaurants, museums, bars, movie theaters, gyms... to reopen from mid-May?

As cultural life is almost at a standstill for months, and that restaurants, gyms, bars, places of nightlife are closed for even longer, Emmanuel Macron has just given hope to the French: in his address on March 31, the French President announced the reopening agenda of all these places will start on May 15, 2021.

Covid: shopping malls and department stores are wondering when they will be allowed to reopen

In order to curb the coronavirus epidemic in the country, French Prime Minister has decided to close all non-food shopping malls and department centers from January 31. This February 17, retailers’ federations are asking for more visibility with a reopening calendar, for instance.

Paris Galeries Lafayette launches the "Exclusive Live Shopping" online service

Now allowed to reopens, Galeries Lafayette have adapted to the health situation with the "Exclusive Live Shopping", an online and live video shopping service.