Story and photos by Richard Nahem, Eye Prefer Paris CorrespondentPrintemps is lightning up the the dreary, gray winter with their delightful Alice in Wonderland windows. The 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, and has given free rein to a group of top designers to use their imagination to create their own Alice dress. Haider Ackermann, Manish Arora, Chloé, Ann Demeulemeester, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, Maison Martin Margiela, Bernhard Willhelm, and the late Alexander McQueen have done a fabulous job in making Alice current and oh, so chic.
And as a tribute to the legendary Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Ladurée and Printemps has installed a tearoom with long community tables to make your very own tea party.
Until March 14
64 Blvd. Haussmann, 9th arr
Metro: Havre Caumartin
www.printemps.com
Richard Nahem is a native New Yorker who now lives in Paris. A successful New York City event planner and producer of cultural events, he has worked with many celebrities including Sarah Jessica Parker, Whitney Houston, and Joan Rivers. After a teenage trip to Paris made him an instant Francophile, he visited the city frequently until he made it his home (in 2005). With 25 years of rave reviews from friends and colleagues, Richard decided to take his own private tours of “his” Paris public. His goal for Eye Prefer Paris Tours is to provide fun, adventurous, and exciting tours of Paris for the independent-spirited traveler.
Beautiful photos. I’m going to rush to Printemps to check it out. Thanks for the tip this will be just the trick to cheer up a another gray winter day in Paris.