Noel in the Window at Printemps

Printemps is celebrating Noel in extravagant Slavic style this year with shop windows transformed into snowy wooden datchas featuring puppet personnages created by Chanel and Dior’s John Galliano and Victoire de Castellane. They’ll be accompanied by giant matryoshka dolls, decorations inspired by Russian fairy tales and in-house performances by the Ballet Russe de Paris, along with miles of pine boughs and garlands of lights, bouquets of red and white roses and some 130 Christmas trees. The ephemeral Christmas Boutique Noire this year has multiplied into five different locations scattered throughout the store’s three buildings, offering a glittering array of Christmas cadeaux ranging from Russian-inspired candles and ornaments to Atelier Ruby’s gold motor-bike helmets and coyote-fur mittens by luxury glove-makers Maison Fabre (64 blvd Haussmann, 9th).