Toulouse: store windows have brought out their festive habits
In this month of December, traders compete for creativity in their window. One of the most unusual tours in the streets of Toulouse.
It’s raining lights on the Pink City in December, and store windows are a big part of this Christmas fairyland. As usual, the Galeries Lafayette took care of their entrance with a luminous “1, 2, 3 Noël” sign, garland curtains and above all magnificent trees, chock full of balls.
More sober, but just as noticed by passers-by on the rue de la Pomme, the window of the decoration shop “Chez Zel” also worth the detour. Designed by Elodie Fontoura, it consists on the outside of a luminous arch which reproduces that of the storefront and of trees. Inside, there is a driftwood branch hanging from the ceiling and decorated with fir, from which have been suspended blown glass balls of different sizes and shapes. The whole is highlighted by a led curtain placed at the back. “The window must make people dream. I’m happy that people notice it because I put my heart into it, ”admits the store manager.
At the hairdressing salon at 27 rue des Polinaires, Laurent Sentenac has also developed a pretty showcase all in white and gray. There is a frosted tree hanging upside down, lighted stalactites and nutcrackers dressed in bright clothes, mushrooms with golden hats, fluffy snow… For this hairdresser, “we don’t laugh with Christmas, c ‘is the month of wonder’.
In her shop Terra Rosa, 3 rue des Prêtres, Sylvie Giachetti has bet on a minimalist window, which still has its effect with its immense golden mobile which overhangs a forest of paper fir trees, represented in a gradient of green and purple. “I wanted to evoke the soul, the sparkle and the poetry of Christmas”, slips Sylvie Giachetti.
In a completely different spirit, Fabrice Badorc, the co-manager of Land of legends, 44 rue Gambetta, presents a huge fresco on the commune of Paris and the struggles, designed by Alice Boubé. We see extracts from comics, such as “The People’s Cry” by Jacques Tardi, “Des damnés de la commune” by Meyssan… and even a Soviet superman. Like every year, this comic bookstore “seeks to make a Christmas window with an offbeat theme”. Very successful !