The magic of Christmas is slowly flooding the streets. Lights illuminate the dark sky, while snowflakes fall to dress the highest mountains in white. Inside the cities, the fir trees are crowned with the mythical star, being present in homes and premises. And shop windows have been the first to prepare to welcome the last season of the year.
To end the last month of the calendar, the big houses join forces and collaborate to dress up their Christmas windows. Showing light and colour, transmitting to passers-by the joy of celebrating and giving thanks for the year lived with loved ones. Giving and receiving the best gifts, being able to find them through the shop windows. The showcases are full of art and illusion, because the latter must always be present.
Creating piece by piece with Louis Vuitton
Since 29 October, Louis VuittonChristmas displays have joined forces with the creative imagination of LEGO. This union already began with the celebration of 200 years of Vuitton’s birth, when the games brand created a giant cake made up of 31,700 pieces. And for this Christmas, the snowy trees in the shop windows transport people to the approaching winter. At the back of them, thousands of brightly coloured pieces. Meanwhile, the Vuitton trunks are covered in LEGO mosaics, stacking them up and reconstructing the Eiffel Tower.
Louis Vuitton’s Christmas window displays are brought to life through the colours of the little LEGO pieces.
In addition, some of the façades of the Maison have giant decorations, reaching 15 metres in height. In the same way, but in miniature, the packaging for shopping carries the LEGO motifs. Once the Christmas season is over, every piece used for the decorations will be donated to local associations so that school children can be inspired by the sets. To continue growing and building while having fun.
Christian Dior’s Gingerbread House
Nearby Hyde Park, London’s Harrods shopping centre, Christian Dior shines its huge star. Through the project The Fabulous World of Dior, the great facade glows in the dark, and the traditional window displays have disappeared, making way for gingerbread..
Inside, two pop-ups, an exhibition and a café await visitors until 3 January;
Gingerbread biscuits have been chosen to recreate a fantasy world within Harrods. Taking visitors on a journey through their imagination.
The 15-minute exhibition lets visitors immerse themselves in a micro-sized piece of furniture with symbolic Christian Dior locations with Christmas finishes. These include Granville, his birthplace, Colle Noire, one of his properties, and 30 Montaigne, one of his boutiques. As for the coffee, special products are offered for the occasion, recreating being inside Hansel and Gretel’s little house to enjoy sweets and hot drinks.
The art of Christmas origami
As in every Christmas season, restaurants, shops and centres prepare to dress their buildings and shop windows with Christmas lights, stars and gifts. This year, Belgian artist Charles Kaisin wanted to do his part and bring his art through the origami to the Glattshopping centre. Very close to the city of Zurich in Switzerland, Santa Claus and Rudolph, his reindeer, are waiting inside the centre to be visited. The Christmas installation features the figures hanging from the top of the building, having used around 70,000 hand-folded origami.
Father Christmas and the reindeer, made from origami, fly over the shopping centre. It is a marvel to be able to contemplate enormous figures made with something as simple as paper.
Hundreds of paper figures, in the shape of doves, preside over the space, transmitting life and colour, with the characteristic red and white of Santa Claus. In addition to the reindeer bathed in golden colour, which through its antlers draws a heart. In addition, until 10 December, visitors can take part in Japanese origami workshops, and enjoy the art at a very special time of year;
Dolce & Gabbana shines in London
The Italian fashion brand is another of the big names to take its best products to the streets this Christmas. The place chosen to install its pop up has been Covent Garden in London. Its exterior alone invites you to want to step inside to discover the best of Dolce & Gabbana. Its façade is full of different coloured lights, while its name presides over the entrance arch. And next to it, the traditional Christmas tree.
While its exterior is dressed in a thousand colours, the interior of the pop up is bathed in red, showing all its products elegantly posed. One of the most special Christmas window displays
Visitors can enjoy the shop until 15 January in Covent Garden’s East Square. Under the four walls of the pop up you can feel the Italian essence, discovering the perfect prints and designs for the coldest time of the year. The variety of products on offer is wide, ranging from groundbreaking bags to the most comfortable shoes. The range of products on offer is wide and includes everything from ground-breaking bags to the most comfortable shoes, with jumpers and sweatshirts to combat the cold.
Images courtesy of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Glatt, Covent Garden London
