Paris Winter sales 2009

This year, the sales in Paris are starting on Wednesday, January 9 and will last until February 16.  Today, despite being the coldest day of the whole winter, the shops owners have not been disappointed and people have been waiting outside in temperatures under minus 5°C to be the first ones buying the best bargains although no French person would sleep all night outside Galleries Lafayette the way English people do outside Harrods. 

Discounts usually start at 30 per cent, rising after a week or so to 50 per cent and then 70 per cent.

If you are a bohemian at heart and you prefer a Bobo Chic Style, you will find the best shops in Saint Germain des Prés (4^th arrondissement), Boulevard Raspail is the place to start your shopping here. After lunch a walk along the Boulevard Saint Germain on the 6^th arrondissement will take you to fashionable addresses such as Sonia Rykiel on number 175, or Zef for fashionable clothes for children.

For those who like to have the trendiest fashions, Faubourg-Saint-Honoré on the 1^st arrondissement should be the place to start their shopping experience at number 6 on the Prada boutique. Not far from there on 244, rue de Rivoli, you will find Dolce & Gabbana. This is the area for the fashion victims. On the 9^th arrondissement you will find Printemps on 64, boulevard Haussmann.

For the Avant garde and those who want to find what might be fashionable in a couple of months, the most bizarre fashions, the most eccentric clothes, the Marais in the 4^th arrondissement is the place to be. The Marais district combines a whirl of creative design with the delights of the Jewish quarters which offers a magnificent preserved historic centre. Also a tour along the Abbesses on the 18^th arrondissement is recommended.

For those adepts of young fashion, the area around Bastille is the place to check out for designers and cool street wear.  The neighbourhood is very picturesque, in rue Charonne and rue Keller where shop windows compete with each other in colours.  The inhabitants of the neighbourhood are also worth seeing, sporting their neo punk styles; fans of vintage, tattooing and mangas.  The perfect place to end your shopping day is in one of its happy hour bars. 

Whatever your style, whatever your budget you will find plenty to see and buy in Paris.  Remember that the sales come only twice a year, January and June. 

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