To inaugurate its new 28,000-square-foot lingerie Paris shop, Galeries Lafayette is offering free half-hour lessons by professional striptease artists so that "women can familiarize themselves with the art of revealing their new lingerie. Nice.
At Galeries Lafayette, Parisians at the opening of the new lingerie shop, before three mannequins dressed (or undressed) in items of chic underwear. Thongs are the specialty, and striptease performances are included. Galeries Lafayette, the closest thing France has to Bloomingdale's, invited hundreds of guests on Tuesday evening to sip Champagne, stroll down a "street of temptation" named "Le Red Hot Boulevard" and examine 80 different brands of "strings" (the French word for "thongs"), brassieres, bustiers, corsets, panties and garter belts. The grand opening coincides with a rash of sexually explicit advertising campaigns for lingerie that have enraged feminist groups and a few outspoken lawmakers who charge that they exploit women and potentially encourage violence against them. Read full NY Times article
