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Paris: Fashion & Design Lens

Couture, perfume and masterpieces: where art, fashion and creativity meet.

The dome of the Galeries Lafayette department store
Students painting in MontmartreStudents in a perfume atelier
Length
5 nights · 6 days
Subjects
Art history, Design, Economics
Meals
Breakfast, packed lunch, dinner
Guide
French guide for the whole stay, on request

Why teachers choose it

EXPERIENCE

Couture museums, a painting session on the Place du Tertre and the Aura light show under the Invalides dome.

LEARNING

Fashion history, the luxury economy, the chemistry of perfume and Impressionist technique.

MEMORIES

Their own painting of the Sacré-Cœur, and Monet’s Water Lilies all around them.

For your curriculum

Subjects

Art historyDesignEconomicsChemistry

Skills

CreativityVisual analysisUnderstanding the fashion industryPainting outdoors

Learning objectives

  1. 1Follow fashion history and couture craftsmanship, from Galliera to Alaïa.
  2. 2Understand the fashion and luxury industry, from creation to market.
  3. 3Paint outdoors in Montmartre, the way the Impressionists did.

Topics covered: Art history: Impressionism, Monet, Renaissance, contemporary architecture · Economics: fashion & luxury · Chemistry: perfume · Design

Your curriculum: we adapt the programme to the British, French or IB curriculum your students follow.

Students take part

DAY 2Inside couturier Azzedine Alaïa’s studio-gallery
DAY 2 EVENINGAura light show, Dôme des Invalides
DAY 5Montmartre painting experience
Teacher Pack
  • Learning objectives for each day
  • Activity and challenge sheets for students
  • Group leader information: timings, contacts, emergency numbers
  • Ideas to prepare the trip in class and follow it up
Ask for a sample Teacher Pack

Day by day

  1. Day 1

    Galliera & Louvre

    MorningMusée Galliera. Paris’s fashion museum: couture and costume from the 18th century to today.Art history · Fashion history · fashion as a mirror of society and the economy
    AfternoonLouvre Museum. From the Mona Lisa to the Venus de Milo: the masterpieces that shaped Western art, including the Renaissance.Art history · Renaissance to Romanticism
    EveningCafeteria dinner. Cafeteria Wagram.
  2. Day 2

    Alaïa, Orsay & Aura show

    MorningGalerie Alaïa. Step into the Marais studio-gallery of couturier Azzedine Alaïa: how a dress is conceived, cut and built.Design · haute couture craftsmanship
    AfternoonMusée d’Orsay. Manet, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh under a grand station roof.Art history · Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
    AfternoonNotre-Dame (exterior view only). Façade and rose window; no interior visit.Art history · Gothic · Literature · Hugo
    EveningAura show, Dôme des Invalides. An immersive light show in a historic dome, after a cafeteria dinner.
  3. Day 3

    Cité de la Mode & Champs-Élysées

    MorningCité de la Mode et du Design. A riverside fashion and design hub on the Seine, home of the French Fashion Institute.Economics · Design · the fashion industry, from creation to market
    AfternoonChamps-Élysées. Window-shop along the most famous avenue in the world, home to the great flagship stores.Economics · the luxury sector
    EveningEiffel Tower by night. After dinner at McDonald’s.
  4. Day 4

    Perfume & Fondation Louis Vuitton

    MorningFragonard Perfume Museum. Discover how perfume is made: the art, the craft and the chemistry of fragrance.Chemistry · the chemistry of scents
    AfternoonFondation Louis Vuitton. Frank Gehry’s glass “sails” in the Bois de Boulogne: contemporary art in daring architecture.Art history · contemporary art and architecture
    EveningDinner at Flam’s. Saint-Lazare, famous for its Alsatian flammekueche.
  5. Day 5

    Montmartre, Orangerie & cruise

    MorningMontmartre painting experience. Paint your own view of the Sacré-Cœur where Renoir and Van Gogh once worked, on the Place du Tertre.Art history · Impressionist technique: light, colour, painting outdoors
    AfternoonMusée de l’Orangerie. Monet’s Water Lilies wrapped around you in two oval rooms designed for them.Art history · late Impressionism and the road to abstraction
    EveningBateaux-Mouches cruise. After a restaurant or cafeteria dinner.
  6. Day 6

    Departure

    MorningDeparture. Breakfast, checkout and departure.

Packed lunch every day. Visits depend on season and availability, and we adapt the order to your group.

Add to your trip

A sample of what we can add or swap in, quoted on request.

French cooking classChocolate museum & workshopStation FOpéra de ParisMusée d’OrsayMusée de l’OrangerieParc des PrincesStade de FranceLa DéfenseA French guide for the whole stay

Included

  • 5 nights in partner accommodation, with breakfast, packed lunch and dinner
  • All visits and entrance fees in the programme
  • Paris transport passes
  • Teacher Pack

Not included

  • Travel to Paris
  • Supervision of students, by your school staff
  • Travel insurance

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