Christian Lacroix designs Aéroports de Paris Christmas catalogue

Gavin Lipsith

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The airports group adds a touch of French style to its Christmas catalogue with the help of one of the country’s top fashion designers

French airports operator Aéroports de Paris has called on fashion designer Christian Lacroix to create the cover of its first Christmas shopping catalogue. Lacroix signed the editorial in the catalogue, 300,000 of which will be distributed to passengers at Paris Charles de Gaulle and Paris Orly airports from December 7.

The designer also selected three illustrators for the inner pages of the catalogue. Sophie Griotto, Elene Usdin and Gabor Gozon present the Christmas collection of Aéroports de Paris boutiques through a series of portraits of today's "Parisian shopper" according to their shopping preferences.

The catalogue features 63 products available exclusively at Paris Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, ranging from the Suze bottle designed by Gaspard Yurkevitch priced at €7.80 ($11.40) to the Zenith Defy Xtreme watch priced at €20,880 ($30,530).

Lacroix wrote in his editorial: "The airport corresponds to the first image of a country. It is its business card. I like the idea of welcoming, entertaining and making people feel at ease so that they can go smoothly, humanly from one world to another."