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Accompanying persons
Accompanying person program
From now on, Accompanying Person Program is fully booked, new registrations are no more available.
- Spouses and other visitors are welcome at the Paris meeting. A hospitality room for accompanying persons will be open at the Conference site from 8:00 am to 11:00 am Monday through Friday.
- In addition to the social events, the opening ceremony, and the award ceremony, the Accompanying Persons Program will include three afternoons of activities described below.
- Please note that registration gives automatically access to the following three activities:
Monday June 30, 2008: French Cuisine Course
- Location: Cuisines of Hotel Concorde Lafayette (4th floor of Palais des Congrès)
- The Course will be organized into two sessions:
- 10 groups of 10 persons from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
- 10 groups of 10 persons from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
- Course includes three dishes: Cold dish, Warm dish, Pastries
Tuesday July 1, 2008: Musée de la Mode et du Textile - Museum of Textiles & Fashion
- From 2:00pm to 5:00pm
- One English speaking guide for each group of 25 persons
- Including visit of the temporary exhibition "Valentino. Thémes et Variations"
- The museum’s collections now contain some 16,000 costumes, 35,000 fashion accessories and 30,000 pieces of textile. A total of over 81,000 works which trace the history of costume from the Regency period to the present day and innovations in textiles since the 7th century. These collections are regularly enriched by generous gifts made by private donors, designers or manufacturers. They rival with the largest collections in the world, the Musée Galliera, Paris, the Musée des Tissus, Lyon, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Apart from its historical pieces, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile also has collections of the work of great designers such as Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Christian Dior in the fashion field, and for textiles, Raoul Dufy, Sonia Delaunay or the embroiderer Rébé, to name just a few. The visit of the museum includes the visit of the temporary Valentino exhibition.
© Les Arts Décoratifs Valentino, haute-couture
Photo : Luc Boegly AH 2007-2008 © Jean Tholance
Thursday July 3, 2008: Half Day Paris' Hidden Passages
- From 2:00pm to 5:00pm
- One English speaking guide for each group of 25 persons
- You will start this tour with the former royal palace, Palais Royal. Here you will discover one of Paris' hidden treasures, the Palais Royal Gardens. Today the gardens also feature restaurants, art galleries and specialist shops along the arcades, which maintain a strong literary history. Continue to Les Galeries (19th century shopping arcades). At the time of their construction, the Galeries represented a new traffic free area for commerce, workshops and apartments. They fell into disuse, but were dramatically renovated in the 1970s and now house an eclectic mixture of small shops selling anything from designer jewelry to rare books. They have high vaulted roofs of iron and glass. One of the most charming is the Galerie Vivienne with its mosaic floor.
Palais royal, Photo: Jastrow. Galerie Vivienne, Photo: Roi Boshi
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