París-Londres, also known as "La Gran Boutique", was a chain of department stores that were briefly rebranded CLASS, then purchased by Grupo Cifra, owner of Suburbia, and rebranded as

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in the 1990s after Mexico started to permit imports from abroad on a large scale. The main store was located at 81, 16 de Septiembre Street in the

Historic Center of Mexico City The historic center of Mexico City (), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its fart ...

, and there were branches at

Perisur Perisur (also Centro Comercial Perisur) is a shopping mall located in the Coyoacán borough in southern Mexico City at the intersection of Insurgentes Avenue South and the Anillo Periférico, next to the UNAM main campus in Ciudad Universitaria ...

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and in

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Stores

Stores were located in: *

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, Ave. 16 de Septiembre #81, now a VIPS restaurant. *

Colonia del Valle Colonia Del Valle ( Spanish: ''Del Valle neighborhood'') is a Colonia in the Benito Juarez borough of Mexico City. Founded as an aristocratic recreational neighborhood during the Porfiriato era, it has witnessed the various transformations ...

area,

Avenida Insurgentes Avenida de los Insurgentes (), sometimes known simply as Insurgentes, is the longest Street name, avenue in Mexico City, with a length of on a north-south axis across the city. Insurgentes has its origins in what was during the early 20th centu ...

Sur 1235, site is now an office building * Condesa, Avenida Sonora 180, NE corner of Avenida Ámsterdam, site is now a mixed-use building *

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, Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional 1787 *

at Horacio 203, now an Innovasport superstore as did

Saks Fifth Avenue Saks Fifth Avenue (Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain founded in 1867 by Andrew Saks. The first store opened in the F Street and 7th Street shopping districts, F Street shopping distric ...

from 2010 to 2020. *

*Satélite:

External links

Commercial for París-Londres on YouTube

Print ad at ''Museo de la Marca''

References

{{Department stores in Mexico Defunct department stores of Mexico