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Paris shops celebrated la rentrée — the normal back-to-school season — with per week filled with events. La Samaritaine launched its “Paris en mode Arty” program, with a classy coctail at the shop’s ultra-modern Rivoli location. Vibrant Pop Art decorated the floors with installations from young artists. A graduate of Hermès crafts academy, Marion Flament took over the street-level windows with a vivid sunburst glass sculpture, while Ella Batts uses body parts blown out of proportion to create an enormous pastel wall. An interior walkway was painted by Cecilia Granara in sunny motifs inspired by Italian and Moroccan floor tiles. One other stairwell is dominated by the intense pink tapestries of Turkish artist Désiré Moheb-Zandi. Bringing in art and merging it with commerce is...