What's new on the Champs?

Dior is obviously working on some remodeling of its flagship on Avenue Montaigne (see previous posts here). They have since about a month ago opened a new big shop on the Champs-Elysées. An artificial facade, trompe l’oeil, supposed to imitate the facade on Avenue Montaigne, has been added. It’s somehow “folding”. (If you wonder... the “real” façade behind this “folding” one is still there – and is actually quite “ordinary”.)

I made a quick visit, have seldom been so welcomed (“bonjour monsieur” tens of times), but didn’t buy anything.    

I then walked down the Champs-Elysées, noticed that there are not any broken windows anymore, that “Fouquet’s” is again open, that there are the usual long waiting lines to get into the Louis Vuitton building…

…  that the new “Apple” and “Galeries Lafayette” installations are there (see previous posts here and here)…

… that the beautilful “Guerlain” shop is there… but what will happen to the former Citroën building, abandoned for more than a year? (See previous posts here and here.)…

… that one of what I referred to as “rotating showers” (see previous post) is already out of water, that the “pergola”, abandoned for years, has disappeared (What happened to it? just scrap? to be mounted elsewhere…?) and that the pavements still need to be repaired (see previous post).

It’s still probably the "world’s most beautiful avenue", but…