Today was my first day at a Fashion Week event, BUT HAVE NO FEAR, because Paris Fashion Week ends next Wednesday. Still plenty of time!! My greatest sigh of relief today is 'THANK GOD I brought my heels with me!' It was amazing. I'd managed to find a list of events and their venues (they happen every hour in different places around Paris centre), so turned up bright and early (at 11am!) for the Issey Miyake fashion show at the Palais de Tokyo (16th Arrondissement). It started off with a lot of hanging around - not sure what to do or what I'd get to see, but then photographers and journalists started people aside - either people going to the show or other photographers - for their pictures. It was pretty amazing (despite not 'bumping into' Orlando Bloom who was at the Balenciaga show yesterday)! I had my first experience of being 'papped' too - pulled aside, posed by a pillar, given cards for their blogs and magazines... Then the people started coming out again - more photos, and SO MANY Louboutins! I felt really left-out, especially as my Louboutins would have come very high in ranking!!! Then people started drifting away, so I pulled out my map (folded so It's really small and discreet!) and headed to the next venue (Pont Alexandre III - 8th Arr) in my very high heels alongside the River Seine! I caught up with a girl I'd seen at the first show - another photographer - who'd sensible tied her GORGEOUS heeled-boots like skates round her bag and had slipped into some more comfortable-looking Converses. The people at the Gaspard Yurkievich show were my favourite, as they were much more friendly! It was right next to the entrance of Pont Alexandre III, so a beautiful setting. More photos of me and my outfit and other people's, and then everyone gathering round the models exiting from backstage. This one model went into a small grassy area nearby and put on an absolutely wonderful show for the photographers! I tagged along so have my own exclusive pictures! It was so much fun, and I swear most of the people spoke English, so it was so much more friendly.
The third show (and final for me today) was none other than the Christian Dior show, held at Jardin des Tuileries (1st Arr). SO many people, SO many tourists. I was walking through the Tuileries, and this photographer asked me to stand and look at the camera, and then suddenly more photographers were grabbing the opportunity - it was actually AHHMAZING. A bit scary and nerve-racking (I'm paranoid about my photos) but it can't have been that bad! More people had turned up to this show, and some in outrageous outfits- sporting the 'Lady Gaga' look with blue eyebrows (yes, BLUE), plastic hats with eyes on, and one lady with a huge lace veil over her head. I spotted much more designer labels and shoes - Prada, Louis Vuitton, Louboutin, Chanel... It was heartbreaking to be the 'wrong' side of the barriers!! Suddenly there was a huge surge of excitement and people started piling into the centre of the crowd like a huge rugby scrum, with the 'bubble' of photographers, mics and cameras flashing in all directions slowly moving to the entrance, and people calling 'KATE!'. I only got a brief glimpse, and OMG, it was Kate Moss. I have a photo of the back of Kate Moss!! Unfortunately no sign of Karl Lagerfeld or Anna Wintour, but it was still exciting! It then started raining and my camera died so I decided to call it a day (and needed to come back to reality to get the girls from school).
I was walking towards the metro when I saw 'WH SMITHS', so just HAD to take a picture (and go inside) to my favourite (and most useful) English stationary and book store. :)
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