So, I finally made it to Paris last weekend, to see the Vionnet exhibition http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/fra...ellement-447/madeleine-vionnet-puriste-de-la/ (click on "Diapanorama" for more pics).
It was absolutely amazing, I must say! Beautiful presentation, and so much to see! Such beautiful dresses, and so cleverly made! My mom and I often stopped to try and figure out how they had been cut, draped etc. into shape. My mom is a very good hobby seamstress, and her interest certainly was piqued! Besides that - some of those dresses looked so modern, and when she didn't use black or white, she used wonderful colors - which is what I like :bouncy: . The most daring? An evening dress made of red and purple velvet. Ah, that's for me!
The only thing that wasn't quite so nice - they had run out of exhibition catalogs at the shop. Not that they cared - the employee just said, "we get new ones in on Monday" - no apology, nothing. I've never experienced anything like that before... after all, it wasn't even the last day of the exhibtion. Well, I'll order it from Amazon then. And the postage will probably cost a fortune :teeth: .
My mom hadn't really heard of Madeleine Vionnet before, but I had known she'd surely like this exhibition too. And since the opening of the new TGV route via Strasbourg, and since she gets a pensioners discount, she needs no excuse for going to Paris (don't ask me how many times she's been last year...). Well, it is only four and half hours, which is pretty cool. So we spent Saturday afternoon shopping, and went to the theater in the evening (stunning but true - Paris is a theater lover's heaven!). Sunday we went to the Vionnet exhibition first, then went on to see the Playmobil exhibition at the same museum (let's just say, that exhibition space was a total madhouse...!). After that there was time left for a nice late lunch, a trip out to La Défense (we even went up on the big arch) and a visit to the Jacquemart André Museum. It's been two long days, but it certainly was great. Below is a rather bad mobile phone pic that I took at La Défence, in front of La Grande Arche. If you look closely, you can just see the Arc de Triomphe in the distance - the "new" arch (which in fact is an office building) was built in a direct line to it.
Karin
It was absolutely amazing, I must say! Beautiful presentation, and so much to see! Such beautiful dresses, and so cleverly made! My mom and I often stopped to try and figure out how they had been cut, draped etc. into shape. My mom is a very good hobby seamstress, and her interest certainly was piqued! Besides that - some of those dresses looked so modern, and when she didn't use black or white, she used wonderful colors - which is what I like :bouncy: . The most daring? An evening dress made of red and purple velvet. Ah, that's for me!
The only thing that wasn't quite so nice - they had run out of exhibition catalogs at the shop. Not that they cared - the employee just said, "we get new ones in on Monday" - no apology, nothing. I've never experienced anything like that before... after all, it wasn't even the last day of the exhibtion. Well, I'll order it from Amazon then. And the postage will probably cost a fortune :teeth: .
My mom hadn't really heard of Madeleine Vionnet before, but I had known she'd surely like this exhibition too. And since the opening of the new TGV route via Strasbourg, and since she gets a pensioners discount, she needs no excuse for going to Paris (don't ask me how many times she's been last year...). Well, it is only four and half hours, which is pretty cool. So we spent Saturday afternoon shopping, and went to the theater in the evening (stunning but true - Paris is a theater lover's heaven!). Sunday we went to the Vionnet exhibition first, then went on to see the Playmobil exhibition at the same museum (let's just say, that exhibition space was a total madhouse...!). After that there was time left for a nice late lunch, a trip out to La Défense (we even went up on the big arch) and a visit to the Jacquemart André Museum. It's been two long days, but it certainly was great. Below is a rather bad mobile phone pic that I took at La Défence, in front of La Grande Arche. If you look closely, you can just see the Arc de Triomphe in the distance - the "new" arch (which in fact is an office building) was built in a direct line to it.
Karin
le sigh!
