So while my sister was visiting me, it was fashion week here in Paris for the fall lines of many designers. Of course it was hard to actually get in to the shows, so what we mostly did was hang out outside and watch the people walk in. The one show that we actually got chairs and sat outside was Chloe. It was awesome to see all of the people walking in, and look at everybody's outfits. Occasionally you would see some of the models walking in, but mostly it was just people who would dress up and hang out around there. Magazines and fashion bloggers were around too and they would take pictures of people walking around near the show. After we had been sitting there for awhile, some guy comes up to us with a huge bag full of American Apparel goodies. I thought he was just giving them to us to hold when he said "can you take these?" but no, he was actually giving them to us. He said he got them all and didn't have any use for them cause they were girl typed goodies, so he asked us to take them in exchange for a cigarette, which one of the people we were with had. It ended up being a bunch of different colored tights (the green ones came in very handy on St. Patricks day) and a couple rediculous looking sweaters.
We opened all of them in a cafe and ended up making friends with a couple Ukranian girls sitting next to us. We even gave them each a pair of the many tights we had just acquired. Turns out they know this Ukranian photographer who they introduced us to, and who had full footage of the Chloe, Yves Saint Laurent, and Chanel shows on his camera, all of which we got to see. The Chanel show was amazing, they filled Petit Palais with a bunch of ice and made it look like an ice cave, then covered the stage with a thin layer of ice. The models all wore their clothes with snow boots so they weren't freezing.
That was pretty much it on fashion week but it was quite the experience. One of those things that made me never wanna leave Paris.
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