Fashion Shhhooows

Today we woke up at 7:15! We hopped the B line to the Louvre to dress for the Elie Saab fashion show. It was interesting and an experience. It kinda reminded me of show choir... people running around all hectic.. except without the feathers and vocal warm ups. Ohh.. and I wasn't running around, so that made it all the more fun. I saw Mr. Saab himself.. idk, looks like a regular dude to me. Julie got a picture, even though we were forbidden to have cameras. So anywho, I saw a lot of model boobs... one chick poked herself in the eye with a fake flower leaf attached to some blouse, I didn't laugh though. There are a group of girls from LA staying in Paris for two weeks doing work shoppy like things with PAA. Julie and I were paired with two high school girls (our "stations" were right next to each other) and wow, where these girls a hoot. They were defiantly sporting the 80s look. We were told to dress comfortable. Let me paint a mental picture (because we didn't get an actual one)... platform gold heels, black tights, and oversized tee shirt, a big ass belt around her true waist line and some crazy fluffed hair. Oh, and a cassette pendent on a chain. Plus they kinda reminded me of those girls from Laguna Beach. :D My model was from France, I forgot her name though. When she came she I had to remind her to change her underwear (into an itty bitty thong) and also to put her tights on... she was wearing miss matched socks. She had personality, seriously.

After Elie Sabb we decided to try to crash the Valentino show, to our surprise, we got in... with ease. Some guy was looking for the LA girls, when he found out they already went in, Peter asked if he could get any more people in. The guy said he'd try. We walked up to the gate and he said in a very authoritative voice, "These girls are with me" and we didn't have any troubles. Valentino was exciting.. high energy, stairs for the models to walk down... pretty clothes, ya know, the works.

In the afternoon we went to another part of town for another show. I hadn't heard of this designer; Gilles Rosier. I'd just woken up from my nap so I was a little crabby. But anywho, the show started and we had a pretty good view. Turns out, I liked this one the best. Through out all the shows I've seen since I've been hear, it's been a consistant thought that there is such a large amount of preperation that goes into a show, but it only last 15 minutes. Sometimes the pace is so fast, I feel like the clothes being presented aren't getting the proper recognition that they should. SO ANYWAY, that's why I liked this one. The pace was kicked down a few notches... the music was classy, so were the clothes and the models walked a particular path, so we could see them 2 or 3 times. : D

Later we had Greek food at "The Cave". The food was good and the guy working was cute.