Madeleine Vionnet, My New Idol.

Hooray for beautiful, sunny fall days in Paris!! Today was another delight with clear blue skys and a bright sun, shining its rays down on la tour!

Aujourd'hui, after church, and lunch of a PB&J on my pumpkin bread (YUM) I went to la musee de l'art decoratif. And it could very well be the coolest museum I have seen yet in Paris! I went because I saw a publicite for the Madeleine Vionnet exhibit, which was GORGEOUS - but I ended up being blown away by the whole museum!

It is connected to the La Louvre, but is its own museum, which has a bunch of cool, decorative things like fashion, furniture, and toys! I am quite obsessed with musuems! There are so many wonderful ones in Paris, and I get into them all for free - so why try to get to them all?

Madeleine Vionnet is important to the fashion world for many reasons - but she is famous for inventing the bias cut, using crepe like it was never used before, and making the most exquisite evening gowns of the 1930s. So, you can only imagine how beautiful the exhibit was! A gigantic, black room, where all the dresses were dramatically displayed on mirror-backed platforms, so you could see the dresses from all angles. Then, they had photos of the dresses on the model from the original shoots. There are not even words! I was in evening gown heaven. I wish I had places to go that I needed gorgeous, crepe, evening gowns for! And matching gloves, and handbags. I have always loved dressing up. I often think I should have lived in the 1950s when you had to put on a dress, gloves, and a hat just to go to the grocery store. Oh, those were the days for fashion.

So, after I saw the amazing exhibit - I continued to the furniture by decades rooms, which were so cool. The rooms showed the cool furniture designs from the 40s - 2000s. The 60-70s room was the coolest. They had this awesome, cool-chair display in the middle, and then a little room on the side where you could sit in some of the chairs and watch a 70s movie, while you enjoyed the giant windows with views of the Tour and Tuilieries, and Sacre Couer. Incroyable! It was such a wonderful surprise - to wonder into a museum not knowing what to expect, and see such incredibly cool things!

I also discovered the Carosuel de Louvre today, which is the boutiques and restuarants under the Louvre! When I forced myself to head home to get my homework done, I stopped for a delicious ham and cheese crepe, it had been awhile and the mec a fait un bon crepe pour moi! I ate it sitting my the fountains at hotel de ville, looking out across the Pont Neuf onto Notre Dame....loving Paris, as usual.

I also got to Skype with my adorable nephew, Oliver - currently the cutest baby boy in the world, with a smile that melts your heart! All in all - another wonderful, Parisienne day!