{"id":1383,"date":"2012-10-17T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:05:35","slug":"le-window-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Le Window Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the French invented the department store, I dragged the family to Galerie Lafayette on Boulevard Haussmann (established 1912) for a history lesson. It was pouring with rain, and it was dark when we approached.\u00a0 Everyone was grumpy and no one was sure why we were going there. For me, the shop is associated with my father, who bought me a leather jacket from GLwhen I was about 20, after he came to Paris for a couple of days. I never really liked the jacket but that was not the point.\u00a0 It was French.\u00a0 I also wanted to see Walter Benjamin\u2019s les passages<\/em>, the old arcades that predate the Haussmann makeover of Paris, but that did not eventuate.\u00a0 Perhaps tomorrow, tomorrow …<\/p>\n

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The ground floor of Galerie Lafayette is a vast acreage of designer shoes.\u00a0 Above it is makeup, and parfum, and clothes and toys and the dome.\u00a0 Up and up and on and on it goes, in a dizzying arc of desire.\u00a0We had had enough after five minutes.\u00a0 Despite our stop-over at a very pleasant Chineses restaurant for dinner, Mei was discombobulated.\u00a0 Unfortunately she was led then astray by Xavier and ended up at the Sylvania section of the shop and had to be forcibly removed.<\/p>\n

\"Outfit<\/p>\n

Not a good end to le shopping.<\/p>\n

I have seen some very good shop windows in the Maris and the 2nd<\/sup> and the 5th<\/sup>.\u00a0 I have desired a 300 Euro leather handbag.\u00a0 I have lusted after a surreal necklace.<\/p>\n

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And a hand-embroidered bag that reminded me of the plastic one I brought from England to Australia, and lost on the plane.\u00a0 Is that true?\u00a0 Who knows, but it was round with a zip, llike this:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not a book it is an embroidered bag by Olympia Le Tan.<\/p>\n

DIVORZIO ALL' ITALIANA<\/pre>\n
Embroidered canvas round clutch, leather structure and Liberty print lining.<\/pre>\n
Colour: Grey<\/pre>\n
LENGTH : 16 cm HEIGHT : 16 cm WIDTH : 4.5 cm<\/pre>\n
\u20ac625.00<\/pre>\n
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Or for the more literary-minded; a clutch!<\/p>\n
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VILE BODIES<\/p>\n
Embroidered canvas book-clutch, with brass structure and Liberty print lining.<\/pre>\n
Numbered edition of 16<\/pre>\n
Colour: Off white<\/pre>\n
LENGTH : 14 cm HEIGHT : 20 cm WIDTH : 3.5 cm<\/pre>\n
\u20ac1,140.00<\/pre>\n
You can see more of these HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n
For now, Adieu.<\/p>\n
Josie.<\/p>\n
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