France-tastic

Forget anything I have previously said about favourite stores, now I have a real one, in which I will probably never be able to afford a hanky, but that actaully made me feel sick with desire. The beautiful, beautiful clothes made me wish I was a model, not to be beautiful, but just to get the chance to wear those beautiful things. The store is Le Bon Marché, a department store quite near my house, and very upmarket. At least at Galeries Lafayette, they sell the designer gear, but also affordable stuff, like Grace Bros (sorry, Myer) or DJ's, but at Le Bon Marché (which ironically means the "good buy" or the "bargain") I didn't see I single tag I didn't recognise, and I'm not talking about K-Mart here. Christian Lacroix, Chanel, Pucci, Cacharel, Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Chloé, Alaia, the list goes on. Absolutely amazing. I know you can buy designer stuff in lots of places, but here, you (meaning me!) can walk around and touch the clothes and pick them up, and the store is beautiful and calm, and it was just a dream! The feel of the fabrics, the colours, the textures, the shapes, just amazing. I really need to start saving my money so that I can own one of those pieces.

Anyway, back to reality...

The real Bon Marché that I got was a couple of tickets to snowy Sweden! It will hopefully be snowy by departure time at least! Thanks to the genius of Ryan Air, two return tickets from Paris to Stockholm, a mere €160! That is about what a train to the other side of France would cost per person!! So, very happy about that. On the way there, the tickets were only €2.79! But that was without the €20 or so in taxes that they tack on, but still!

So lots of bon marché action! Yay!

# posted by Jenny @ 17:52