The exhibition itself literally encouraged you to wander and observe. It started in a white room with light projections all around and then you go through a giant wardrobe, whilst secretly reliving your childhood dream and hoping Narnia is on the other side. Then you wander along dark corridors with plastic horse heads in glass cabinets displays, sticking their tongues out whilst surrounded by gorgeous Hermès bags. You encounter solitary lamposts, a mix of dark silhouettes and light accents causing you to question the way you see and perceive even everyday objects.

The whole way round the exhibition offers your mind the chance to explore and form its own paths of thought of what you are seeing, and where it is taking you, all whilst giving an insight into the mind of Hermès, their strong heritage and history and the very essence of the maison. 

You round a corner and encouter a brasserie/bar (which I think should have served actual drinks), but its not just a "bar". It showcases jewellery so that they look like captured and preserved specimens in scientific experiments. It utilises tiny digital screens within ordinary, everyday objects such as the paint palette to really give the scene another dimension and a kind of 'out-of-this-world' feeling whilst being completely rooted in an 'everyday' surrouding. 

You leave the brasserie and round the corner and find you've wandered into downtown Manhattan, and all the walls have been emblazoned with bright graffiti and colour, with a real raw and undone edge, before following the next corner and finding yourself in an Alice in Wonderland enchanted, victorian/edwardian living room where the tea set lifts itself off the table and the chandelier makes you thirsty. 

I kind of want to describe the whole exhibition as bonkers but brilliant. It made use of modern digital technology to really encapsulate your mind and senses and to transport you a own little journey through not only your own mind but the mind of Hermès, through different places and periods, be they artistic, fashion, everyday life. Hermès has always retained a strong sense of its heritage and roots, and a particular 'savoir-faire' in terms of the quality of its products and I think this was a really great opportunity to not only see this displayed up close but to also have a better insight in to the more abstract side of how Hermès thinks and the notions of really exploring, wandering and discovering. 

I would thoroughly have recommended you check this exhibition out but since it has already finished I hope that this post can give you some insight or inspire some of your own thinking and i'll be looking out for any other Hermès popups in the near future. 

​http://lesailes.hermes.com/fr/fr/dansloeilduflaneur 

So this week was Paris Fashion Week. This was hugely exciting for me because I have never had the chance to be in a city when fashion week is happening, let alone Paris which hosts all my favourite french fashion houses. 

I've been working with the fashion society  at Sciences Po and I created a short teaser video to promote fashion week before it got started:

I have spent the week fan-girling outside some of the biggest shows, trying to snap a few pictures of my favourite bloggers/celebrity attendees/industry legends. At times I felt like a complete idiot but I absolutely love the madness of the whole thing and it has been an amazing experience to be able to be so close to it all. I would obviously love to be able to attend and see the shows for myself but for now just being outside, seeing people entering and exciting, hearing the music, etc. will have to do.

Check out my different blog posts about the shows I "attended" by clicking below:

I also found this cool new feature I can add to my blog so here is my summary of Paris Fashion week in numbers: 

I was a little over excited at the selfie that I basically didn't take any other photos of any of the gorgeous 'street style' that was happening. Elena took these photos below and it just gives you an idea of the stunning clothing people were wearing. 

Below is a picture of backstage at Valentino and front of the venue so you can appreciate the crazy mass of people and also glimpse the behind the scenes that goes into a show. The show music was stunning and when I could hear it I thought it reminded me of some kind of journey, or film soundtrack. The tribal, explorational theme to the collection fitted this perfectly although I am intrigued what people will make of it because Kylie Jenner was given a lot of grief for the time she braided her hair and its "cultural appropriation", and all the models in Valentino had braided hair.

P.S. The Tuileries are beautiful at the moment because all the trees are different shades of Autumn. Just watch out for conkers falling if you're walking under them!