J'<3 Tokyo

Today, after class, I made my way over to the Sevres-Babylone métro stop to see the
❤Tokyo exhibit at Le Bon Marché.

Actually, I wasn't planning on visiting the top floor for the exhibit, but once I got inside and saw the beautiful banners and colorful red patterened cloths hanging everywhere, I decided to make a quick stop. The exhibit itself is pretty cool: The ❤Tokyo theme runs through the store, and the actual exhibit features photographs and multimedia of Tokyo and its people. There's also a little sushi bar. When I got upstairs, a few people were sitting on stools and watching the video presentation in awe. I wandered through the gallery until I noticed the shopping portion directly across the floor, at which point I hightailed it.

A small area was set aside from the housegoods that usually occupy the space. There were clothes, jewelry, stickers, pens, and luxury grocery store items all over the place, and Parisian women were swarming with grabby hands. I fell in love with the teeny embossed stickers (I was going to buy one to put on my phone, but I changed my mind when I found out it was 10 euro) and the AHKAHA necklaces-- they're usually not available outside Japan. I was examining the teeny (really: each charm was so small, it would practically disappear around your neck) diamond-covered hearts, feathers, and English words ("Love"), starting to covet them, until I found out each necklace was around 600 euro.

I WANT ONE.

I also spent some time around the Shu Uemura stand (lurve) and poked my way through the grocery store bit (everything had beautiful packaging and graphics). There was more stuff on the basement level of the store: everything was stationary-oriented, like tape dispensers the size of my thumb or sets of colored pencils that fit into a lipstick tube. I guess everything cool from Japan is in miniature.

I did end up buying a normal-sized non-Tokyo oriented gold bracelet with a porcelain violet and a notebook for my art history class with the words: "No touch, No smoke: Don't touch my body, smoking is bad for the health."

When I got home, I organized my academic life into three folder-type things that I found at the Monoprix. I can fit papers and a notebook inside each one. I copied my notes from random scraps over the past few days into their respective notebooks, and watched "the Office."

I got Indian takeout again (too lazy to cook), and the nice man at the restaurant asked if I was English. Non but merci anyways!

Tomorrow I have a full day of class (Versailles lit and contemporary art history), and then we're watching the France v. Scotland football match in a bar somewhere.