I think I've been talking a little too much about the cultural and tourist sides of our trip, and want to give readers an idea of the intense academic component of this trip. The professors developed an assignment that paired fashion design students with fashion merchandisers to develop a collection based on market intelligence, fashion trends projected by Trend Union and inspiration from food found in French Boulangeries. These pictures show students choosing fabric for their project, working in teams in fabric stores at Marche St. 
Pierre in Paris, the stores are on the left, Tissus Reine (look closely at the cute dolls on the tables wearing dresses in the fabrics for sale) and Dreyfus, the 5-story warehouse of all sorts of fabrics for clothing and home interiors.
This is a picture of a display where they show curtain fabric as curtains and then as a cute bustier and skirt!
Because everything is interesting in Paris (!) a visit to this area for fabric also included a trip up the hill to Sacre Coeur! My camera's battery went dead, so I don't have any pictures to show you, sorry! If any of you who went on the trip have pictures, please send them to me and I'll post them!
Pierre in Paris, the stores are on the left, Tissus Reine (look closely at the cute dolls on the tables wearing dresses in the fabrics for sale) and Dreyfus, the 5-story warehouse of all sorts of fabrics for clothing and home interiors.This is a picture of a display where they show curtain fabric as curtains and then as a cute bustier and skirt!
Because everything is interesting in Paris (!) a visit to this area for fabric also included a trip up the hill to Sacre Coeur! My camera's battery went dead, so I don't have any pictures to show you, sorry! If any of you who went on the trip have pictures, please send them to me and I'll post them!
Love the picture of the fabric shop! Warm walls, vintage-style carpet - so unlike many American fabric shops. And the clothing on the mannequins! So lovely. Thanks for sharing your photos.
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