Some scene-setting here: there were Carre Club backdrops here and there for folks to take pics, colour walls where you could suggest names for colours used by H, cube lanterns made from pictures of scarves, and I wore my pinky SOTD which I usually only wear in Octbecause of the ribbon design.
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The duo creating the Pivoine scarf for next season. Octave is decorating a skateboard and Theo is drawing peonies on card for souvenirs. He drew a lovely one for me when I asked him for a design which I could embroider. Please admire the young lass next to Theo. Her halter top is Pytheus and her skirt is Ex Libris. Just two 90 carres!
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And they invited a local embroidery artist Izziyana to demonstrate enhancing scarves with silkwork. She embroidered a Malay love song on the yellow strips of Panoplie Equestre, and some flowers too. I flipped to the back and the stitchwork was pretty rough, possibly because she was constantly interrupted.
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The queue to be sketched by Saw Keng was neverending. He looked quite apprehensive every time he peeked behind him to check how long it stretched!
Gianpaolo Pagni used rubber stamps and coloured inks to create little souvenir cards which were also very popular.
Alice Shirley had just arrived when I visited her atelier table. The crowd was thin then, so I had her all to myself for like 15 mins. She was working on a big cat scarf and totally sold me on it when she described her vision of the final product.
I missed getting a photo of Ugo Gattoni. He was on his break but left a cute video Mino running. I kept spotting him later but I'd be in the queue for something else. (Ugo was swooping around taking video of his fellow artists) Managed to get his autograph on the run but no pic
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oh wow! What fun!!!! No wonder you spent 6 hours there! I would have too!
(I want a discount card!), Theo's beautiful flower for me to do embroidery, and a temp tattoo declaring Un Carre ou Rien!
. Not the limited ed bandana - it didn't appeal to me. All the embroidered scarves were already snapped up, possibly yesterday evening at the VIP event, but that elusive C'est Le Fete was not among them. So I went home with two dipdyes by major female designer Annie Faivre: Circus 70 and Tarot 90, plus I finally found the Acte III with the malachite clouds 
Makes me grin every time I use that scarf.
it's a collar.... from the pet store... Repurposing is my middle name. The kitties have cuter collars but I don't have a pencil neck 
