Italian Vintage Expert Angela Eupani prized at the Lyon Vintage Show

MARCHE' DE LA MODE VINTAGE -
LYON (FRANCE) REPORT 1st part
















Folks, that has been terrific! The Vintage Day in Lyon (see previous post) on Saturday May 17 has been a brilliant experience.
Here are the records:
20.000 (yes! Twenty thousands visitors, real score)
320 Indoor and outdoor French and international exhibitors in a fresh -sunny and slightly drizzly- Spring day.
P5 was the best pavillion, the hall dedicated to international exhibitors
5 halls (from P1 to P5) were completely full of Vintage stuff among with clothing, accessories, costume jewelry, period purses, great shoes, modernist furniture (especially dated 50's, 60's, 70's)
Mr. Didier Ludot has been the testimonial of the biggest Vintage show of France.
3 French exhibitors have been prized by Mr. Ludot as top selection stands in their speciality
1 Italian, Mrs. Angela Eupani of Sculture da Indossare (Sculptures to Wear) has been prized as top selection and best international stand by Mr. Ludot who personally selected around 5 vintage purses from period accessories' specialist Angela.
Consequently, as part of a brilliant animation, Mr. Ludot and his team personally visited every stand and introduced by michrophone to the visitors the 4 prized exhibitors and the peculiarity and value of their favorite items.
That has been a real fan when Didier together with the judging commission (M.me Cécile, M. Laurent and others) attached a heart-shaped baloon in each prized stands in order to point them out and signalize them to the public invited to look and hunt for the hearts to discover and visit the most qualified booths of the Lyon Vintage hit parade!
Here above you'll see one of the five period purses exhibited in the stand Sculptures to Wear (Sculture da Indossare - Vicenza - Italy) choosen by Mr. Didier Ludot (here below photographed during the Vintage Day).

He has been particularly impressed by the unusual material mix of this no-name Italian purse dated 1950 in green interwoven rafia and patent leather with metal cirle handle usable as fastening too. Other purses from Angela's stand he especially appreciated were: the bakelite and lucite purses dated 40's and 50's, a colour-block US kelly handbag from the Sixities -now part of his personal collection-, another Italian raffia purse with key-shaped fastening and bamboo handle, a pair of black silk shoes with golden hills and see-trough rectangular hole...
In the evening, after the closing and only for the members of the University of Fashion (Modalyon) and for certain higly delayed in wrapping and packaging exhibitors, at Pavillion P5 a big party with live music and tons of French food&wine has been organized. No need to tell "I was promptly there!"

I must add that even the French press has been very interested in this Italian exhibitor (see here below entire article on Lyon Plus, 16.05.2008 at page 6, signed by fashion editor Julia Beaumet).

The show has presented multiple "intermezzo" programs as for instance some Vintage catwalk shows performed by the students of Modalyon Fashion University, organizer of the annual Vintage venue and the "look hunting" to find the best vintage look among an enthusiastic public.
To me the whole day has been pure adrenaline! I could not stand at the long queues to visit each single small booth, that was really crowded as a sort of Morocco souk full at the same time of junk and of great breath-taking Vintage beauties. Wow, I was sik of a growing Vintage fever...
Want definitely to be there next year too!!!
A 2nd part of the Vintage Day in Lyon report will soon follow.

All other photos source: Magazine Amica (Deutschland)