They don't do things by halves in Paris do they?  Sample sales with guest lists and even the sales for the normal people are pretty awesome.  I've heard about the absolutely mint discounts Parisians get in their summe and winter sales yet I've never managed to catch the city of lights during the period of soldes.  It's a tad scary how they have a proper swish website dedicated to the sales; 'Soldes by Paris', complete with shopping circuit maps and a day planner where they even advise you where to nosh in between exhaustive trips around the shops carrying heaving bags.  The excitement over the beginning of the soldes which started two days again is evident here.  Sounds like madness but because I'm a bit of a masochist when it comes to fashion, I quite like the idea of becoming mentally obsessed with the bi-annual shopfest and torturing myself about whether I'll nab such-and-such in my size in time.  Sadly, when I'm counting my beans (I do mean beans in the literal sense of counting my cans of baked beans that I can survive on...), jetting off to Paris to cause myself injury over a dress or two is farfetched even for me. 

Instead, I've turned to the bitch-fight-free world of online and found that Gaspard Yurkievich now has a newish e-shop which yup - you've guessed it - has a 50% sale going on.  I'm quite taken with the idea of being overwhelmed by a gigantic bow so I'm loving these pieces, especially in the pale pink.  I once had an idea of constructing a dress that would have me engulfed by a gigantic bow but it never came to fruition because I fear the shape would swallow me up entirely.  The reality is though, I'd probably get more wear out of the sheer draped tanks so that is a rare sensible side of Susie coming out there.   

My first physical interaction though with Yurkievich was via his range of pretty hoisery.  Reason being because of my tight pursestrings of course and now the sale is on, I spy some loose yellow cotton over-knee socks and many tights with butterfly patterns that I will snap up sharpish... 
The shoes are a little off my spring agenda but in sale, sale, sale mode, they'll come in handy sometime soon again.