Lanvin September Windows (Paris, France) & Awards

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful comments in my last post. I was going to blog sooner, but I'm one of those people who's still desperately clinging on to summer and since we're lucky enough to still have temperatures of 29°C (or 85°F) in Paris, I've been doing my best to spend my time outside. So if I haven't gotten back to your blog yet, I'll be doing so asap. The one good thing about the upcoming autumn season is that Lanvin have once again changed their windows, and since taking photos of these involves me being outside, I was happy enough to take some nice snappy snaps.

The current theme involves travel - as you know, a subject very close to my heart - and... cats. I'm not sure how the two relate, but it does make for some fairly cute displays.

Lanvin Homme

The two main windows. Mannequins playing with kittens...

Kitties fighting over a plastic mouse... and the male dummies are terrified... go figure.

I guess this is how men pack?

Lanvin Femme

The very glamorous main window shown from two angles. Kitties playing with Lanvin jewelry... so lucky.

This window was really difficult to capture - again shown from two angles.

Kitty eyeing the bird cage...

Oh, to be a cat in a Lanvin window...

For images of previous and equally amazing Lanvin windows, just click here.

I tend to group my Lanvin window posts with awards - I guess because they're the posts where I don't write as much, so I don't feel guilty about bombarding them with more random babble. I'm very behind on a lot of these, so apologies it took so long. If for some reason you awarded/tagged me and it's not mentioned here, let me know again via comments or email - it's not personal! I'm just very disorganized when it comes to picking these up. The one tag I will leave out, because I've decided to post it seperately is the one given to me by MissLikey, so if you're reading this... don't worry, I haven't forgotten about it.

First up, I received the Kreativ blogger award from Call Me Dorothy...


and the following award from the lovely bloggers The Sydney Girl, Trishikoh and FabBlab.

I'm supposed to list 10 random facts about me and I was also tagged by Oh So Hip It Hurts to do the same, but I'm going to cheat and refer you to this post where I already listed 10 things. No worries though, I'm still going to be doing a tag for another award towards the end. Because a few of you have received this award and done the tag already, I'd like to pass this on to everyone who's reading this and hasn't gotten this yet.

Then I got this 'Circle of Friends' award from one of my favorite blogs The Anthology:

I'd like to pass this on to Cocktail of Fashion, Fashion Titbits, It's a Beautiful Life, Janetteria and Kirafashion.

Next up, I got the Style Inspiration award from the wonderful Fashion Titbits...

... and this Splash award from the fabulous Take Me Out To The Runway:

I'm giving both these awards to the following lovely ladies: All Things NYC, Fashion Cappuccino, Lenorenevermore, Ash Fox at Tit Tees and Wrecked Stellar.

Finally the very talented Anya at Couture Millinery Atelier (who's probably not going to read this, because the lucky lady is currently completing an apprenticeship with the legendary Stephen Jones) created her own Divine award which comes with a tag:

I'm supposed to list 5 guilty pleasures in my life, so here we go:

• I'm a shoe girl. Mainly flats or very high heels (I don't like anything in between). I go through phases where I'm obsessed with cardigans, bags, jewelry or jackets, but I always love shoes. And they better love me back, considering I just spent a crapload of money getting a few of them resoled.

• I already mentioned I have a sweet tooth and since moving to France I've become a bit of a macaron addict. My next move will be attempting to make these myself...

One of my newly resoled Lanvins and a pair of current season Nicholas Kirkwood heels in Printemps (top row). A selection of yummy macarons at Pierre Hermé yesterday. I walked out with 12...

• I like indulging in long showers using my favorite bath and shampoo products from Korres or Molton Brown, then lather myself up in the matching body lotion.

• There's nothing better than taking a long leisurely walk... in any city (or country). It's the best way to get to know a place. And I like telling myself I'm losing those macarons calories while doing so.

Something you can only discover while walking... the pretty garden belonging to Musée Carnavalet in Paris' Marais area.

• Like most people out there, I love my TV series. I'm way behind on magazines, but very up-to-date on my favorite shows, whether it's your typical chick fare (Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty etc.) or crime/sci-fi programmes (anything from Bones to Heroes... although the latter is really slipping). Even got the husband addicted to Project Runway...
  

Another guilty pleasure is reading these fantastic blogs, which I'd like to pass this award on to: Dream Sequins, The Anthology, Ela at Extra Dressing on the Side, Carlotta at My Way and Style With Benefits.

If you're still with me... thanks for reading! And of course a big thank you to everyone who has given me these awards... it really means a lot coming from such incredible bloggers. I'll be heading to London tomorrow, so my next post will be from the British capital, where I'll hopefully be able to feature some interesting events going on.