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Capitales-Modes-Galeries-Lafayette-Goude >> Bon-jor folks.  I now vaguely know what I read like in French with some of my blog posts up on Galeries Lafayette' La Mode C'est Vous website.  I think I sound more sensible.  I mean…. how does one translate words like 'Whazz', 'Deets' and 'Doi' into French?  Oh right, they're not words… that would be the problem…

I've become a lot more competition/giveaway friendly this year.  I'm not about to turn into the Wheel of Fortune just yet with prize giving but at the very least, I'm not being so bah-humbug about the chances of winning stuff (yes, I am still in fact embittered from not having won a single thing as a child… why, god why?)

Zee famous department store is having a gigantic fashion show on September 15th with a ginormous 700 looks walking on a catwalk outside near l‚ÄôOpera Garnier and Boulevard Haussmann.  The Biggest Fashion Show in the World (yes, they can claim that…) will take place across France with 5,000 street cast models.  How does it work?  Well, I can't say it's not convuluted and slightly limiting but hey-ho it's two days in Pareeeeeeee staying at a cute hotel.  

Whaddya do?  

  • Choose your city's 'look' - New York preppy, Milano glam or London hipster.
  • I'm not even going to pretend that the names are not anything less than eyebrow-raising.  
  • Take a pic of yourself that represents that 'look' and add in the name of your picture on the registration form, #SB (Style Bubble), #MR (Man Repeller) #FF (Fashion Fruit) denoting the corresponding city's blogger.  
  • Upload the pic here on the form.
  • Do that internet thing of getting people to LIKE, love or ‚ô• you and do the same to others (well, if you want…) 

Whaddya get?

  • You…. GET TO HIT THE RUNWAY!!!  
  • More importantly you get a round trip ticket to Paris (from Milan, New York or London) and two nights at a lovely hotel… 

But?  

As the brackets denotes, this competition is basically ONLY open to those that can depart from Milan, New York or London.  Harsh but T's and C's are the norm for competitions.    

On Monday August 29th, apparently I get to choose the winner who comes with me to Pareeeeeeeeeeeeee.  Well you might not be physically with me on the plane as I'll be heading over from New York, tired, weary and irritated.  But, but, but I'll squeeze your hand a little too hard before you walk that red carpeted Boulevard Haussmann outside Galeries Lafayette, I'll come and coo and oooh over your hotel room and scare you with how much I can pack in at a breakfast buffet?

Interested?

*Awkward silence*

**EDIT** One way of getting around the whole limited departure thang is of course if you live outside of nearish those cities, you can take a cheapie flight/train/coach that won't cost a bomb to get to NYC/London/Milan and still make the trip sort of worthwhile.  I know that only adds to the convolution.  Depends how much the thought of Pareeeeeeeeeeeee excites you.   

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Galeries Lafayette- Big fashion Show -1st edition

Hotel Secret- musee d'Orsay Bedroom

7 comments

  1. I am sooooo interested, but dang (wonder what that sounds like in French), I’m slated to be the mother of a bride on the 17th. Notice how I presume that I would win…

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