(1)Jessica Alba wore a luscious coco brown and pink fall season cashmere sweater to the opening of her movie “Sin City”. This sweater is sold as a set, complete with cashmere shell top. (2)Katie Holmes, currently engaged to Tom Cruise has been sporting Chanel dresses at all the recent events she has been attending. This […]
“A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.”
The Chanel Paris boutique at 18 Place Vendôme held a gathering during Paris Couture week exhibiting both their 2005 Éléments Célestes fine jewelry line along side of artist Xavier Veilhan’s temporary installations. Attended by actresses, models, celebrities along hand with other couture clients; ladies who could actually afford to buy these lovely gems.
Velilhan’s pieces […]
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
This collection is not the Chanel your grandma knew, far from! Chanel is on the cutting edge of innovation and marketing. The Japanese market loves Chanel. Being that Chanel generates as much revenue in Japan as in the entire European market, there is no question as to why we have a show almost clearly made […]
A little interesting fact:
Chanel invented her first shoe line to lengthen the leg and make the foot appear smaller. She did this with making the shoe beige, the color of the leg. Then the toe was black, stopping the eye’s view of the foot, making it appear smaller. This is how the iconic beige and […]
With the MET exhibit open, and the 50th anniversary of the 2.55 quilted purse, it is appropriate that we take a retrospective look back onto the foundations of Chanel designs. Fall is bringing us many vintage reproductions and distressed leather purses. The original 2.55 purse design (2) is being reissued (but more on that later). […]
Chanel was a pioneer, innovating so many fashion basics we take for granite today. With out her, who knows where the state of fashion might be today. Here compiled is a list of things she was a “first” at doing.
Coco invented the shoulder strap for purses allowing a woman to free up use of […]
May 5, 2005–August 7, 2005
The Metropolitan Museaum of Art now has an exhibit open on Chanel. The museaum will be showing original clothes designed by Coco Chanel herself from the 1920’s though to modern designs by Karl Lagerfeld. Stunning examples are shown from the museaums archives, clothing on loan from the design house, as […]
2005’s Fall season has a delightful mix. Always reinventing Chanel style but still taking from traditional elements you have a recognizably Chanel look. The dresses have a very luxurious subtle 1960’s feel. We see a-line dresses that looked as if modeled by Twiggy. The runway makeup was inspired by Penelope Tree, another model of that […]