December 7th, 2005 Chanel hosted the Paris-New York Collection. This collection was filled with classic dresses with silk chiffon & black and white tweed suits. If you want to stick with classic Chanel and think the Spring collection was too colorful and off-key for you, you can retreat back into a more demure Chanel look […]

From the Cruise Collection, feast your eyes on this piece of perfection. Coat is lightweight and lined in silk patterned with a camelia print. Tweed is a lovely light white with black woven in. The fit hugs your body as if it was hand tailored to your body. Military style loops are on shoulders but […]

 
Here are a few of my favorite looks from the Spring/Summer 2006 collection. The infusion of color to a classic tweed coat is unexpected and stunning. Is Karl honing in on Marc Jacobs with the purple and red tweed combo? Marc is dreaming of taking over Chanel. Maybe this is a sign?

In Shanghai, China Chanel hosted a special 2005-2006 Fall/Winter fashion show. Guests were escorted visa maglev train August 19th to the train station in Pudong International Airport where the show took place. Luxury brands have recently rushed to establish a foothold in China, seen as an irresistible and under-exploited market of 1.3 billion inhabitants. In […]

 
Kirsten Dunst spent spring in Versailles—home of the 18th-century French monarchy—as the lead in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming Marie Antoinette movie. She sat down with W writer Jessica Kerwin for an interview. She showed off original Lagerfeld sketches of her last Oscar gown. With talk heavily on France, W played dress up, showing us Kirsten in […]

  
If you are a Park Avenue princess, you can wear your hair as big as you want to! Chanel presents models wearing a creative 1960’s coffiture to match up with perfectly classic suits and dresses that you can wear at twenty or ninety. The show started off with the traditional suits and cocktail dresses, but […]

 
 
 
(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 […]

  
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 […]

 
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 […]