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Cruise 2006/2007

Administrator — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:33:58 +0000

Don’t miss out on the exclusive video taken at New York’s Grand Central Station of the Chanel Cruise 2006 2007 collection. Enjoy the emphasis Karl has taken lately on showing the clothes in real life settings. Click the picture above to view.

Paris – New York 2006 Collection

Administrator — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:33:38 +0000

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 here.

The Quintessential Chanel Tweed Jacket

Administrator — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:25:11 +0000

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 stay low to the shoulders not giving a bulky look as some of the other coats in the line look. This coat also comes in black fabric with less white woven in. Retail price is $5,250.00

Spring/Summer 2006 Tweed Jackets

Administrator — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:38:40 +0000

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?

Chanel To Conquer Asian Luxury Brand Market

Administrator — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:07:46 +0000

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 a pseudo communist country, I guess your quite privileged if you can come to afford luxury goods.

W Loves Kirsten Dunst In Chanel

Administrator — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:11:50 +0000

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 a Chanel fall frock and blouse.

Fall 2005 – Chanel Haute Couture

Administrator — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:46:42 +0000

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 quickly heads into long debutant and showgirl frocks dripping in beads, netting and feathers. Speaking of showgirls, Dita Von Tesse, burlesque society star and fiancée to Marilyn Manson attended sitting front row. She was picking out a gown for an up coming photo shoot. She might have her eye on this pink and black confection with a hint of Victoriana meets Barbie’s bubble dress.

“Hidden luxury” is the theme Karl stamped this collection with. Luxury is concocted from fabric’s rich in details, all the things haute couture is best known for. Dresses are woven with metallic threads, ribbons, layers of wool and net. There is not only beading, but heavy layers of it. Feathers peak from every seam. The primary colors here are the obvious; black, white, gold, and pink with a random splash of rainbow in a few pieces. These rich and sumptuous pieces are made to be red carpet Oscar show stoppers. The strapless black and white feather dress would be a perfect choice.

The whole collection meets with great approval, but a few pieces are still questionable. Though sometimes it is nice to be nostalgic over the 1980′s era, these “Dynasty” dresses above might just be worth leaving behind. Does Karl hope that one of the teen idol actresses will wear this last atrocity to their prom? It is also hard to see what Karl wanted to portray with his gaudy beaded rainbow dress. Well not everything is perfect, even in the world of Chanel.

Who’s Wearing Chanel These Days

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:36:08 +0000

(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 red dress is from the Paris-Tokyo collection. (3)Vanessa Paradis, French actress, Chanel model, and girlfriend to Johnny Depp often depends on Chanel for the red carpet as she did at the “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” premiere. (4-5) Lindsay Lohan must have just returned from a large Chanel shopping spree. She wore Chanel to the MTV awards. Lindsay has also been spotted in a few black Chanel dresses, pearl necklaces and chain belts, not to mention large CC logo sunglasses for a very Hollywood look. (6) Princess Caroline of Monaco looks to have on Chanel Couture. Lucky her!

Paris-Tokyo Collection

Administrator — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:08:31 +0000

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 to order. Is this Yoko Ono in the 60′s, but in Chanel style? Japanese Street style has a clear influence, no doubt about it. There is barely a brave American who would wear patterned tweed pants layered with mismatched coats, sweaters, go-go boots, then have the guts to accessorize with costume jewelry after all that. The Japanese will, with styling straight off the runway, gothic Lolita makeup and all. The bows are bigger, the jewelry more excessive, the hair more extreme. The modern art drama of this show is not for the fashion timid. The simplicity that Coco Chanel strived for was thrown out the door. At least thanks to this season and the fun Karl had with it, we have a whimsical matchstick high heel and stunning redesigns of Coco Chanel’s cuff bracelets.

Be it a bit heavy, there is still pieces here that are being ordered for our American market. This red dress has all the elements fall trends are asking for, Edwardian romanticism in darker rich colors. Take note, Chanel is slowly sneaking in men’s fashions. Start convincing your boyfriends, husbands and gay guy friends that it’s the next best thing since Dior Homme. Boutiques are ordering just a select few pieces for men at this time.

Fall 2005 Ready To Wear

Administrator — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:34:55 +0000

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 era. When viewing the fabrics of these luscious dresses at trunk shows, you can appreciate them so much more. More than just having a retro look, even the fabric looks like it is from another era. Vintage fabrics are often synonymous with quality, something modern day clothes often lack. You can see Karl keenly paid attention to when fabrics when chosen for these Fall designs.

Though Karl hates era comparisons, understandable so with his eye to the future, he often brings an air of whimsy and nostalgia into his designs. With his fishnet dresses, you have a tasteful interpretation of the 1980′s, a hard era to give class to. Perhaps looks like these are the ones people are referring to when they say Chanel has been so “youthful” and “fresh” lately. These dresses are made for girls in their twenties!

This Fall we saw more beautiful tweed coats (that you can never go wrong with) layered with knits, silver lurex fabrics, skinny pants and leg warmers. Sexy slouchy thigh high leather boots gives an edge to school girl skirts. Most of the outfits were accessorized by the epic reissue of the original 2.55 purse, bringing tradition to balance out the innovative designs of the season.