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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.

Chanel on Bluefly.com

Administrator — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:55:24 +0000

Chanel goods are now for sale on Bluefly.com. Who would have ever thought you could grab up Chanel at discount prices, none the less shop Chanel online? I see a nice selection of shoes, hats and purses. Go now as I have a feeling the selection will be sold out fast.

Spring/Summer 2006 Fashion Show Review

Administrator — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 08:26:35 +0000

By Kerstin Gehmlich
PARIS (Reuters) – Chanel’s designer Karl Lagerfeld evoked the era of James Dean in his summer collection on Friday, combining the classic Chanel tweed jacket with jeans in the year marking the 50th anniversary of the actor’s death.
Lagerfeld put up a sparkling show in the luminous Grand Palais, a glass-topped exhibition hall which opened its doors last month after being closed for repair for an entire decade.
Models wearing jackets with graphic patterns and denim tops streamed out behind a giant pink curtain, which matched the colours of the hundreds of little pink and green umbrellas Chanel had distributed to all guests. Round-brimmed hats were in the spirit of James Dean.
“The Grand Palais is magnificent,” Lagerfeld told reporters after the show in the vast glass-and-steel masterpiece built for the 1900 World’s Fair.
Robert Burke, senior fashion director at luxury retailer Bergdorf Goodman, said Chanel convinced with its elegant, refined clothes.
“Chanel has a wide breadth of customers, meaning many different ages. That’s what Karl’s brilliance is — putting down clothes that appeal to so many generations,” he told Reuters.
A model wearing a white long dress with a large black diagonal bow tie on the shoulder and big flowers at the hem walked past illustrious spectators such as Bernadette Chirac, the wife of France’s conservative president.
Absent from the front row was scandal-hit British model Kate Moss, one of Chanel’s main advertising faces who is normally a guest at the house’s shows.
A cloud has hung over the 31-year-old model since a London newspaper alleged that she snorted cocaine.
SYMPATHY FOR MOSS
Moss, the face of Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle perfume since 2002, has been dropped by Britain’s Burberry fashion house and the Swedish-based retailer Hennes and Mauritz after the Daily Mirror ran the charge.
Chanel has said it would not renew a contract with Moss when it expired this month but did not comment on whether this was linked to the cocaine scandal.
While the scandal may have cast a pall over Moss and her career, it does not seem likely to tarnish Chanel’s image.
“The difference between a luxury brand and a big retailer is that the luxury brand has a very strong identity. She does not symbolise Chanel’s values,” said Francoise Hernaez Fourrier from TNS Media Intelligence.
Such scandals could be more damaging for large high street retailers, who liked to play with the image their advertising stars currently held in the media, she said.
“In comparison, a luxury brand will use a star as seen in the cinema, it’s like the star’s stage role,” she said.
Lagerfeld has said he felt sorry for the British model.
“Filming the girl was a really nasty trick,” Lagerfeld told reporters after the show for his own label — Lagerfeld Gallery — on Wednesday, adding no one could prove that Moss had indeed snorted cocaine.
“The girl is not selling her private life, but her image,” Lagerfeld said. “What the girl does herself only regards her,” the pony-tailed German designer said.
American actress Sharon Stone has also jumped to Moss’s rescue after the publication of grainy pictures that allegedly showed her taking cocaine.
“I understand that she has apologised and is changing her life. And I think that that is the most important thing that’s happened,” said Stone, who was also in Paris for fashion week.

Toronto Film Festival After Party Hosted By Chanel

Administrator — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:48:06 +0000

Following the Toronto Film Festival showing of “Thank you for Smoking” on Friday September 9th, Chanel on Bloor Street co-hosting with Time Magazine threw a fabulous after party celebrating the screening. “Thank you for Smoking” is a joyously malicious satire about a tobacco lobbyist starring Robert Duvall, Katie Holmes, Maria Bello, William H. Macy, and Adam Brody. The party was surrounded by Chanel bags, cocktails and tweed. (and not to mention stars!) What a nice combination.

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.

Éléments Célestes – A Party Among Art and Fine Gems

Administrator — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:02:58 +0000

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 exhibited include a enormous reclining female statue, which was digitally designed in resin. Upstairs, metallic plates presenting the jewels move across a metallic table top while Veilhan’s light machine fills the room with light.

Éléments Célestes brings us star-struck gems in perfect white diamonds and pearls. This line inspired by the wonders of the cosmic world is shaped as comets, stars, constellations and planets done in broaches, necklaces and earrings. Some of the jewelry designs are rooted from creations the design house issued in the 1930′s. Shown here is a ring made of white gold, reticulated crystal and diamonds. On the right, an adjustable bracelet of white gold, diamonds with floating pearls. The bracelet expands to the width you want to wear it at, smaller for the wrist, wider for higher on the arm. The bracelet resembles the symbolic Chanel gardenia when collapsed to it’s smallest form.

Chanel Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Administrator — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:16:55 +0000

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 well as other institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The exhibit launched with a gala opening night party. The who’s who of the fashion world arrived dressed in their best. Don’t mistake the garb for a black and white ball. It’s just Chanel style!