Best of Pre-Fall 2012

Fashion | 25 January 2012

Okay, so if you didn’t know, we just finished the pre-fall season for 2012. Below I highlighted my 10 favorite collections from the pre-fall season, in no particular order. You can agree with me or not, it’s okay, it’s what make the world turn, you know? You can always comment with your thoughts (wink wink, nudge nudge).

*So Chanel would totally make this list (it was one of my fav shows) but we already did a blog on it. So, don’t freak out, k?

East Meets West: Chanel Pre-Fall Collection 2012

Fashion | 12 December 2011

by Sienna

With the release of Chanel’s Pre-Fall Collection for 2012, it seems that creative director, Karl Lagerfield, has developed a taste for Indian. Gilded tunics, sumptuous silks, and skinny British Empire leggings melted into slim booties and embellished sandals. Hair jewels, thong-like bracelets and printed fingerless gloves compiled a list of characteristically Indian adornment, while Chanel classics like tweed suits and pearls exported the looks to their Parisian home front.

(images courtesy of Vogue Italia)

Love It or Hate It: Blake Lively As the New Face of Chanel Mademoiselle Handbags

Celebrity | 09 March 2011

by Laurie Hartt

Move over, Lily Allen: Blake Lively is upping the ante as the new face of Chanel’s Mademoiselle handbag line.

Much darker and more serious than Lily Allen’s previous campaign, this shoot reveals an edgier side to the bleachy blonde persona we’re used to seeing from Miss Lively. It also brings a more pensive, alluring attitude to the bags than did the playful shoots of Lily Allen, shown below.

The Chanel brand has long been know as the epitome of timeless chic, and is also credited with the invention of the “Little Black Dress.” Simple, comfortable, and elegant are the staple designs that have made Chanel famous since Coco herself began designing in 1910.

Continuing in Ms. Chanel’s footsteps, the brand has been advertised by some truly beautiful actresses, athletes, and style icons, including Catherine Denevue, Estella Warren, Carole Bouquet,

Nicole Kidman (who won the title of most money made per minute by an actor for this ad), Bar Refaeli,

Kate Moss, Kiera Knightly, Marilyn Monroe (who claimed that No.5 was her favorite thing to wear to bed!)

Vanessa Paradis, and Claudia Schiffer.

Whew!

That’s a lot to live up to!

Chanel pics from: here, here, and here.

Here Blake is (above, wearing Chanel of course!) at a dinner celebrating her new ad campaign and (below) with Chanel photographer Karl Lagerfeld, and I can definitely see the makings of a Chanel girl. There is charm, elegance, beauty, and joy evident both in her demeanor and in her actions.

Yet I wonder: has she shed the traveling pants too recently to be in league with other Chanel icons, or does she have the makings of another true legend?

Paris Fashion Week Spring 2011 Couture: The Future In Fashion at Armani Privé!

Fashion | 25 January 2011

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The future has now arrived and Tron: Legacy seems to have launched fashion into a video game where clothing looks more and more surreal. The Armani Privé spring 2011 couture show seems to be embracing a new sentiment, that we have to embrace ourselves for space travel in the near future.

It seems as though the metallic threads woven into these organza garments bent light at super speeds as the models floated down the runway.

Don’t these hats remind you of the discs that the programs of Tron:Legacy use to defend themselves? Odd reference for a couture show, I know, but I couldn’t help notice that they have a strikingly similar appearance!

Luckily there was a bit of color (teal, red, and fuchsia) thrown into the mix of gun metal silvers.

At least, as the years go by, we know that we’re already equipped with some pretty sweet futuristic clothes. And, as technology advances we’ll be able to create high heeled functioning moon boots and anti-gravity defiant gowns by the time we’re forced to use them!

Are you ready to move to the moon?

Fashion Week: Chanel's Controlled Nature for Spring 2011!

Fashion | 05 October 2010

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Remember Chanel’s trip to the arctic last season?

This season, Karl Lagerfield didn’t unleash the wild onto his audience, but brought us tip-toeing carefully around the sculpted and controlled shapes of an urbanscape. In lieu of Le Nôtre’s gardens throughout the luscious palace of Versailles, this faux-garden (constructed for the show), called out to the manicured tendencies of chic high society and high fashion.

Now, don’t think that the “manicured tendencies” means a dusty, tweed inspired re-cap of Chanel’s archives. Instead Lagerfield brought us into a realm of textiles that was new and exciting. Mixing in layers of chain necklaces, long skirts, wide lapels, and cutout fabrics that resembled organic materials themselves this collection will stand high in the lineup of Paris fashion week.