Chanel

By Susan Tabak I could watch footage from this Chanel show again and again.  It was really the high point of last week’s Prêt-à-Porter Spring 2010 presentations.  Click above to watch my video diary of Chanel, featuring Lily Allen’s performance and my conversation afterward with Karl Lagerfeld.

By Susan Tabak It may have been a rainy Tuesday morning, but everyone at Chanel was smiling.  There were so many bold-faced names in the crowd, from fashion VIP and celebrities to socialites and royals.  Some of the front-row guests are pictured below along with members of Chanel’s executive and creativ...

By chicinparis Chanel and Dior have been generating a lot attention for their recent film campaigns, and understandably so.  Both fashion houses have hired chic French beauties to star in their online videos — a new marketing frontier for the two luxury businesses.  As part of promoting the Coco Chanel b...

By chicinparis Films about high fashion just keep coming!  After seeing the splendid Valentino: The Last Emperor, I am looking forward to Anne Fontaine’s Coco Avant Chanel.  The gorgeous French actress Audrey Tautou plays the famous designer in a film loosely adapted from an Edmonde Charles-Roux bio...

By chicinparis I adore Karl and consider him a fashion master.  Frankly, though, this was not one of my favorite Chanel collections.  I thought the spare black dresses and many of the suits were beautiful, but I was not as keen on the patterned bodysuits and the mint and bubblegum pink color infusions.  And t...

By chicinparis  René Horak        To celebrate Coco Chanel‘s 125th birthday, Karl Lagerfeld has designed a special limited edition Chanel coin. It shows a portrait of Mademoiselle on the one side and a giant 5 on the other. „There might be less of it, but money can still be beautiful“, said the versatile co...

By chicinparis Chanel Chanel Couture presentations used to be held indoors in the salon of the rue Cambon. These days with the couple of thousand guests, this would be rather impracticable. Lagerfeld seems to have thought, well if the prophet doesn‘t come to the mountain, the mountain has to come to the pr...

By chicinparis The second day of the Couture season was just as exciting and surprising as the first. Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel took inspiration from tubes and the pipes of orchestral organs. This was not a soft collection, but was actually quite hard and architectural; it was futuristic dressing from a ve...

By chicinparis Karl Lagerfeld’s ingenuity is the ultimate fashion force. For Chanel he managed to conjure up 74 striking outfits, more than other designers show during prêt-a-porter. Menswear influences were abundant, as were wide-leg pants that brought to mind the heyday of the ‘60’s. Lagerfeld stay...