Chanel

Gray Hair Is Awesome (As Long As It's Fake) [Shades Of Gray]

source: Jezebel

Obviously, this started with high fashion; elderhair was all over the Gareth Pugh and Giles Deacon runways, and the world followed. (This is Katie Shillingford.) It is particularly desirable to look like an aging, strung-out punk whose dye job is growing out and thinks CBGB's is still a mu...

Published Fri, Jan 29

That's a Wrap! Wonderfully Fab Times at Paris Couture Week

source: FabSugar

We want more! Spring Couture week has wrapped and left us wanting more decadence, more designs, more clothes. In case you missed them, check out our Chanel, Christian Dior, and Jean Paul Gaultier reviews. In between the shows, celebrities and fashion insiders attended parties and posed f...

Published Thu, Jan 28

The Halston Effect: Paris Couture, Spring-Summer 2010

source: lefistnoir (WordPress)

The man is bonkers but a bonkers genius if there ever was one. There’s no stopping him. The Chanel shows can sometimes induce the need to retch into the nearest champagne bucket but there isn’t a fashion house that reduces women into spluttering, stuttering heights of deranged obsession as...

Published Wed, Jan 27

Link Time!!!

source: FabSugar

Taylor Jacobson named the face of Everyday Minerals - PeopleFashion investment pieces: black jeans - College FashionDIY design: vintage patterns in modern times - StylelistJohnny Weir’s furry shoulder under fire - The CutHayden Panettiere in Alberta Ferretti - Red Carpet Fashion A...

Published Wed, Jan 27

Gaultier Couture: For World Travelers Of Style [Fashion Show]

source: Jezebel

What with the much-lamented closure of the house of Christian Lacroix late last year, Jean-Paul Gaultier is the only Frenchman left at the helm of a major couture house. (Dior is designed by the British John Galliano, Chanel has the German Karl Lagerfeld, Armani is Italian, as are Valenti...

Published Wed, Jan 27

A Chanel Photo Op: Kanye West and Amber Rose

source: GlamScene

As one of Karl Lagerfeld’s most famous muses, Claudia Schiffer is a Chanel mainstay. The supermodel sat front row at this season’s Chanel Haute Couture show next to two other ubiquitous fashion followers-Kanye West and Amber Rose.  It looked like a picture perfect moment to Schiffer who t...

Published Wed, Jan 27

French Macaroons crossing over to fashion

source: besenretail (WordPress)

UPDATE: Another fashion/macaroon reference! The New York Times described the recent Chanel fashion show in Paris as, “Like a box of macaroons projected into cyperspace.” The runway was covered in pastel gowns and bright silver.  

Published Wed, Jan 27

Chanel "Coco Country" Bag

source: The Bag Snob

When Karl Lagerfeld erected a Chanel barn for his spring fashion show--complete with haystacks and reclaimed wood--I knew he had something pastoral up his sleeve. While I may not have agreed with his choice of shoes (clogs anyone?), the bags are a completely different story. I love the pla...

Published Wed, Jan 27