Both Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne, two beautiful young women with very symmetrical faces and bold eyebrows, were asked to participate in this year's Victoria's Secret fashion show and both were like, "HARD PASS. We're modeling for Chanel instead." Sorry, Victoria. Your secret does not intrigue the popular kids…
Chanel has really gone all out for their new Chanel N°5 ad campaign, which stars Gisele and was written and directed by Baz Luhrmann. I guess Brad Pitt's handsome mug wasn't cutting it.
Karl Lagerfeld has clearly been looking at footage from feminism's second wave for inspiration—but to what end?
As legend* has it, a mysterious hooded figure approached Karl Lagerfeld and Raf Simons before last season's couture shows and said, "Hey, did you hear about what the assorted lady-peasants are doing nowadays? They have this strange sort of shoe object — flat at the bottom, like a duck's foot, comprised of a slightly…
Haute Couture Week barrels on in Paris, where this morning Karl Lagerfeld showed his fall/winter collection for Chanel.
What is this. I mean, I know it's Chanel but WHAT IS IT.
Karl Lagerfeld hosted Chanel's recent fashion show in a fabulous market, one with designers teas and other items that would probably fetch bank on eBay. But if you were hoping to snag some Chanel swag from Lagerfeld’s latest foray into luxury grocery-cum-fashion shows, we regret to inform you that your dreams are…
Having just shown a couture collection in which the only footwear option was formal sneakers, it seems that Karl Lagerfeld is still devoted to provocatively (?) mixing the aspirational and the mundane. To wit: this presentation — which also heavily featured Fashion Sneakers, some of which were knee high — was…
If smelling bad looks this good, then damn, I don't want to smell good. (You know what I mean.) These perfume bottles designed by a Japanese artist who goes by Ruby Spark are the perfect renditions of the villains they represent. I'm not really into the whole Disney Princesses thing, but Disney Villainesses? I…
For this season's Chanel haute couture collection, Karl Lagerfeld drew his inspiration from the unlikeliest of sources. How unlikely are we talking? Well, um, every model on the runway was wearing formal sneakers. Some were wearing couture knee pads.
Expect to see Kristen Stewart's perma-scowl plastered over even more magazines next year: Refinery 29 reports that the starlet formerly known as Bella Swan will be the face of Chanel's Paris-Dallas 2013 Métiers d'Art Collection when it rolls out in May 2014. (Time works differently in the fashion world, folks.)
Chanel has purchased a tannery. Specifically, the luxury fashion brand has shelled out an undisclosed amount of money for Bodin-Joyeux, which has been around since 1860 and provides much of the lamb hide that goes into those oh-so-expensive quilted bags.
Fifty years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas as he rode in a motorcade alongside his wife Jacqueline. The now-iconic blood-spattered pink suit that the First Lady wore that day hasn't been seen in public since, but not because it's missing; it's because it's locked in a vault…
We've written a lot over the years about the racial diversity of the American fashion industry — and particularly the diversity of the models cast to walk in New York fashion week — but less about the biggest brands headquartered in fashion's other three global centers: Paris, London, and Milan. With couture week…
Well, Karl Lagerfeld's latest Chanel mini-movie has hit the Internet. The boondoggle features Keira Knightley in the role of Coco Chanel, and tells the story of Chanel's second boutique, a hat shop she opened in the resort town of Deauville in 1913 with financial backing from her boyfriend, Arthur "Boy" Capel. Aside…
It is still Paris Fashion Week y'all. And Chanel is supposedly one of the highlights. What did Karl Lagerfeld cook up for fall/winter 2013? Tweed jackets and skirts. A shrunkenly girlish pink sweater. A boxy pink suit Blair Waldorf would love. Epic over-the-knee boots that sort of look like combat boots with white…
Raise your hand if you would watch the hell out of a late-night talk show hosted by André Leon Talley. All of your hands had better be up! The man who coined the term drekitude has inked a deal with production company to develop such a show:
Today in Paris, Karl Lagerfeld presented the Chanel Haute Couture collection for Spring 2013. He told the Independent:
If the big, bad EU lawmakers in Brussels — glutted with government-issued waffles and chocolate — have their way, perfumed Europeans might have to wait until they swaddle themselves in a blanket of tree moss during a jaunt in the Dolomites before they realize that they have skin-scourging allergy to tree moss. That's…
If anything deserves a good mocking, it's Brad Pitt's new Chanel No. 5 ad, in which the actor rambles, "It's not a journey. Every journey ends. We go on. The world turns and we turn with it. Plans disappear. Dreams take over. But wherever I go, there you are: My luck. My Fate. My Fortune. Chanel No.5, Inevitable."…
