The brand Chanel, through its creative director kaiser Karl Lagerfeld, launched a new whole trend in fashion world: to present the Cruise Collection of the Maison in different parts of the globe, always new and unexpected but united by an irresistible charm. Destination of the s/s season 2015 are United Arab Emirates and the mysterious and suggestive atmospheres of a living paradise like Dubai, theater of the latest Chanel fashion show held just yesterday.
From Twilight to Chanel... It's official, after several rumors and great expectations here the first photos that shows Kristen Stewart as face of Chanel Métiers d'art Paris Dallas Collection 2014. The images show off the young actress struggling with a photoshoot characterized by a sophisticate native flavor, alternative and original that totally reflects Karl Lagerfeld's eclectic personality.
Has an almost exotic aftertaste the last Cruise Collection 2013/14 signed by Chanel. Next may 9th, in fact, in the suggestive and fascinating location of Loewen Cluster, in Singapore, Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Maison Chanel, will present to his most fashionista audience his latest work. And, for the occasion, kaiser Karl realized a short movie in black and white called Once upon a time... that will entratein the guests before the show. Setted in Deauville in 1913, it puts on scene the life of a young Gabrielle, before she became Coco Chanel; it tells the character before the myth.
"I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes"
(Amy Jade Winehouse)
This month, for the section Music & Fashion, I want to pay tribute to one of the most beautiful voices of last years, a star that shone like few other did and off too early... the music icon of this month is Amy Winehouse.
This month for the column Music&Fashion the spotlight shine on one of the most talented and interesting artists of the contemporary music scene. Fire red hair, languid look (almost melanchonic) and an enchanting voice. Just a few strokes, few shades, are enough to describe Florence Welch, vocalist of the Florence + The Machine the band with which she has climbed the pinnacle of success in just four years.
Hi guys! As I've annunced few months ago, this year I want to inaugurate a new column. Has it never happened walking in the street, taking a look to fashion shows or check out the magazines to see stuff you like and you fell in love with immediately and other ones that inspire in you diametrically opposed feelings. If this happened to you at least once, you were victims too of what I call Odi et Amo Syndrome. This new column is dedicated to it, to all those stuff that you can only love or hate.
After a little anticipation dedicated to the ugliest shoes in the world (in my opinion), the Beckett shoes by Isabel Marant (of which I talked about here), I couldn't wait to start officially and, finally, now it's time! Few months ago, it was october, I was focused on magazines and fashion channels in occasion of Paris Fashion Week S/S 2013. After seeing and appreciating the collections of Dior and Chloé, I was watching the Chanel fashion show. I started complimenting the clothes and accessories, reflecting about the great taste of the collection and thinking that Chanel is always Chanel and then it comes: white leather, round... huge! Is the Hula Hoop bag, Karl Lagerfeld's personal tribute to one the most famous toy in the world, appreciated by kids and adults, presented in two versions: maxi and mini.
Okay, let's talk about it. We all agree that to succeed in fashion scene you have to be always original and never ordinary, we all agree that from a poliedric and sometimes eccentric personality like Karl Lagerfeld one we can expect everything, but this?! Watching the models wearing this impractical wheel with an unlikely nonchalance, the first question that crossed my mind was: why? And the second: seriously? Two rigid circles, equal to the circles that hover around the waist of little girls, are the handles of bag placed between the two. The result? All shock and no chic!
Oh, come on! On what occasion could you wear a bag like that? Ah, of course, on the beach! Karl said it too... I can't stop laughing thinking about the face he did when, a bit annoyed, after the show, he had to explain to an arm of stunned journalists the use of this bizarre creation: <<It's for the beach. You need space for the beach towel, huh? and then you can put it into the sand and hang things on it>>.
Seriously Karl? But thinking about it has a point... I mean, if you are not comfortable to look like Wilma Flinstone and walking a wheel, you can always work of immagination and experiment new uses. Are you running out of ideas? There are some that might interest you...
Did you exceed with food during the holidays and you put on a few extra pounds? No problem! Goodbye losers and smelly gyms, I do exercise with hola hoop in the rythm of Chanel!
Is hot outside and you are scared to get sunstroke? You can always use it as hat... but hurry up. Thats's just a question of time before Anna Dello Russo steals to you the idea!
Your boyfriend or your friends dragged you in camping and you don't want to give up to glamour? Don't worry: open it and do a tent;
Did you say to your boss that you're sick but you're actually doing shopping and you're scared to be caught? Well, if you're fast you can hide inside it and no one will ever find you... for sure!
What can I say? A bag of thousand faces for thousand different personalities! Now, beyond irony, I'm sorry if my words will hurt the tenderhearted feelings of the most addicted fashionistas, who elected it (in its smallest version) as best accessory of 2013, but I really don't like: I think it's ugly, uncomfortable and unusable excepted for some photoshoots realized by some glossy fashion magazines, even if matched with... no, neither in that case! Whatever my opinion is, the harsh laws of fashion have made of hula hoop the new trend for the next spring/summer season. Will it be a success? Posterity will judge!
What do you think about it? It's odi or amo?
P.S. This is what happened in my head to the sight of Hula Hoop bag... enjoy it!
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous!"
Coco Chanel
Today, in occasion of the anniversary, I want to give a tribute to a fashion icon, capable with her work to revolutionize the concept of fashion of her time, turning it into something absolutely unique and timeless: Coco Chanel.
For the most sophisticate fashionistas around the world, this opportunity is more tempting than ever: the wardrobe of Daphne Guinness, muse of designers such as Alexander McQueen and pop icon as Lady Gaga, will be auctioned at Christie's (London) the next 27th june.
The irish heiress, one of the most prolif customers of Haute Couture globally, decided to sell a part of her extraordinary collection of clothes and accessories, in favor of the Isabella Blow Foundation, the charity she founded to support young artists and talented designers, in memory of her famous stylist and friend, who committed suicide in 2007.
Among the flagship of the auction, that includes a hundred of pieces among dresses, coats, skirts, tops, jackets and shoes of brands like Chanel, Balenciaga, Christopher Kane, Lanvin, Prada, Azzedine Alaia and Gareth Pugh, the most important is a silver mini-dress made especially for her by Alexander McQueen in 2008. The sculptural creation, estimated between 18 and 24 thousand euros, represent certainly the most precious lot. The other lots are estimated around 4 thousand euros, with more economic ones starting approximately from 370 euros.
We are delighted to be offering the fashion world this incredible one-off opportunity to buy some of the most iconic and cutting-edge haute couture of the early 21st Century, owned and worn by Daphne Guinness - said the director of Christie's fashion department, Pat Frost, stressing that the sale will benefit and training the designers of the future.
The auction should bring in about 120 thousand euros. Daphne Guinness has bought in june 2010 the entire clothing collection of Isabella Blow to prevent the sale at auction by Christie's, saying that she would never let the memory of her friend was scattered to the four winds in that way. It was her intention to reserve the archive of Isabella Blow to design students and that's what she did with the foundation on behalf of the fashion editor.
The complete catalog of the auction "The Daphne Guinness collection; sold to benefit the Isabella Blow Foundation" will be visible on line in mid-may on the web site of Christie's.
Put one of the most beautiful and romantic locationof the world, the gardens of Versailles, a sunny day of May and a buffet of fruit, vegetables and delicious macarons... In this novel frame, is held, last May 14, the Chanel Cruise 2012/13 fashion show.
The fashion icon that I choose for this month is french actress Clemence Poésy: graceful, blonde, ethereal with innocent look that seduces. The classic girl next door.
They were the mythical 50’s when Madame Coco created one of must famous
garment of Chanel brand: I’m talking about the Petite veste
noir, the mythical jacket, the model
takes its name from its creator, that became immediately a true cult on female
wardrobe.
Coco Chanel
Today as then, the Chanel jacket is still a
must not only for all fashionistas. A garment that throughthe ages, able to influencedesignersandordinary mortalsover time. Versatile and extremely feminine, is able to make your
outfit irresistibly elegant; at same way it matches impeccably even with a more
basic outfit. In my opinion, it’s a must have that everyone should keep in
their closet.
