Posts Tagged ‘Chanel’

Fashionrules wrote about this two weeks ago – the brand new Chanel lipstick formulation, with Vanessa Paradis in the ad campaign. Chanel is launching 30 new colors, divided into reds, pinks, browns and beiges, with names like “Gabrielle” and “Mademoiselle” – in a new formulation, Rouge Coco, $30 apiece, and you can check out all the colors today on Chanel.net – there’s even a little web set up where you can see each shade as if it were a slice of lipstick.

Kristen Stewart finally went full-on femmy to the BAFTA Awards in London this weekend, in a white strapless Chanel.
She continues to wear very short dresses, with befits her young age – and since she can’t do much about the Joan Jett
mullet she’s letting grow out (from filming the movie “The Runaways,” which she’s apparently amazing in), it works
to wear short dresses and keep the jewels simple with that rocker hairdo. But, Karl Lagerfeld giving her a dress to
wear is a big deal. How many ladies have you see in Chanel this awards season? NOT MANY. Kristen won the Orange Rising Star
Award at the BAFTAs, a very big deal. And she does have a lot of new movies – some without vampires – in the hopper.

When Chanel Beaute’ launch the Chanel Coco Rouge new lipstick formulation for spring in a few weeks, the face of the ad campaign will be Vanessa Paradis – often associated with Chanel and its ads, and a wearer of Chanel clothes when she goes with her man Johnny Depp to the Oscars. Coco Rouge lipstick is being billed as a “modern interpretation” of crème lipstick. It’s apparently decidedly more clean and wearable than spectacular, introduced by the new Global Creative Director of Chanel Beaute’, Peter Phillips. “Makeup, like fashion,” Phillips has said, “is a nonstop moving organism, so textures and formulas evolve.”

From Chanel Cruise:
the Masquerade sunglasses…

Already blown out by 2010 and we’re only five days in? Don’t blame it on us! You had two full weeks off! Okay, so if the pre-Globe preparations aren’t doing you in – gathering jewelry and clothes, organizing hair and makeup – and then the Screen Actors Guild Awards the following week – or making plans for Sundance – or setting up your TIVO for the mid-season new shows – or catching all the movies you missed over Christmas – or thinking about NY Fashion Week on Feb 11, followed by Europe fall collections – there is ALSO the Paris couture shows for spring 2010, that start Sunday January 24th and end January 28th. Now, many magazines have cut back the amount of editors who are sent to these shows to cover them – and therefore, their importance has definitely slid. The pictures are shown on the internet, but these gowns and looks are pretty much reserved for the Oscars on March 7th. These dresses won’t be ready for the Globes or the SAGS, and are so expensive and elaborate that the designers want to have maximum impact. And they are all in a size 2, since usually only one version of the dress is made. If a star wants to wear one, she’ll have to be a 2. (This may explain how Anne Hathaway got so thin last year.) Christian Dior and Armani Prive are schedule for Jan 25. Chanel and Givenchy are January 26. Elie Saab, Gaultier and Valentino are Jan. 27. These looks are from the last Chanel Couture round of shows in Paris – and this is why couture will never die, even though very few American editors will be there. There is more info on the website.

Karl Lagerfeld’s taken to showing Chanel pre-collections and resort in cities outside of Paris – it’s a great way to be inspired by a new city, and of course, we’ll never forget when he showed Chanel resort/holiday at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, when the models walked off of a Chanel private plane. Awesome. For pre-fall 2010, he showed the collection in Shaghai, and of course, elements of lacquer red, Mao jackets and Chinese impressions from the thirties and forties are all evident in this collection filled with great coats, skirts, jackets and dresses – all molded and shaped beautifully, with very high boots – in red, a blue print, or yellow. The red boots are shown either in suede for day or red satin boots for night. The yellow suede boots are particularly perishable, as we can imagine the dirt would not stay off them for long – but they definitely make a statement. Since very high boots, over the knee, were the big fashion statement of the fall 09 collections, we can’t believe they won’t be again – this time, in color.

This week is Decadestwo’s Sixth Annual Chanel event, and for anyone who loves Chanel jackets, purses, hats, shoes, dresses – which is anyone on the planet with good taste – this is a must go. Even if you don’t buy, you kind of have to see it all in one place, at mostly major reductions from regular retail. It starts this Wednesday Dec 9 from 10 am to 7pm, and continues for a while after that – but let’s face it, the first day, all the good stuff goes. And yes, there are sunglasses, and they make an amazing Christmas gift. 8214 Melrose, west of Crescent Heights Blvd.

The Los Angeles Times, in a story this past Saturday November 7th, wrote about the ring of students in Los Angeles who have been breaking into the homes of stars like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, stealing what they are calling “bling:” jewelry, clothing, handbags, etc. These thieves, it turns out, were very fashion savvy. Apparently, these kids assertained over a million dollars worth of goods from stars’ homes – which also included Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson. There was video from cameras recorded, which caught them on tape entering and leaving. The Times’ article also mentioned that they found three hundred thousand dollars worth of

When Chanel hosts anything, anywhere, it’s always an occasion. Last night (Wed Sept 23), they hosted the West Coast signing of a new fashion and style book by New York socialite Amanda Brooks, who used to be creative director of Tuleh. The book is called “I Love Your Style,” and is actually a very charming picture and advise book on style, and how to find your own personal style. We tend to think there are WAY too many books on this subject, but we have to admit, this book is very charming, and documents some great style icons throughout the ages. Amanda wore a gorgeous Chanel belted dress with golden detail from fall, and greeted all types of L.A. fashionistas we haven’t seen in months – including Jamie Tisch, Elizabeth Wyatt, Chanel’s Nancy Lucas, Armani’s Wanda McDaniel (who didn’t go to Milan because she recently spent so much time in New York), C Magazine’s Jennifer Smith Hale, and co-hosts Cameron Silver and Samantha Gregory – who lives in L.A. only half the time, and is really a New Yorker.
But perhaps the most fashionable woman there was another co-host, the amazingly chic Minnie Mortimer. Minnie is the sister of Topper Mortimer in New York – the man married to N.Y. social phenom Tinsley Mortimer, whom New York Magazine claims to be galavanting around Europe with another man right now. Minnie is married to major screenwriter Steven Gaghan, and now lives in Malibu. She has a clothing line (MinnieMortimer.com) made out of French shirting fabric, and she sure looks great in Chanel – even though she showed up at the event over an hour late. But who cares? Her black and white Chanel dress with red shoes was an amazing look, and she has a great mix of French and New York style. – Merle Ginsberg