Posts Tagged ‘Chanel’

MacQueen – Love for pure beauty

CHANEL – Love for fur

BALMAIN – Love for shine

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER – Love for Boho

VICTOR & ROLF – Love for theatric

MARGIELA – Love for hat

MARGIELA – Love for Minimal

Chanel Fiole – Concept Car Design

Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel
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I know is a little bit crazy. But would be funny :)
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Be safe. Always use condom.
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Definitely I am hoping this movie is going too bring all the essence of the amazing Gabrielle Coco Chanel.

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Karl Lagerfeld has designed this special edition Segway called The Chanel Segway x2. It’s all black and features quilted leather fenders and handles. The Segway also features a Chanel quilted leather pouch attached to the front handlebars…and check out those tires! No word on how many were made or the price but I’m pretty sure it’s out of a mall cop’s price range.

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Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel
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The Chanel empire

In 1923, she told Harper’s Bazaar that “simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” Coco Chanel always kept the clothing she designed simple , comfortable and revealing. She took what were considered poor fabrics like jersey and upgraded them. She was instrumental in helping to design the image of the 1920s flapper, a “new breed” of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and showing a lot of skin.

The iconic Chanel jacket is in many ways a microcosm of this design philosophy. A Chanel couture jacket has numerous design and construction details that distinguish it from a tailored jacket as traditionally constructed. For example, they lack the complex inner structure of interfacings, pad stitching, and facings commonly used in bespoke tailoring. Rather, the silk lining is machine quilted directly to the fashion fabric, the long exterior seams of the fashion fabric are machine sewn, and then the shoulder fashion fabric seams are machine sewn. The interior lining seams and the outside edges of the lining are turned under and hand stitched to the edge of the jacket. The three piece sleeve (another distinctive Chanel feature) is constructed in a similar manner, and then hand sewn to the body of the jacket. The heavy trims, cast metal buttons and the curbed chain sewn to the hem have a functional purpose by adding weight to a garment that is really nothing more than fashion fabric and lining. The end result is a supremely comfortable garment, more like a sweater than a traditional jacket. Most of her fashions had a staying power, and didn’t change much from year to year — or even generation to generation. Karl Lagerfeld has been, since 1983, the art director of Chanel, both for the haute couture and prêt-à-porter.

Chanel came out with her first signature fragrance, Chanel No. 5, in 1921. The perfume was the first to have a designer’s name attached to it, and it has enjoyed tremendous success since its introduction. In this way, Chanel set the standard for successive designers to do the same.

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