Last night actors got together to celebrate their craft at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Where there’s a red carpet, there is Chanel and three lovely leading ladies – Michelle Williams, Emma Stone and Tilda Swinton -wore Chanel Beaute. Here’s a break down of how to get their looks…
Celebrity Images: Just Jared
Earlier this week I posted about Numéros Privés, the exclusive Chanel event in Las Vegas – check out the video below to see what the experience was like…
To celebrate the launch of KARL collection for Net-A-Porter, Karl Lagerfeld hosted a swanky soiree at his home in Paris. After dessert, Azealia Banks performed live for the guests check it out below…also notice all the Orrefors by Karl Lagerfeld glasses on the table…
Karl Lagerfeld and Peter Philips are a match made in heaven. Karl conjures up intoxicatingly beautiful themes and collections and Peter Philips is always able to translate Karl’s visions into an equally gorgeous beauty collection. For the Chanel spring-summer 2012 haute couture Peter Philips gives us BLEU ILLUSION.
Peter Philips, Creative Director of CHANEL Makeup used the following CHANEL products to create the runway beauty looks:
Skin prepared with HYDRA BEAUTY SERUM Hydration Protection Radiance (available April 2012)
The Complexion
PERFECTION LUMIERE Long Wear Flawless Fluid Makeup SPF 10
ECLAT LUMIERE Highlighting Face Pen
CORRECTEUR PERFECTION Long Lasting Concealer
POUDRE UNIVERSELLE LIBRE Natural Finish Loose Powder
The Eyes
EXCLUSIVE CREATION ILLUSION D’OMBRE Long Wear Luminous Eyeshadow in Apparition and Destination (available July 2012)
EXCLUSIVE CREATION LE CRAYON YEUX Precision Eye Pencil in Bleu Aérien (available July 2012)
STYLO YEUX WATERPROOF Long Lasting Eyeliner in Marine
LE CRAYON KHOL Intense Eye Pencil in Marine
CRAYON SOURCILS Sculpting Eyebrow Pencil
INIMITABLE WATERPROOF Mascara in Black
RECOURBE CILS DE CHANEL Precision Eyelash Curler
The Cheeks
JOUES CONTRASTE Powder Blush in Rose Ecrin
The Lips
ROUGE COCO BAUME Hydrating Conditioning Lip Balm
LE CRAYON LEVRES Precision Lip Pencil in Natural
ROUGE COCO Hydrating Crème Lip Colour in Superstition
The Nails
EXCLUSIVE CREATION LE VERNIS Nail Colour in Sky Line (available July 2012)
* The Exclusive Collection BLEU ILLUSION will be available at specific points of sales in July 2012
Photos by Vincent Lappartient
Check out the interview below of Alice Dellal where she describes how she met Karl Lagerfeld and her experience working on the Chanel Boy Bag ad campaign…
Yesterday Chanel presented its Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2012 collection. Chanel News posted some images from the making of the press kit for the bedazzling collection. As is customary, Karl Lagerfeld took the photos but I apologize I don’t know the name of the model. My readers always help me out in this regard so feel free to chime in if you know who she is! I always love seeing Karl in action. Enjoy…
Photos © Olivier Saillant
Earlier today I reviewed the Chanel Joaillerie collection which pays homage to Coco Chanel’s 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection that was inspired by celestial bodies. Later on, I reviewed the spring-summer 2012 haute couture collection that simulated a commercial space shuttle but it wasn’t until I saw the actual presentation video below that I saw the connection.
This is purely my own hypothesis, but I’m betting that Karl Lagerfeld is paying homage to Coco Chanel’s 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection through haute couture fashion. It’s just a hunch but must me more than coincidence, no?
The video below also gives us some much needed close-ups of the hair pieces and the nail polish which looks like a shimmery powder/sky blue.
“No Fifties, no Sixties, no Seventies. Just what I like.”
-Karl Lagerfeld, WWD
Chanel presented its Haute Couture spring-summer 2012 collection at the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday and the airplane window hint Chanel dropped on Monday was confirmed. The Grand Palais was transformed into the interior of a “commercial space shuttle flight that, during the course of the show, left the Earth’s atmosphere and headed for space. Toward the finale, the Earth actually passed overhead, across the clear dome that allowed passengers a view of the starry sky outside.” (Style.com)
Having brought in an iceberg to the Grand Palais, surely bringing in and replicating the interior of an airplane must have been a piece of cake. The set or “aircraft” featured a 164-foot aisle, double-C monogrammed carpet, modern seating – all complete with a bar cart (I wonder if they had double-C ice cubes?).
Image from Chanel
Air travel not only inspired the set – but the color palette of the collection – a palatte Karl Lagerfeld called a “monochrome rainbow” though he was quick to point out that “I don’t have the blues.” (WWD). Every shade of blue was represented – from nearly translucent and almost white to the darkest of midnight blues.
The true innovation of the show however came in the form of the new silhouette Karl showed: exaggerated boat neck collars, large bell sleeves, long skirts and hyper-dropped waists. Known for playing with androgyny and borrowing from the boys (a legacy started by Mademoiselle herself), Karl said the very low waists (at about thigh level) were meant to look “like boys whose jeans are slipping off.” (Style.com). The show came to a traditional close with the showing of a wedding dress though there was nothing traditional about the dress at all. I love how Karl can adopt a new silhouette each season that looks completely new and unexpected, yet so classic and chic that it looks like it came from the Chanel lexicon.
I wish I could have seen the pieces up close because the amount of detail and workmanship cannot be appreciated from photos taken from so far away. But even with the photos, you can tell that the garments are dazzling. The embroidery and beading alone are gorgeous. I also would have loved to see a close up of the shoes and the hair pieces. Speaking of hair, it seems Alice Dellal is more than just the face of the upcoming Chanel Boy Bag campaign – she was also the muse for the hairstyles worn on the runway.
I’m hoping to receive more detail images of the beauty – curious to know about new beauty products and of course – nail polish! Stay tuned.
Thank you for flying with Chanel.
All images except as indicated from Style.com
Chanel Joaillerie Spring 2012 Open Necklace with Shooting Star Brooch
Chanel presented its Chanel Joaillerie Spring 2012 collection – the haute couture of fine jewelry. What set this presentation apart was that it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Coco Chanel’s 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection. In homage to Coco Chanel’s original 1932 collections, Chanel displayed nine celestial-inspired pieces – a preview of what we can expect to see at the July presentation that will honor the 80th anniversary. Coco Chanel was intrigued by astrology so taking inspiration from the cosmos was a natural progression for her. These pieces are literally “out of this world.”
Sources: WWD and Coco Chanel by Justine Picardie
Chanel Joaillerie Spring 2012 3-D Celeste Brooch
Coco Chanel 1932 Bijoux de Diamants scanned from Justine Picardie's "Coco Chanel" p. 218
Coco Chanel 1932 Bijoux de Diamants collection scanned from Justine Picardie's "Coco Chanel" p. 221
Last week I posted about the exclusive “Las Vegas de Chanel” cosmetics collection launching to commemorate the redesign of the Chanel boutique at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. In addition to beauty products, Chanel is releasing the Exclusive Edition for Las Vegas Handbags – a collection of 5 (Chanel’s lucky number – this is Las Vegas after all!) handbags. All five of the bags have an element of sparkle since you can never overdo anything in Las Vegas. My favorite of the five is the gold bag – the dice charms are too cute! That bag was made for high rolling!
I’m not sure if the bags will be rolling out to other locations or if they are exclusive to the Bellagio or to all the Las Vegas shops. A little birdie did tell me that the Las Vegas de Chanel cosmetics will be available at the Bellagio exclusively for one month and then trickle out to other locations. Good news for all the readers who were asking about availability! If you are at the Bellagio, be sure to ask for Giselle and she’ll make you look beautiful!
