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March 18, 2013

Karl Lagerfeld Directs Keira Knightly in Chanel Deauville Film

coco chanel deauville

Last November I mentioned that the upcoming Chanel Resort 2014 collection will take place in Deauville to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Coco Chanel’s first boutique. While it appears that he is now showing the Cruise collection in Singapore, Karl Lagerfeld is directing a Chanel film featuring Keira Knightly as Coco Chanel. Though shooting in Paris, he plans on recreating the seaside town with “detailed retro sets.” Chanel’s aunt Adrienne (pictured above on the right with Coco Chanel) will be played by French actress Clotilde Hemse. The film will also feature Stella Tennant, Tallulah Harlech, Caroline De Maigret and Brad Kroenig and his son Hudson. The film will debut in May along with the collection.

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March 11, 2013

Preview of Inside Chanel Episode 4: The Jacket

Chanel has released Episode 4 of Inside Chanel and this video takes us inside Chanel’s infamous jacket. This film illustrates the rich heritage surrounding the house’s iconic jacket, which is as relevant today as it was the day Mademoiselle Chanel created it in 1954. Along with the film, Chanel has released some sketches by Karl Lagerfeld featuring Coco Chanel and her signature jacket. The full version of the film releases on Wednesday, March 13th. Stay tuned for more!

Soundtrack:
1. Artist: Bersarin Quartett
Title: “Alles ist ein wunder”
Denovali records

2. Artist: Katsuhisa Hattori
Title: “500,000,000 JPN”
Toho Music Corporation / Shochiku Music Publishing Co, Ltd

3. Artist: Chromatics
Title: “Lady”
Italians do it better

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February 20, 2013

N°5 Culture Chanel Exhibit Comes to Paris

Coco Chanel & Chanel N°5

1937 – Gabrielle Chanel in her suite at the Ritz hotel in Paris. Published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1937, this photo was chosen for the CHANEL N°5 advertisement. For the first time, Chanel herself promoted her perfume.
Photo François Kollar © Ministère de la Culture Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN

In 1921, Gabrielle Chanel launched her first perfume – N°5.

She entrusted this task to Ernest Beaux, a French perfume creator to the court of Russia until 1917, whom she later met in Grasse in 1920. Together they invented a fragrance “with the scent of a woman” as she would like to qualify it. Thought out like a designer-dress, N°5 was the first “abstract” fragrance. Unlike the fragrances in fashion at the time, which often suggested a single “figurative” scent like rose, jasmine or lilac, N°5 had no identifiable dominant note among the eighty ingredients that made up its composition.

New and audacious, N°5 evoked a mysterious flower. This olfactory revolution succeeded in outmoding all other fragrances. If Mademoiselle Chanel conceived her N°5 to be a manifesto, she also carefully and intentionally decided on its stark name, once again defying conventions of the time with just a simple laboratory sample number, which also happened to be her lucky number.

The same minimalist rigor was applied to the N°5’s visual presentation, with its squared edges and clean graphic lines, it was slid inside white gros-grain packaging edged with black, which echoed the pure lines she used in her fashion creations.

Mademoiselle Chanel knew that this radicalness would launch her off into the avant-garde of her time – N°5’s destiny was to become an icon of modernity.

CHANEL – Daniel JOUANNEAU – Didier ROY

N°5 Culture Chanel

Palais de Tokyo, Gianni Motti Big, Crunch Clock, 1999-2005
Photographer : Thierry Depagne

From May 5th until June 5th, 2013 the Palais de Tokyo in Paris will house the N° 5 CULTURE CHANEL exhibition as part of its Guest Program. This exhibition has once again been entrusted to Jean-Louis Froment, the curator of the previous editions of CULTURE CHANEL, held successively in Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum for Fine Arts, in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China and more recently in the Opera House in Canton.

Made up of subtle plays of correspondences, N° 5 CULTURE CHANEL cracks the N° 5 code to reveal the links which connected it to specific moments in time and to the avant-garde movements it spanned.

The works of art, photographs, archives and objects exhibited provide an account of the many inspirations which fed the imagination and world of Mademoiselle Chanel. They echo her inner thoughts and shed light on this unique and timeless perfume; whether through her favorite destinations like Venice, Russia or her villa, La Pausa or through the creations of her artist, poet and musician friends Cocteau, Picasso, Apollinaire, Stravinsky, Picabia.

Focusing on the long lasting attachments between CHANEL and the arts, N° 5 CULTURE CHANEL seeks to reveal the timeless and iconic artistic essence of the N° 5 perfume. The N° 5 CULTURE CHANEL exhibition has been put together by Jean-Louis Froment with the participation of Irma Boom, Piet Oudolf, Laurent Burgisser and Jérôme Schlomoff.

Learn more on 5-culture.chanel.com.

CHANEL – Daniel JOUANNEAU – Didier ROY

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January 28, 2013

Archival Video Footage of Coco Chanel’s 1932 Diamond Exhibit

Discovered by the CHANEL Direction du Patrimoine in the Pathé-Gaumont cinematographic archives, this film presents the “Bijoux de Diamants” exhibit held from November 7th-19th, 1932 at Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment 29 Faubourg Saint Honoré in Paris. Broadcasted before the feature movies in every French cinema, it was a prominent event in French news in November 1932.

I love seeing the archival footage of the original exhibit in Coco Chanel’s own home!

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January 21, 2013

Culture Chanel Exhibit Images

Last week I wrote about the Culture Chanel exhibit in Guangzhou, China. The exhibit is now open and WWD had some great coverage of Culture Chanel. Here are some images from the exhibit, one of my favorite items is Mademoiselle Chanel’s door and her personal effects. Take a look below…

Photos by Joyce Yung for WWD

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January 16, 2013

MY CULTURE CHANEL

For those of us who won’t be in Guangzhou, China to see the new Culture Chanel exhibit, Chanel has created an interactive website devoted to Culture Chanel. By visiting the site you can watch videos about each of the themes explored in the exhibit: Le Train Bleu, Breathe, Move, Love, Dream and Invent. You will also find images of photographs, paintings and illustrations that are featured in the exhibit. By adding an image to “My Culture Chanel” you can make your own exhibit. Visit La Chanelphile’s My Culture Chanel page here.

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January 15, 2013

New Culture Chanel Exhibit In Guangzhou, China

In 2011 Chanel opened a Culture Chanel exhibit in China at Shanghai’s MOCA. The exhibit took a biographical approach and looked at events in Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s life and how they influenced her life’s works. On Wednesday, Chanel is opening the second installment of the Culture Chanel exhibit at the Guangzhou Opera House.

The Guangzhou Opera House was designed by Zaha Hadid, who if you remember, also designed the Chanel Mobile Art Pavillion. The decision of venue is an indication of the direction of the exhibit which Chanel explains as an exploration of “the behaviours and attitudes that set this style in motion and that the Chanel designers apply today, giving Chanel a timeless contemporary quality.”

Coco Chanel’s fearlessness and independence “allowed women to breathe, move, love, dream, and invent their life as a woman.” As such, the exhibit is split up into these categories to delve into the world of Coco Chanel’s creative process, and her relationships with avant garde artists of the time including Jean Cocteau, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Radiguet, and Pierre Reverdy.

Art Director Jean-Louis Froment, curator of the Culture Chanel exhibit stated: “It is a unique history that intertwines and may merge with history as a whole. It is the creation of a language that goes from Gabrielle Chanel’s timeline to the line of creations that the brand has to offer today.”

Today Chanel released a video of the behind-the-scenes preview of the Culture Chanel exhibit. In the video, we see the hanging of “Le Train Bleu” by Pablo Picasso. “Le Train Bleu” was a ballet by the Ballets Russes where Pablo Picasso painted the backdrop and Coco Chanel designed the costumes. This was but one example of Coco Chanel’s collaboration with the leading thinkers and artists of her time.

I wish I was going to be in Guangzhou so I could see this exhibit! If you are there in the next few months here are the details of the exhibit:

In collaboration with the Guangdong Museum of Art and the Guangzhou Opera House Chanel presents Culture Chanel.
Guangzhou Opera House
No 1, Zhujiang Xi Lu, Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District,
510623 Guangzhou, China
January 16, 2013 – March 3, 2013
Opening hours: 10 am to 7 pm, Monday to Sunday
Free admission upon presentation of valid ID

Jean-Louis Froment will present a wide – audience lecture to enhance the visit.
In the auditorium of the Opera House –  January 16 2013 at 3pm
Free admission – Advanced booking required

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January 6, 2013

New Year Wishes From Chanel

This lovely holiday video from Chanel matches the Christmas card the company sent out – so simple and lovely. Hope you had a wonderful holiday and wishing you a Happy 2013!

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December 16, 2012

Chanel Nº5 Trolley in San Francisco

On Friday and Saturday, the San Francisco streets were a bit more dressed up with the presence of a refurbished Chanel trolley car. Decked out in signature black and white, the Chanel Nº5 Trolley featured tweed seats and a six-window display detailing the history of Chanel Nº5.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley in San Francisco

The exhibit began with Chanel Nº5′s start as a creation of Gabrielle Chanel and perfumer Ernest Beaux and a 3D printed replica of 31 Rue Cambon.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – Created by Gabrielle Chanel and Perfumer Ernest Beaux

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – Replica of 31 Rue Cambon

Next, the evolution of the Chanel Nº5 bottles was displayed – also 3D printed replicas – along with the current Chanel Nº5 ad campaign featuring Brad Pitt.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – The evolution of the Chanel Nº5 bottle

As you walked through the Chanel Nº5 trolley you were invited to experience the scent of May Rose – one of the main ingredients of Chanel Nº5 – and the sweetest, loveliest rose scent I have ever experienced.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – The lovely scent of May Rose

The exhibit closed with experiencing the different iterations of Chanel Nº5 – Chanel Nº5 Parfum, Chanel Nº5 Eau de Toilette, Chanel Nº5 Eau de Parfum and Chanel Nº5 Eau Premiere.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – The Different Interpretations of a Classic Scent

To experience each of the different interpretations of Chanel Nº5, Chanel had its patented, exclusive ceramic blotters. The use of ceramic blotters allows the user to experience the truest form of the scent without the need for spraying. While other perfume brands just water down the scent to create Eau de Parfum and Eau de Toilette, Chanel does not engage in this practice. Instead, adjustments are made to the basenotes of the fragrance for each interpretation.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – Close-up of the Tweed Seats

Created in 1921, Chanel Nº5 Parfum is a blend of florals and aldehydes with May Rose and Jasmine, both from Grasse, France at the forefront. In 1924, the Chanel Nº5 Eau de Toilette was created with the Sandalwood scent enhanced creating a more woodsy scent. We don’t see a new development until 1986 with the creation of Eau de Parfum, by Chanel Master Perfumer Jacques Polge, which softened the Jasmine and Ylang-Ylang notes. There was a large time span between the creations of Eau de Toilette and Eau de Parfum because before the 197-s Eau de Parfums did not exist. Finally in 2008, Jacques Polge created Chanel Nº5 Eau Premiere, a modern, lighter interpretation of Chanel Nº5.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley – Close-up of the steering wheel

After experiencing each of these fragrances, I was surprised to learn that I had never actually smelled the original Chanel Nº5. I knew that the main ingredients were May Rose and Jasmine but I could never find them in the scent. That’s because the Chanel Nº5 that I was familiar with was the Chanel Nº5 Eau de Parfum and I didn’t know that each interpretation was a bit different. I’m so happy that I was able to experience the true essence of Chanel Nº5 in the Chanel Nº5 trolley!

Chanel Nº5 Trolley in San Francisco

After guests made their way through the trolley to view the exhibit, they were helped off the trolley by handsome models and given a ticket that was stamped – with a stamp in the shape of a Chanel Nº5 bottle.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley ticket with stamp

Once you received a ticket you were invited to visit Macy’s to receive a free sample of Chanel Nº5 Eau de Parfum and Chanel Nº5 Eau Premiere.

Chanel Nº5 sample received with the Chanel Nº5 Trolley ticket

Visiting the Chanel Nº5 was a wonderful experience – and a lovely way to start off a day of holiday shopping in Union Square, San Francisco. Attending a Chanel event lets you experience the brands exquisite attention to detail where absolutely nothing is overlooked. From the immaculate design of the trolley complete with interlocking C’s on the hubcaps and steering wheel, to the tweed on the seats, to the little Chanel Nº5 bottle stamp for the tickets. If you were in San Francisco I hope you had a chance to experience this for yourself. If not, I hope you enjoy the photos.

Chanel Nº5 Trolley in San Francisco

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December 12, 2012

Visit the Chanel N°5 Trolley in San Francisco!

“Clang, clang, clang went the trolley!” I am very excited to announce that Chanel will be hosting an event in San Francisco this week to celebrate Chanel N°5 and the holiday season! Chanel has created an installation where the public can experience the world of N°5 inside a reconstructed San Francisco trolley car. The Chanel N°5 trolley will be open to the public on Friday, December 14th @ 12noon – 3:30pm and Saturday, December 15th @ 12noon – 3:30pm. It will be parked outside of Macy’s on Geary St. in Union Square Park. I can’t wait to see it! If you can’t make it don’t worry, I’ll tell you all about it