Two of my favorite things are Chanel and advertisements – when you put the two together, you can’t go wrong. I especially love vintage Chanel No 5 perfume ads and ads featuring apparel and accessories in the early days of Karl Lagerfeld designing for Chanel. When I was in Junior High School, I would rip out Chanel ads and paste them into my scrapbook. Unfortunately, the scrap book is long gone, but Blogue has put together a nice collection of vintage Chanel ads – check them out on Blogue.com.
Ah! It’s time for my favorite Chanel collection of the year – the Chanel Métiers D’Art Pre-Fall collection. Each year, Karl Lagerfeld selects a locale to inspire his pre-fall collection and this year he was inspired by Byzantium because of Coco Chanel’s love of Byzantine-style jewelry. The show is on Tuesday, December 7th. Stay tuned for more info – I can’t wait to see this show!
Image: Chanel News
Macy’s is hopping on the designer-for-less bandwagon by initiating a one-off designer collection next year designed by Karl Lagerfeld. The capsule collection will be produced in limited quantities and sold in approximately 250 Macy’s stores and online on Macys.com in September 2011. “The collections will rotate every two months and will start in February with Kinder Aggugini, a London-based designer who has worked with John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, Calvin Klein, Costume National and Versace.”
I’m thinking Karl’s capsule collection will look more like his own eponymous line rather than lines he designs for like Chanel and Fendi. If so, I have to say I’m not the biggest fan. However, if he takes any inspiration from Chanel I will definitely be excited to see how the collection turns out – and may even have to get some pieces!
Source: WWD
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy the weekend and I hope you get some good deals on Friday! I’ll be back on Monday 
Illustration by Danny Roberts
In an interview in Numero’s November issue, Lagerfeld replied: “I have a contract for life so it all depends on who I would like to hand it to. At the moment I’d say Haider Ackermann.” Lagerfeld has recently been enamored of Ackermann’s fashions, and had invited him to attend the most recent Chanel show. Ackermann reacted by saying, “What can one possibly say to such a phrase?! Such a compliment! Honored I feel, how can one not be?! In all honesty tremendously, immensely touched especially coming from Monsieur Lagerfeld.”
Imran Amed, the Founder and Editor in Chief of the Business of Fashion, interviewed Karl Lagerfeld for The Luxury Channel during the International Herald Tribune’s Heritage Luxury Conference. In the interview Karl Lagerfeld states that “Facebook is a flawless object.” I’m not sure he knows what Facebook is, but I think Uncle Karl is pretty flawless
Source: The Business of Fashion
This post has been a long-time coming – I was out of town last week and got a bit behind on posting…hope you enjoy the links below.
The Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting Chanel Culture, “an exhibition charting the iconic fashion house’s literary and artistic inspirations.” (WWD, 10.26.10) Running from January 15, 2011 – March 14, 2011, the exhibit will showcase over 400 items “including clothing, artworks, manuscripts and films.” The collection will be curated by Jean-Louis Froment, a French art director and critic and will be done with the consent and support of Chanel. The exhibit will cover Gabrielle Chanel’s life and her relationships with avant garde artists of her time including Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky through the Karl Lagerfeld tenure.
No word on whether this exhibition will travel but I really hope it will. As a history buff and Chanelphile, this exhibition is right up my alley!
