Chanel has a fun new app on their Facebook page promoting the Chanel Rouge Coco Shine lipstick. It’s a photo booth where you take 4 images, and then customize them with a color filter and a lipstick name. It was quick and fun and probably the only time Chanel will ask for your picture:) Try it out on the Chanel Facebook page!
Where have I been for the past month-and-a-half? Perhaps I got tired of checking, but Chanel finally has an OFFICIAL TWITTER PAGE! No, they will not follow you back, but you can get official Chanel tweets: @Chanel.
Back in January I posted about the Chanel Culture exhibit in Shanghai and the accompanying micro site. On November 5 through December 13, the exhibit will be shown in Beijing, China at the National Art Museum of China. You can see images from the exhibit in my previous post on the Chanel Culture exhibit.
If you won’t be in China any time soon or haven’t had time to pick up one of the many new Coco Chanel biographies, the Chanel Culture micro site is a great place to visit. The website is fully interactive with replicas of each of the subsections of the exhibit, has photos, audio and never -before-seen videos. My favorite part of the site is a section for kids (or big kids) which features a Chanel memory game and a Chanel coloring book! I’m definitely printing out the coloring book images to save for my Tiny Dancer when she is older. You can view the micro site at http://culture.chanel.com/
Roberto Cavalli recently opened a boutique in the Ginza section of Tokyo. When asked about why he chose his particular location he stated: “I want it to be that [shoppers] come to find me. They shouldn’t find me by accident walking in Ginza. I think this is a really winning strategy. I will demonstrate this to the dear Messrs. Chanel or other people like that. Fine, you dress the grandmothers and the mothers and I’ll dress their kids.”
Mr. Cavalli, please don’t kid yourself. The only people that buy your clothes are people who have terrible taste. And, please don’t dress up as Karl Lagerfeld anymore. Thank you.
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It was funny because Karl and I were doing a shoot for Japanese Vogue, where I was talking about the underwater themes in my record, and he was saying how he wanted to do an underwater theme for his show. Then he said: ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if you came down on a big wire like you were floating?’ and I was like: ‘What?’ And he said: ‘We can get all these harps together…’ and all these ideas were coming to him just really off the cuff… so I thought he was joking and then he put his hand on mine and said: ‘Ok, so we’ll do it, I’m glad we talked.’ It was all really spontaneous! It was great to be a part of the spectacle, it wasn’t purely just my performance. It was about the clothes, and the models, and this whole set as well so it was quite nice being a part of something so exquisite and exciting. The clothes were wonderful, they all looked like beautiful, pastel-coloured fish in this underwater landscape with the pearls all over them.
-Florence Welch
Source: AnOther Magazine
Charlotte Casiraghi photographed by Karl Lagerfeld
Carine Roitfeld and Karl Lagerfeld are unstoppable. Just yesterday I posted about their collaboration for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2012 ad campaign and now they are working together on a book celebrating the iconic Chanel bouclé tweed jacket. The book is a celebration of one jacket worn by many beautiful women styled by Carine Roitfeld and photgraphed by Karl Lagerfeld. The book is still in production but V Magazine previewed five images featuring the Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Casiraghi, Saskia De Brauw and Daphne Groeneveld.
Carine Roitfeld is making an encore appearance as Chanel ad campaign stylist. She’s teamed up again with Karl Lagerfeld to style the Chanel spring-summer 2012 ad campaign. Lagerfeld said the campaign is “all about athletics and the sea.…It’s very modern sportif and in black-and-white.” The campaign was shot at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc (where the Chanel Cruise 2011/12 collection was shown) in Antibes, France with Saskia de Brauw and Joan Smalls featured in the ads. I can’t wait to see these images. The ads that Carine Roitfeld styled for Fall were so creative I’m looking forward to see what this dynamic duo came up with next!
Source: WWD, Photo: Rex
I just came across some images of the Chanel Christmas 2011 Accessories collection and I’d be happy to find any of these items in my Christmas stocking or under the tree. The collection features leather goods in a lavender leather, accessories in a muted color palette of lavender, grey and ivory and items in signature black and white. It’s hard to pick a favorite but I’m partial to anything with pearls or in black – Santa, I hope you’re listening! The collection will be in stores in December so start saving your pretty pennies or start dropping those hints 
Source: Coco’s Tea Party
I love inanimate object costumes – so why not dress up as a Chanel 2.55 purse? Apparently, that is a thing. I’m not sure how many you need to see to make it a thing, but I did a quick google search and I think I came up with enough images to deem it a “thing.” This costume requires a bit more DIY knowledge than the Karl Lagerfeld or Coco Chanel costumes. You’ll either need to know how to sew or know someone who sews. Either way, these costumes are awesome. I wonder if anyone has dressed up as a bottle of Chanel No.5?
