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Best make-up looks for spring summer

August 10, 2010
Best make-up looks for spring summer

 

To get your thinking about what to buy, here are the best looks for the coming season. Fluoro shadow
Swipe fluoro shadow – in a messy Fashion – over your lids (as seen at Balenciaga) or highlight the inner corners of your eyes for an alternative to metallics. Peach cheeks Forgo bronzer in favour of peach or apricot-coloured blush (as seen at Louis Vuitton). Use a matte shade for intensity or choose one [...]

Coco Chanel invented a fashion vocabulary

December 25, 2009
Coco Chanel invented a fashion vocabulary

Located at 31 Rue Cambon, the apartment sits atop the Chanel boutique and couture salon, where models showed collections to prospective buyers. Today, the apartment is used for press interviews and Fashion shoots — and, of course, for haute couture clients, says Odile Babin, a Chanel archivist.
Coco Chanel invented a fashion vocabulary — camellias, the black dress, the double-C logo, the elongated octagon shape of the Chanel No. 5 perfume stopper — and she surrounded herself with these inspirations in her posh Paris apartment.
“In this apartment, you can [...]

Who is Your style icon? – 5 facts you should know about Coco Chanel

December 21, 2009
Who is Your style icon? - 5 facts you should know about Coco Chanel

1. She adored pockets! Coco Chanel was extremely enchanted with pockets. Pockets were the main focus of her designs in women handbags! Enchanting designs make them versatile for different women. Her Style bags exude a beauty of simplicity across time and space.
2. Little black dress  was designed by Coco Channel in 1920s. Today millions of women have such a dress in their wardrobes. Fashion observers believe it a “rule of fashion” that every woman must own a simple, elegant black  style dress. Edith Piaf wore a sheath dress [...]

The Temptation of Chanel Alluring Perfumes

November 8, 2009
The Temptation of Chanel Alluring Perfumes

Surely, Chanel perfume is the very last name in quality as well as Style making it amongst the most highly regarded of all branded perfumes. Moreover, there are limitations particularly in the third world countries where brand names are not as strictly protected as in the West.

Chanel gardenia perfume
Besides Chanel 5, Chanel gardenia is also known as a shining floral composition of perfume. The stylishness of this fragrance is outstanding. Gardenia was reformulated in the 1980s, in company with Bois des Iles and Cuir de Russie.
Chanel 5 perfume
Chanel [...]

The History of Chanel

October 28, 2009
The History of Chanel

The Fashion powerhouse was born in 1909, when the first shop was opened in Paris by Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, better known as Coco Chanel. From humble beginnings on the ground floor of the Balsan home, the shop soon moved to the Rue Cambon in Paris.
During the 1913 – 1917 period Chanel sold a variety of clothing, including women’s sportswear, blazers, skirts and sweaters. Her designs soon became popular for their simplicity.
In the 1920’s Coco Chanel literally revolutionized the fashion haute couture industry, by replacing the rigid “corset Style” [...]

KARL LAGEFELD’S CHANEL HANDBAGS

October 23, 2009
KARL LAGEFELD’S CHANEL HANDBAGS

Let’s look back upon the former works of our gramp, during Karl’s Spring/Summer 2009 collection, there is an interesting designer bag. Well, it’s true many famous designers or celebrities such as Paris Hilton have printed their own figures on the Chanel bags, and they are really well designed. But this one, I think it’s more ingenious.
I gotta say, I have to admit that by all accounts, he is everywhere… Teddy Bear, sporting goods, the Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel Handbags Brands owned by him etc. That guy, does [...]