Chanel Haute Couture Spring Summer 2010 Making Of

Chanel Spring Summer 2010 Haute Couture Collection

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Chanel Easy Rider Hits The Rue Royale

Last friday Karl Lagerfeld decided that the Rue Royale will be the decor of the Starting Point Pre-Printemps 2010 Collection Press kit. Anyone passing by the Chanel boutique on Rue Royale could have seen Lara Stone and Baptiste Giacobini cavorting around an eye-popping prop: A motorcycle customized for Chanel in Toulouse, France, and reminiscent of the low rider Marlon Brando piloted in “The Wild Ones.”

Chanel Paris Venice Cruise 2010 Collection

5 years ago Karl Lagerfeld decided to take the Chanel Pre-Collections to another level by showing these collections the way it deserved to be shown. The idea was to give the collections a ‘travel spirit’, beginning with Paris Tokyo for the Pre-Fall 2005 collection.

After showing past Cruise collections in New York’s Grand Central Station, Santa Monica, and Miami from 2006-09 respectively, Karl transported us to Venice to discover more than just a collection.

On May 15th, 2009,  Karl brought the house of Chanel to Venice to present its Cruise 2010 collection at the venerable and exclusive Lido beach Hotel Excelsior. Karl  is not shy to draw inspiratation from Venetian and Baroque styles, as was seen in past seasons such as the Haute Couture F/W ‘90 and ‘93 collections.

More importantly, Venice was an inspiration for Gabrielle Chanel, whom in love with all that this unique city has to offer: museums, somptuous churches. She was particularly seduced by the Byzantine gold adorning Saint Mark’s Basilica.

Characterizing the city’s essence and infusing it into Chanel elegance, Karl Lagerfeld truly delivered on a promise of a Paris meets Venice collection. Venetian masquearde masks modernized with a pair of Chanel sunglasses, while Carnaval harlequin prints and ‘voile‘ lions printed dresses. The lion the symbol of Venice and Mademoiselle’s birth sign. The Lion of Saint Mark is the emblem and the protector of Venice. Lions are everywhere in the cientrance to the Arsenal, on the Porta della Carta.

Looking at this collection, one cannot help but feel that this Paris-Venice show continued a conversation that Karl started with the Paris Moscou Fall 08/09 Collection . It’s as if thought Karl Lagerfeld wanted to share more of Gabrielle Chanel’s history to make us better understand her inspiration and her choices.

We have the same impression watching this new collection inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s travels in the 30’s.  Lagerfeld’s collection recalls Visconti’s stylised films and Venice’s sparkling society of the 1930s. Fabrics were inspired by the rich Venetian reds of the Renaissance, Fortuny’s prints, and the chiaroscuro technique of the great Italian masters.

A “Who’s Who” of international press made it to the event, such as French Vogue’s Carine Roitfeld and Emmanuelle Alt, Vogue Italia’s Franca Sozzani, Jefferson Hack and Model Anouck Lepere among others.

Venetians such as the Countess Brandino Brandolini and the Count and Countess Luca Marzotto were also Karl Lagerfeld’s guests.

Celebrities such as Rinko Kikuchi, Vittoria Puccini, Olivia Magnani, Caroline Sieber, Kasia Smutniak also trekked out to see the collection on the cool Venetian sands.

French actress and Chanel “ambassadoress” Anna Mouglalis was wearing a beige dress from Paris-Moscow 2008/9 collection with spectacular Chanel Fine jewelry “Franges” earrings  in white gold 18 karat and 82 diamonds.

Kasia Smutniak was wearing a classic little black dress from the RTW Spring Summer 2009 collection.

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Lily Allen for Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld is surprising everyone by choosing again a new personality for his next Chanel handbag campaign. After Jerry Hall , here comes Lily Allen. “We have a great relationship with Lily” confessed Lagerfeld, who plans to turn his lens on the British pop star next week. There is no words yet on if this campaign will be shoot in Vermont like the Chanel Spring Summer 2009 campaign.

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Mary-Kate Special Date

You Loved It You Won’t Have It

The news is fresh from Chanel Paris, the sensational Chanel 2.55 Clear Case that we saw at the Fall Winter 2009 Show won’t be produced.

Chanel Sponsors Royal Costume Show at Versailles

This a premiere in France, Versailles is hosting for the first time in more than two centuries,the most sumptuously dressed court of Europe.

Chanel sponsors the exhibition.

“Fastes de Cour & Cérémonies Royales” (“Court Pomp & Royal Ceremony”) retraces European court costumes from 1650 to 1800 and opens to the public today. The exhibition, which runs through June 28.

In his foreword to the exhibition catalogue, Karl Lagerfeld notes that even the French court, “the most brilliant and imitated in the world,” went into debt to retain universal admiration. “Nothing was too beautiful, or too expensive,” the designer points out.

You will not see any wardrobes  from Queen Marie Antoinette neither from Kings Louis XIV, XV and XVI. We believe that all the wardrobe left has been maybe destroyed when the revolution took over in 1789.

The influence of the French monarchy expanded in Europe, Germany, Russia, Vienna, Denmark and Sweden  were able to keep their  royal attire, furniture and accoutrements.

The pieces will be displayed alongside official portraits of their original owners and drawings. It is also the first time pieces of crown jewelry have been included in an exhibition of court costume, the better to illustrate the luster of the court of Versailles. We have no information on yes or no the jewelry displayed will be the original or duplicate.

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Lagerfeld Confirms: He is Still Doing It

Despite all the rumors after seing the recent cutbacks and also the Paris-Moscou Show being held in Paris and not in Moscow. Chanel is still going ahead with that Cruise show in Venice that has been rumored since last June. Will it be on one of the Venise Castle? on a boat? According to a IMG Fashion Representative, it will be less expensive to held the show in Venise than in any other spaces in Paris, even with the cost of flewing his crew. Karl Lagerfeld recently bought a house on Lake Champlain in Vemont because it was cheaper to do the photoshoot buying the house than doing it in studio. Chanel already presented on the Seine in Paris for their Cruise 1997 collection.

Chanel Unveils Latest Campaign for No.5

The new Chanel No. 5 fragrance-campaign commercials starring Audrey Tautou and model Travis Davenport were shot by Jean-Pierre Jeunet with a crew of 250 all over France and Istanbul for three weeks. Almost five years since Baz Luhrmann and Nicole Kidman united in what was allegedly the costliest advertisement ever, Chanel will unveil the next mini-movie in the No.5 saga, featuring the quintessentially French duo of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his leading lady, Audrey Tautou. Taking the theme of missed encounters between strangers, the commercial depicts doe-eyed Tautou and strapping model Travis Davenport en route from Paris to Istanbul aboard the Orient Express. The two-minute-and-25-second ad breaks on the Internet on May 5 — 88 years to the day that Coco Chanel first introduced No.5, which went on to become the world’s best-selling scent. A product in the No.5 portfolio is sold every six seconds, according to Chanel.

An opportunity for Chanel to seduce the younger crowd with the young and fresh Audrey Tautou’s image.

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