Marilyn Monroe makes a posthumous comeback with Chanel No.5

Almost 56 years after Marilyn Monroe famously quoted on her first cover of Life magazine- that she only wore Chanel No.5 to bed, Monroe has been posthumously appointed as the new face of Chanel No. 5. A newly found recording of her discussing the same with Marie Claire’s then-editor in chief Georges Belmont is being used in a new advertising campaign for the fragrance. The voice of Monroe will be accompanied by a photograph of her holding a scent bottle, taken by Ed Feingersh.

51 years after her death, Monroe can be heard saying – “They ask me: ‘What do you wear to bed? A pajama top? The bottoms of the pajamas? A nightgown?’ So I said, ‘Chanel No.5,’ because it’s the truth. And yet, I don’t want to say nude. But it’s the truth!”

 Chanel will roll out a print and TV campaign featuring Monroe later this fall. Monroe takes over the No. 5 reins from the fragrance’s former, Brad Pitt, who was paid a reported $7 million for his services for the brand. There is no word if Chanel is paying Monroe’s trust for use of her likeness.

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CHANEL No 5 IN A 30 OUNCE BOTTLE

 The most famous women’s fragrance ever made, the Chanel No.5, is now available, joy of joys, in a 30-ounce bottle priced at 3.200 Euro ($4,200).

This is probably enough to last for more than 2 years. Weighing at around two pounds, this limited edition bottle is dubbed the Grand Extrait edition. There’s also another Grand Extrait bottle available for purchase, containing 7.5 ounces of the precious perfume, with a lower price tag, of $2,100. The Grand Extrait bottle contains fragrance of the most “exceptional quality” according to Ruthie Vexler, the spokeswoman of Chanel. The bottle itself is reportedly delivered inside a “hand-assembled, artisan-crafted case”.

Furthermore, as Chanel officials describe, just very few of these bottles will be produced each year, therefore you’ll have to order yours rather quickly. There aren’t many details regarding the liquid though, but additional info will probably be provided during the following weeks.

Among those celebrities intimately tied to the Chanel No.5 there are Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman. In an even more impressive manner, Marilyn Monroe was asked what she wore to bed and she had famously and nicely replied “why, Chanel No.5, of course”. This is how famous and important this thingy is.

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Chanel Resort Collection For 2014

Coming straight from the Singapore Chanel resort collection for 2014 illuminated our faces with eternal elegance. Familiar by the high-fashion appearance and a doze of Karl's latest inspiration that he found in Singapore, this resort collection deliver to the Chanel's demanding worshipers extensive, compelling, modern, classy and absolutely luxury attire.

     

            

This attention drawing collection captures with it's mighty looks by offering wealthy designs with a handful of feminine details and elegant style. It indulges your savor and inspires your fashion sense with a taste of opulence. Just a glimpse of these gorgeous and completely diverse accents will reveal how rich and refined these outfits are. With a power to seduce some of the most spectacular and splendid looks captured my attention.

              

                  

 

Karl Lagerfeld's expense made this collection brightest not just because he moved with his team together with models to the wealthy and architecturally modern and bright Singapore, but because his collection didn't lack a thing. Everything from the stage to his latest offerings sparkled with richness, which continues to live up to the Gabrielle Chanel’s name.
            
            
Almost effortless but yet stunningly beautiful some of the dresses lighten up the runway, while being ornamented with inevitable Chanel long pearl necklaces. Plenty of refined outfits were enchanted with ravishing belts and fabulous cap-toe pumps known as a Chanel's trademark. Polished outfits come in black, white and beige hue's, but there are also examples of navy blue with styles perfectly made for a fancy poolside moment. Dresses and noticeable suits leave the impression of the unforgettable fortune that strikes anyone's attention.

      

Chanel avid fans will have plenty of reasons to mention this collection for days and this is just a glimpse of what awaits us in the next 2014 season. Karl Lagerfeld definitely knows how to flash an ultimate elegance, beauty and luxury without leaving anything undone. Perfect choices and uniquely created outfit's indulge this resort collection with great sense of taste that will appeal to the most fashion lustful admirers.
       

       
       
       

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Chanel « Première Tourbillon Volant »

Chanel « Première Tourbillon Volant »

La maison de luxe française Chanel présente la montre « Première Tourbillon Volant » pendant le salon Baselworld.

Imaginé en collaboration avec les maîtres-horlogers suisses de Renaud & Papi, ce modèle doté de hautes complications mécaniques a été conçu à l’occasion du 25e anniversaire de la première création horlogère de Chanel

Pour célébrer ce quart de siècle, la montre « Première Tourbillon Volant » s’habille d’un tourbillon – le dispositif qui permet d’améliorer la précision du garde-temps – stylisé en camélia, la fleur favorite de mademoiselle Chanel.

Accomplissant une rotation par minute, le Tourbillon Volant affiche un coeur pavé de diamants. La montre dispose également d’un mouvement mécanique à remontage manuel calibre « Tourbillon Volant Camélia », imaginé par Renaud & Papi en exclusivité pour Chanel.

Edité à seulement vingt exemplaires numérotés, ce modèle est pourvu d’une lunette en or blanc 18 carats.

Au total, la montre « Première Tourbillon Volant » est sertie de 101 diamants taille baguette et de 127 diamants taille brillant.

Etanche à 30 mètre, ce garde-temps dispose d’une réserve de marche de quarante heures, et d’un cadran en céramique noire polie. Le modèle est proposé avec un bracelet en alligator, noir ou satin noir.

Le prix de cette montre est fixé à 220.000 Euros.

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31, Rue Cambon

31 RUE CAMBON
THE STORY BEHIND THE FACADE

Dating back to the 18th century, rue Cambon was named after a famous French revolutionary elected to the National Convention, whose father was a fabric manufacturer.
The streets in this part of Paris were built after the French Revolution. In order to make way for them, the buildings of the Couvent de la Conception convent were demolished, leaving only the Notre Dame de l’Assomption church, which still stands to this day. The edifices erected subsequently were influenced by classicism, an architectural style characterized by purity of line, rigorous proportions, symmetry and horizontal divisions. They present smooth façades and a unified sense of volume.
In 1910, Gabrielle Chanel opened her hat shop, “Chanel Modes”, at Number 21 rue Cambon, in the center of Paris, only a stone’s throw from Place Vendôme and rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in the heart of a very fashionable part of town.
19th century writers such as Stendhal and Chateaubriand occasionally dwelled on rue Cambon, where Chanel would brush shoulders with renowned caricaturist George Goursat, also known as “SEM”. He created the first artistic rendering of perfume N°5.
As she quickly gained recognition for her talents as a hat-maker, Gabrielle decided that she needed larger premises. In 1918, she acquired the entire building at Number 31. It was here that she invented the concept of the modern boutique: in 1921, she began displaying fashion accessories and her first perfume (N°5) to wear with her garments and hats. Later, she added jewelry and beauty products.
Gabrielle Chanel claimed rue Cambon as her territory and arranged her 18th century building to suit her needs. The boutique occupied the ground floor, while the large reception room on the first floor was used to present her collections and hold fittings for Haute Couture dresses and suits. A stairway lined with mirrors led to her second-floor apartment, which was an intimately private realm filled with treasures. The third floor housed the studio, where Karl Lagerfeld works today, together with light-flooded workshops nestled below the rooftops. All of her activities, which included workshops for making jewelry, hats and sportswear, were united in this building, whose configuration has remained unchanged.
During the 1920s, Chanel expanded up the street and by 1927 she occupied five buildings on rue Cambon (Numbers 23 to 31).

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Chanel Surf - Place Vendôme

Boutique Chanel - 18,Place Vendôme

Chanel Surfboards

 The most expensive thing I bought recently was a $5000/Euro3865 Chanel surfboard. I'm using it as decor in my bedroom until I get really good at.

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Coco Chanel

Women’s wardrobes would be oh-so-cumbersome, not to mention boring, without the contributions of the great Parisian designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel.
Chanel gave us the little black dress, gaudy layers of pearls, and the fitted tweed suit. Most important, she popularized predecessor Paul Poiret’s early-1900s frocks that featured straighter silhouettes and shorter hemlines. These boyish pieces ultimately helped women do away with the corset.


That’s common fashionista knowledge.

But there’s much more that hasn’t been common knowledge about the bobbed, early-20th-century businesswoman, and it should make for a book chock-full of scandals and affairs. Hence, British author Lisa Chaney’s 400-plus-page tome, Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life.
In the book, Chaney pieces together lost letters and records, which the designer spent most of her life trying to hide, that retell her maudlin story and give substance to a lot of rumors about Chanel. But, while the story is juicy chick lit, the book is not. What this fact-heavy prose lacks is spice.
It takes a while, but we get Chaney’s point: Chanel was a style innovator, but it wasn’t a love of clothing that made this woman tick. It was fear. Fear that she’d lose control or, worse, the independence she so fiercely fought for.
Chanel was born in 1883, the illegitimate child of an unemployed French playboy and a severely depressed mother, and lost her parents when she was 12. She grew up in an orphanage run by nuns. You can imagine how restricted her fashion choices were.
Chanel’s life wasn’t easy, and at times, it was downright degrading. She spent her young adult life as a courtesan, an upscale prostitute. She entered high society as one of two mistresses of her first financial backer, socialite and horseman Etienne Balsan, whom she eventually left for an even richer Englishman, Arthur “Boy” Capel, after cheating on Balsan with Capel.
These stories are more scandalous than those on Real Housewives.
The forbidden liaisons helped Chanel establish herself early on as a high-society rule-breaker. Her transition from milliner – her first business was a hat shop – to designer helped her express revolutionary thoughts when it came to women.
Chanel was among the first upper-class women to ride horses for recreation and to play sports like polo, so her menswear-inspired clothing – featuring pockets and baggy fits – was as much a necessity as a fashion statement.
Chaney opens the book with Chanel walking through the Tuileries with Capel. She informs Capel, who is bankrolling her business, that she doesn’t need his help anymore. His response: “I thought I was giving you a plaything. What I gave you was your freedom.”
Soon after, Capel would leave her.
That was just one of Chanel’s numerous affairs followed by a debilitating broken heart. Men would cheat on their wives with her, then leave both her and the wife to marry somebody else. Subsequent dalliances included affairs with composer Igor Stravinsky, artist Pablo Picasso, and a German soldier during the Nazi occupation of France. Chaney raises the possibility of lesbian affairs, too.
Even with her astuteness, Chanel made some bad business decisions and was swindled out of the bulk of her profit from her iconic scent, Chanel No. 5. Despite her grand staircases and travels around the world with the most revered artists, she never managed to find happiness.
By the book’s end, Chanel has become a lonely and bitter woman who spends much of her time bashing fashion, especially the miniskirt. She said she found the mini vulgar and inappropriate, seemingly forgetting how she herself had popularized a shorter hemline in the early 20th century that freed women from Victorian prudery.
Through two World Wars, Chanel survived it all. That’s because, as Chaney puts it so well, Chanel owned the zeitgeist.
“The reason she is so often credited with initiating something, such as chopping off her hair or introducing short skirts, is because she had become the quintessence of high fashion,” Chaney writes. “She knew just when to make the change, and what she did was noticed and emulated.”
It’s unfortunate that Chanel’s fashion genius came at such a daunting price. The designer, who died in 1971, at 88, remains even now a dominating force in women’s fashion. But her personal life was far from triumphant.

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Are you in the know??

On trendhunter.com, I discovered some really fashionable sunglasses made of lace. Well, they're quite chichi and definitely not suitable for daily use, but a real looker!! The editorial with model Sophie Vlaming was shot by Marcin Tyszka and features fashion from Chanel, See by Chloé and Prada. Although the trend is quite unwearable, Sophie looks quite ravishing with her glaring red lips and the slinky outfit.

Kerin Rose's Barracuda glasses - $210

By the way: Did you know that the lace sunglasses already gained notoriety in 2009, when Rihanna showed up with a pair of lace sunglasses at the 2nd House of Hype Dinner? I didn't!! Anyway, I think the sunglasses are very Lady Gaga, aren't they?

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Fashion Cupcakes - more than tasty ♥

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Yummy! That looks delicious!

This is what thefrisky.com said about them:

"Fashion is addictive, and oftentimes insatiable. For those who need to satisfy their hunger, there are these fashion-inspired cupcakes created by photographer Therese Aldgard and food stylist Lisa Edsalv. Working with colors and themes from high-end designers, the team created sweets to suit the brands: Chanel features black frosting and white pearl adornments, Louis Vuitton is chocolate frosting with red roses, and Louboutin, is an appropriate red cake to mirror the soles of the shoes. Our favorite is naturally the Agent Provocateur-style, with vanilla frosting adorned with a pink tip to resemble nipples. You may not be able to find these treats for purchase, but looking at them is enough eye candy." [© thefrisky.com]

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