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Cara Delevingne and Pharrell for Chanel’s latest short film

November 25, 2014 by The CoF

“Reincarnation” is the latest Chanel film signed by Karl Lagerfeld that tells the story of the birth of the famous Chanel jacket .Starring Cara Delevingne, ethereal as Sissi in an Austrian castle with Pharrell Williams as her royal knight, playing Franz Joseph. And with a leap in time the story takes us to 1954, to an episode in the life of Coco Chanel: when the fashion designer, on vacation in Austria, was enchanted by a jacket worn by the lift attendant at her hotel. That […]

Categories: Culture, Fashion • Tags: Austria, Cara Delevingne, Chanel, Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Pharrell Williams

Harper’s Bazaar Spain July/August 2014 celebrates Richard Avedon

June 20, 2014 by The CoF

Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s July/August 2014 issue celebrates 70 years of Richard Avedon and Harper’s Bazaar collaboration with four collectible covers. A collaboration that made history and created some of the most recognizable images in the fashion industry. This year marks seven decades since Richard Avedon started to collaborate for the first time with Harper’s Bazaar. Marks, also, ten years since his death on October 2004 while working tireless in San Antonio (Texas). The magazine remembers the artist in the best way, with four covers […]

Categories: Celebrities, Fashion, Magazines, Photography • Tags: Audrey Hepburn, August 2014, Brigitte Bardot, Coco Chanel, Elizabeth Taylor, Harper's Bazaar Spain, July 2014, Richard Avedon

Gabrielle Chanel pictured in 1954 on the staircase at Rue Cambon. Photo by Courtesy Photo

“The Return” another project dedicated to the iconic Coco Chanel

November 19, 2013 by The CoF

The 30-minute film entitled “The Return,” dedicated to the comeback of Coco Chanel in the fashion Olympus in 1954 , is ready to be released . Location of the short film was the famous salon on Rue Cambon, where Coco once held her fashion show to celebrate her return. The atmosphere recreated for the shooting by Lagerfeld gather a crowd of models and actors to impersonate the famous faces of that time : Coco Chanel played by Geraldine Chaplin,hairstylist Sam McKnight […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Coco Chanel, Heidi Mount, Karl Lagerfeld, Marlene Dietrich, Paris-Dallas Métiers d’Art, Rupert Everett

CHANEL N° 5 , A visual history

September 10, 2013 by The CoF

1957 – Suzy Parker by Richard Avedon source: glossynewsstand.com and youtube.com

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, Video • Tags: advertising, Brad Pitt, Carole Bouquet, Catherine Deneuve, Chanel, Coco Chanel, History, Nicole Kidman, Photography

“Inside Chanel” first chapter : COCO

September 10, 2013 by The CoF

The fashion house Chanel introduced the first of five films series “Inside CHANEL” , each will be released this week (one film per day). In the first video called “Coco” (Coco) we see a black-and-white collages, within a few minutes the author tells the story of the success of Gabrielle Chanel, starting every sentence with the phrase Once upon a time. The narrative touches all milestones in the life of Coco, her childhood, parents, her love and hard way: “Once […]

Categories: Fashion, People, Video • Tags: Arts, Chanel, Coco Chanel, Gabrielle Chanel, inspiration, Women

French Style by Bérénice Vila Baudry

April 10, 2013 by The CoF

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only,” Coco Chanel once said. “Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” And here it is another book to celebrate the country’s best—innovations from universal human rights to the bikini, philosophical and literary luminaries from the Enlightenment to Existentialism, gastronomic delights and Nouvelle Vague cinema. With dynamic photographs juxtaposing concepts from haute couture and scientific advancements to pop stars […]

Categories: Fashion, People • Tags: Bérénice Vila Baudry, books, Coco Chanel, culture, France, French Style, Haute couture

The Secret Behind The Chanel Jacket

March 15, 2013 by The CoF

The secret behind the Chanel jacket is that it’s actually a men’s jacket… As a symbol of Chanel’s style and elegance, the jacket takes its place as one of the House’s icons. Endlessly desirable and reinvented with each season, its modernity and apparent simplicity make it an indispensable item in any woman’s wardrobe. Conceived by Mademoiselle Chanel in the 1950s and inspired by Austrian jackets for men, this tailored jacket, when combined with a skirt reaching just below the knee line, became […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Chanel, Coco Chanel, Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Mademoiselle Chanel, Paris, The Jacket

Gabrielle Coco Chanel’s Apartment

March 10, 2013 by The CoF

source vogue.com.au

Categories: Architecture, Design • Tags: Coco Chanel, Fashion, Home and Garden, Paris

Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland

December 17, 2012 by The CoF

As fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, she wrote the popular “Why Don’t You?” feature, which inspired two New Yorker parodies and endless imitations. She also suggested the iconic Popover to Claire McCardell and helped put the designer on the map. As editor in chief of Vogue, she celebrated the youthquake of the Sixties and pushed editorial fashion fantasy further than it had ever gone before. As special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum, she transformed traditionally dull museum shows of clothes […]

Categories: Beauty, Book, Design, Fashion • Tags: Carmel Snow, Claire McCardell, Coco Chanel, Daisy Fellowes, Diana, Diana Vreeland, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue

The Quotable Diana Vreeland

December 17, 2012 by The CoF

Diana Vreeland in Paris in 1971 – Photo By Christian Avril Diana Vreeland was articulate and witty, with an unusual gift for the unexpected, striking aphorism (“Pink is the navy blue of India”; “Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola”; Coco Chanel “had the expression of a baby bull dressed like a Russian sailor”; “As you know, a well-kept invalid lasts forever.”) She said, in creating a magazine or a museum show, “I’m looking for something else. I’m […]

Categories: Beauty, Fashion, People • Tags: Chris Ware, Coco Chanel, Diana Vreeland, Elsa Maxwell, Harper's Bazaar, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Vogue