Posts for March 9th 2010

Chanel

Chanel Fall 2010: All Faux Fur and Icebergs

>> For the six days leading up to the Chanel Fall 2010 show, Karl Lagerfeld had the thirty-five person team who sculpted The Ice Hotel in Sweden brought in to carve a 265-ton iceberg, also imported from Sweden, in the middle of the Grand Palais.
Chanel Fall 2010: All Faux Fur and Icebergs

>> For the six days leading up to the Chanel Fall 2010 show, Karl Lagerfeld had the thirty-five person team who sculpted The Ice Hotel in Sweden brought in to carve a 265-ton iceberg, also imported from Sweden, in the middle of the Grand Palais.  The room was chilled to 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and the iceberg was hidden from the audience under a large wooden box that mechanically rose when the show started.

Four models — Brad Kroenig, Baptiste Giabiconi, Abbey Lee Kershaw, and Freja Beha Erichsen (the latter two who are reportedly set to appear in the Chanel Fall 2010 campaign) — in furry yeti suits opened the display, "milling about in a daze" before dispersing, and giving way to a train of models sloshing through water from the melting iceberg; some even left shoes which came loose behind in their wake.

“Global warming is the issue of our times. Fashion has to address it,” Lagerfeld said afterward.  And fur was everywhere — boots, skirts, pants, bags — but all faux.  Karl said he went with faux fur for two reasons: first, Fendi does the best real furs and he doesn't want to compete, and second: “Technical advances are so perfect you can hardly tell fake fur from the real thing. Fake is not chic — we have got a new Chanel tweed to stop copies — but fake fur is.”
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Sarah Jessica Parker

Fashion in 50 Seconds 03/09/10 Sarah Jessica Parker's Chanel Ink, Jessica Stam For Vogue Turkey

Zoe Saldana's Givenchy Haute Couture gown was the most searched for dress post Oscars, followed by Miley Cyrus' Jenny Packham and Sandra Bullock's Marchesa, respectively.

Zoe Saldana's Givenchy Haute Couture gown was the most searched for dress post Oscars, followed by Miley Cyrus' Jenny Packham and Sandra Bullock's Marchesa, respectively.

Sarah Jessica Parker accessorized her Chanel Haute Couture Oscar dress with Peter Philips' limited edition temporary tattoos.

Former Aquascutum designers Michael Herz and Graeme Fidler will take the reigns at Bally.

Tom Binns is launching a handbag collection and collaborating with John Eshaya on t-shirts.

Jessica Stam will wear Giles Deacon on the cover of the first issue of Vogue Turkey.

Cathy Horyn "liked the Givenchy show a lot," and felt something "confident and personal" was missing from Celine.

Source: Getty

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen's Final Collection Presented Today in Paris

The last collection designed by Alexander McQueen before his death was shown this morning in a gilded salon at the headquarters of Francois Pinault.

The last collection designed by Alexander McQueen before his death was shown this morning in a gilded salon at the headquarters of Francois Pinault. Models walked slowly and solemnly in the sixteen looks to haunting operatic music. Tears welled in the eyes of more than a few spectators, as the audience took in the opulent, detailed McQueen creations with inspirations ranging from Byzantine art and Old Masters paintings to the wood carving and sculpture of Grinling Gibbons.

The show notes ended with the words: "Each piece is unique, as was he." Two days from now, retailers will be invited to purchase a showroom collection consisting of 160 pieces.

Lindsay Lohan

>> Lindsay Lohan Confirms She Is No Longer with Ungaro —Yesterday, when Lindsay Lohan was a no-show at Emanuel Ungaro, the label's owner noted backstage it was because she wasn't involved at all with the Fall 2010 collection.

>> Lindsay Lohan Confirms She Is No Longer with Ungaro —Yesterday, when Lindsay Lohan was a no-show at Emanuel Ungaro, the label's owner noted backstage it was because she wasn't involved at all with the Fall 2010 collection.  According to reports, Lohan was dismissed sometime this week, and yesterday in Kenzo's front row, she confirmed that she wasn't invited to the show “because I don’t work for them anymore.” When asked for more specifics, she replied: “There’s legal things going on; I can’t really discuss it.” [WWD]

Alexander McQueen

First Look: Lee Alexander McQueen's Last Collection for Fall 2010

>> Today began the appointment-only salon presentations of Lee Alexander McQueen's last collection in Paris.

>> Today began the appointment-only salon presentations of Lee Alexander McQueen's last collection in Paris. WWD reports: "A solemn parade of 15 showpieces in a gilded salon made for a moving viewing." The Moment adds: "The final Mcqueen show was breathtakingly beautiful. Filled with angels, religious references, and gilded wings." And Frida Gustavsson, who is taking part in the show, Tweeted, "Feeling so blessed and honored to be a part of the alexander mcqueen presentations today, celebration of a true genious, so beautiful so sad."