Tag: Gabrielle Chanel
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Lost glories of the Paris Ritz’s belle époque go under the hammer
It was a glamorous home-from-home to Proust, Hemingway and the beau monde. Now the hotel is auctioning off thousands of items from its luxurious past
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Lagerfeld retains Coco Chanel strengths in Paris fashion week spectacle
Late designer’s fierce elegance and formidable character represented in front of six 10m high waterfalls at Grand Palais
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Blés Vendôme, le jardin éphémère: Gad Weil for Les Blés de Chanel High Jewelry
Chanel and artist Gad Weil gave us the occasion to feel like Russel Crowe in the middle of an infinite wheat field in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000). To feel the grains in your arms is an incomparable daydreaming state of mind. The wheat fields in the Place Vendôme in Paris is a poetic installation…
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Top 10 amazing facts you didn’t know about Coco Chanel
London Fashion Week starts on Thursday so mark it by getting acquainted with fashion designer extraordinaire Coco Chanel, from her humble beginnings to her last words on her deathbed
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Karl Lagerfeld meets Coco Chanel: Wandering around the halls of new Mademoiselle Privé
Mademoiselle Privé at London’s Saatchi Gallery – an immersion into the origins of Chanel’s creations. A new exhibition aims to capture the charismatic personality and irreverent spirit of Mademoiselle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld. From October 13 through November 1, Karl Lagerfeld and CHANEL present an enchanted journey through the Chanel’s creativity. The “Mademoiselle Privé” exhibition…
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The truth is never as obvious as what it might appear to be: a revelation for luxury brand through the lens of Gabrielle Chanel
This study is not a biography of Gabrielle Chanel, whose life story everyone has probably read about in different places. Rather, it is an account of how an intuitive brand manager brilliantly wielded the resources at her disposal in line with the social, cultural, ideological,and philosophical norms at that particular time, whether intentionally or not,…