Spring-Summer 2012
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April 5th, 2012
By Olivia da Costa
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POLAROIDS
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March 20th, 2012
By Olivia da Costa
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(Last updated : Tuesday, March 20th, 2012)
FALL-WINTER 2012/13
BY OLIVIA DA COSTAPhoto session after the show
Zhou Xun captured by Olivia da Costa at 31 rue Cambon -
March 16th, 2012
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(Last updated : Friday, March 16th, 2012)
MAKING OF “THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET”
“The Chanel jacket has become the symbol of a certain elegance, feminine, with an air of nonchalance, classic and timeless, that is of all times,” said Karl Lagerfeld in Paris after the photo shoot of the book The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld.*
The photo shoot took place in Cannes, in the south of France, in New York and ended in Paris at the studio 7L.
For this project the designer gathered more than a hundred celebrities. Actors, artists, singers, rock stars… Sarah Jessica Parker, Georgia May Jagger, Alice Dellal, Maïwenn, Laetitia Casta, Virginie Ledoyen or Akuol of Mabior, all wore the little black jacket their own way.
* Available in bookstores from Fall 2012, the book will accompany the opening of an exhibition dedicated to it, which will run from March 24th until April 15th 2012 in Tokyo.
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March 15th, 2012
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(Last updated : Thursday, April 12th, 2012)
BOY CHANEL CAMPAIGN
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March 8th, 2012
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FASHION APPLICATION UPDATE
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February 14th, 2012
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FEBRUARY 14TH
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February 8th, 2012
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(Last updated : Friday, March 16th, 2012)
THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET
Through over a hundred photographs, Karl Lagerfeld pays tribute to Chanel’s little black jacket.
Created during the fifties by Mademoiselle Chanel, the jacket has been endlessly reinvented by Karl Lagerfeld in each of his collections ever since 1983, for the most part, in the fundamental Chanel colour: black.
In the book The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld*, the jacket is being adapted and worn differently by some of today’s personalities in contemporary culture : slipped on by the French singer, Vanessa Paradis, transformed into a headdress for the American actress, Sarah Jessica Parker, or adapted to Alice Dellal’s neo-punk look – this fashion masterpiece can adapt to any style.
Karl Lagerfeld has chosen to capture the jacket‘s versatility in a series of photographs taken in close collaboration with Carine Roitfeld. The book will accompany the opening of an exhibition dedicated to it, which will run from 24th March until 15th April 2012 in Tokyo.
From March 24th to April 15th 2012
11AM – 7PM from Monday to Friday
11AM – 8PM Saturday and Sunday
Free entrance
G-Bldg, Minami Aoyama
Minami Aoyama 5-4-48
Minato Ku, Tokyo* Available in bookstores from Fall 2012
Photo: Saskia de Brauw photographed by Karl Lagerfeld
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January 19th, 2012
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(Last updated : Wednesday, February 8th, 2012)
STUDIO CHANEL E-BROCHURE
Photography and film by Karl Lagerfeld
Spring-Summer 2012 Pre-collection -
January 5th, 2012
By Jean-Louis Froment
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(Last updated : Monday, January 9th, 2012)
ART TRANSPORTS TIME AND WITH IT,
ITS STORIES AND LEGENDS
BY JEAN-LOUIS FROMENTChanel’s time would never have existed without the Parisian artistic brilliance in which Gabrielle Chanel lived.
Painters, musicians, poets, choreographers, photographers and filmmakers were all part of her life sharing the same creative spirit. Very early on, she understood the highly demanding nature of artists, their tenacity to give form to their thought and above all, to challenge time: to produce a body of work around one’s difference.The five themes of this exhibition – Origin, Abstraction, Invisibility, Liberty and Imaginary – go deeply into the historical background of the values of CHANEL, striking a chord with the fundamentals of the life story of its creator.
Here, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, precious objects, rare documents, fashion designs, perfumes and jewelry come together to reveal a unique landscape made of secrets, sentiment and inventions: a cabinet of curiosities that would have had the shamelessness to open itself up and where art has nothing more to say than what exists in its close relationship to the objects revealed.
Thus, the works become a wise, sensitive and sometimes unexpected contemporary companion to the imaginary element within Gabrielle Chanel’s creations. From a cubist cut up to the construction of a garment, from a musical score to a perfume, from a poem to a piece of jewelry; all these are part of a complete, historical and cultural creation.
Together they constructed a story, transmitted messages, never ceased airing their points of view, exchanged their languages, strived for a new set of aesthetics, invented new freedoms, grasped, marked, designated and projected a future, to which they measured up, and became the irreversible signs of a unique historical and cultural experience that was missing in the world.
Preface of the book “Culture Chanel”. Published for the exhibition in Beijing that was curated by Jean-Louis Froment, this trilingual edition in French, English and Chinese is available at the Éditions de La Martinière, Abrams and Artron.
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November 30th, 2011
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(Last updated : Wednesday, November 30th, 2011)
CHRISTMAS 2011 E-BROCHURE
