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One walking be the Printemps department store in Paris will be admired by Chanel dolls installed at the displays. Lovely dolls were inspired by Chanel Paris-Moscou collection and really represent the russian spirit.

Princess Nadejda and Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich – the two marionettes are wearing miniature pieces frm Paris-Moscou collection.

The installation is continued by hand-painted matryoshka dolls, 5 meters tall each.

To see matryoshkas by Chanel is a very exclusive opportunity and it happends once in a lifetime. I like them so much!

D.K.

Merry Christmas and everything fashionable to all of you!

Oh, that is so cute! This AD is funny and nice. You do already want such a helmet, don’t you?

The helmet company is joining forces with the Karl Lagerfeld brand to inaugurate its “Multiples” collectors helmets in editions of 12. The coming together of Les Ateliers Ruby founder Jerome Coste and Karl Lagerfeld led to the creation of the motorcycle helmets featured in the Karl Lagerfeld Autumn/Winter 2009-10 Collection.

Remember the show? It was great and futuristic. Karl always thinks about the future, but never about the past.

Sometines I can’t think of something more feminine and sophisticated than bows. When I do think about bows in fashion first of all I see Chanel’s spring-summer 2008 show with a huge black bow on the runway. It was stunning, it was like a miracle and staying one of my favorites shows ever it makes its point in love for bows.

Flowing or hardly fixed they look gorgeous. You can put them the way you like and make a belt or a pin, put a really big one on your dress or hide it by transforming one of the parts into the dress as it has been made at Moschino and Lanvin shows.

If you think about it deeply you’ll realize that a bow was never out of fashion. At some point there were obviously too much of a bow, that some women looked ridiculous in outfits covered with huge and tiny bows. Still they remain fashionable and even this season with its big-shoulder jackets, platform heels and lots of leather clothes.

You can find bows in D&G, Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Moschino, Moschino Cheadp&Chic, Chanel and some other designers’ collections.

She’s been modeling over 20 years for now, and as soon as she realized that she doesn’t need even to look in a mirror to find out how her make-up looks like because she knows how it feels like on her, she wants others to feel her that way too.

Kate Moss, who has always been one of the most scandal, most outsatanding, beautiful and wanted models in the world at some point decided to become a part of inner luxury world, not just being a face showing luxury things to people. Deciding to make statement, to make others feel her the way she does herself and to become a part of innner world she signed license agreement with Coty (fragrance corporation that works with over 20 other famous labels) in 2007. If you want to understand Kate you have smell like Kate.

This year she launches her Vintage perfume that will be a part of chic, a part of modern girls and a part of Kate’s strong character. Same time it’s about Kate’s passion for vintage clothes which she’s been collecting since her teenage.

More or less Kate Moss became not only a brand name, but also an outstanding person who can really put together all her thoughts and ideas and come up with the real luxury product. That’s how it does really work. One day you appear on the AD boards in skinny jeans and nothing else, then you disappear for a while because of your drug addict and after all you’re taking your full success by coping with everything and starting to live a real grown-up life. Godd girl! What do I have to say more about Kate?

Scarlett Johansson is taking over Dolce&Gabbana fragrances The One, Rose The One and L’eau The One.

Together with new Rose The One fragrance, Scarlett collaborated on three campaigns with director Jean-Baptiste Mondino and designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.

Compared to Dolce&Gabbana Cosmetics Ad campaign with Scarlett these video and shots look amazing, especially in classy The One video. She looks sexy, stylish and fresh. This is the actual Dolce&Gabbana style.

While politicians and ecomists are trying to solve regional economic problems to cope with crisis, consumers all over the world are coping with crisis themselves by shopping. It’s an ackward, but it works, especially for such companies as Hermes whose audience was never close to millions of people.

Hermes sales expanded by 10% at current exchange rates and by nearly 5% at constant exchange rates in the third quarter. 13% down at constant exchange rate compared to June (22%) was smaller.

In order not to bore with numbers and efficiency, it’s better to sum up and tell the main figures that shows the results. Sales for the nine months ended 30 September came to €1,327.1m. Compared to the first nine months of 2008 there’s been a 1.4% growth this year. Sales generated by the Group’s stores advanced by 10% at constant exchange rates, driven by growth in all regions other than Japan (down 7%). It seems unexpected because Asia is one of the biggest markets for luxury companies these days. More or less Japan differs form all other countries in Asia. That’s why the rest of Asia marked impressive growth (35%). It’s explained by expansion in China and Korea where Hermes actively developed its distribution network.

Ironic, the region (Asia) which provides the world with the biggest part of counterfeit products now bits the rest of the world with rise in real luxury sales.

you can find the detailed financial information at  hermes.com

“Chanel’s Russian Connection” is a new book by Karl Lagerfeld that will be released on November, 30 2009. Even though there is Chanel name in the book title it definately shows Lagerfeld’s connection to Russia or his passion to Russia, I would say.

The album shows the process of Paris-Moscou collection creation by Metiers d’Arts – 7 ateliers that were recreated in 2002 on Lagerfeld’s initiative. These ateliers are the best in costume jewellery, millinery, shoes creating and embroidery, which they provide all couture houses with. Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris-Moscou collection for Chanel shows Karl’s view on Russia with all its Imperial period and Constructivism, Catherine The Great and Faberge, folklore and  Coco Chanel’s love to Russia with the Ballets Russes and her relationship with Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich.

Karl Lagerfeld once said that he could show lots of his imagination because he had never been to Russi before. As French would say “Karl est tres modeste”, because who is not the one who has lack of imagination. Paris-Moscou collection proves that Karl is all about fantasy and fairy-tale. “Chanel’s Russian Connection” will show on photos the whole process of collection creation, even the fitting in Chanel’s apartment  on rue Cambon. It’s interesting to mention that all models were russian. Karl is right once again – nobody can show russian beauty better than russin girls can do it.

The book will be released together with “Coco 1913 – Chanel 1923″ on DVD.

One of the most beloved Lagerfeld’s models Claudia Schiffer is making new Chanel ad campaign.

She’s been Chanel’s face in 2008 and she’s also was involved in many Lagerfeld’s shootings for Dom Perignon staring as sexy housekeeper. This time for Chanel she is playing some young latin girl in a big hat and school jacket.

To make an ad Lagerfeld and all his assistance went to Argantina. San-Telmo – a place for the shoot was chosen in the center of Buenos-Aires.

Claudia looks lie a very young lovely girl. I admire a lot her capability to make so different impression on the pictures.

When I see spring-summer 2009 Tom Ford eyewear campaign I enjoy the felling of happiness, I’m thrilled. Mostly, it’s because of shimmering make-up created by Regina Harris. Her love to disco and shining element in make-up is not always at the right place while in this case there couldn’t be anything more suitable.

Fall-winter 2009-2010 Tom Ford eyewear camapaign is definately sexy and represents Tom Ford’s style better, but it doesn’t awake any emotions. It’s very trite, especially for winter.

Giorgio Armani launches his third mobile phone coopting with Samsung. The firsr two weren’t that impressive, especially when you realize that his touch-phone is a copy to Prada phone made on LG platform. The new one Giorgio Armani phone is a total surprise for me. With all my respect to mister Armani and his significant role in the world of fashion, he’d better find a better company for making his brand-name phones or stop doing it at all.

It’s obvious that this haute couture phone is copied fron Nokia N97 phone which was released recently. Take a look.

Whatever name is written on the phone the disgn and technology of it stolen from Nokia, so I’d better have original Nokia phone than fahe Armani-Samsung one.

Have you seen new Ralph Lauren AD Campaign which represents skinny model Filippa Hamilton? What’s wrong with the image is that model’s body is retouched to unexisting in a real world proportion of body where head is bigger than waist. First to mention unproportioned Barbie-like Hamilton’s body was Boing Boing blog which lately was atacked by letters form Ralph Lauren lawyers.

Ralph what is wrong with you? Can you see that you’ve made a beautiful woman look ugly? After all how can you fire a person for saying that you retouched her badly, and it’s actually true… I can’t believe that a person can associate himself with America cutting off american values trying to shut up people and making models look ugly on their ad campaigns. Ralph said that Hamilton is not the right proportioned for his clothes. Than he’d better start sewing Barbie costumes because nobody in the real world looks like that.

As it is very fashionable to have your own label of clothes, perfume, accessories, it seems that almost every celebrity has one. So, the news that Paris Hilton is broadening her label and launches sunglasses and swimming clothes line were not surprising at all.

But here I have just one question – how much does her mane cost? The price of her products is aimed to teenagers or fans, and the price is not high. But this price includes all the expenses on boutiques and advertisements and it also includes a part for her name. Actually, I think it’s the biggest issue in forming the price. No any misunderstfnding, but why does someone needs those cheap plastic sunglasses to appear on the market? Isn’t Paris busy enough with her dogs and pink sport cars? Why does she need to be a designer? Hopefully she’s even going to do some design degree at least in Instituto Marangoni.

Christian Louboutin wrote a sceenplay and directed his first short movie “Psycho-logic” for the opening of his boutique in Hollywood. Film starts with some Hitchcock-type thriller and then goes to a fairytale type travel to Christian Louboutin’s store. Girl reaches her fantasy choosing between many of shining shoes . The imression is filled by soundtrack created by Mika specially for this movie.

Christian Louboutin as a wizard looks weird in a way, though we had to get used to it on Christian Louboutin website. Green clouds of magical smoke together with evil green eyes are scaring enough to think about Louboutin as someone who makes kind magic, while his shoes are literally kind at least to your own legs.

What else should we meet from Louboutin? There have already been glasses for champagne and boxes for french macarons. A big movie following Tom Ford maybe?

One of biggest worldwide publiching houses Conde Nast closes 4 of its magazines. Some critics tell that this is only the beginning of huge slow down in publishing business. The reason for such firm actions is economic crisis, which caused constant reduction of magazines’ circulation and huge drop in income from advertising sector.

Unfortunately, but one of the oldest food magazines Gourmet comes into fourth. many people don’t stop writing to Conde Nast main office to save the magazine. may be it will work out. But another 3 will be closed without any doubt – Cookie, Elegant Bride amd Modern Bride.

Whatever readers would say it won’t cause any action. Really for any publishing house is better to open the magazine once again when they have money for it when constantly suffer losses. Nor the will to save magazines, nor unemployed people (counting to 180) will stop the process. from any point of view publishing business has to be profitable. In other case they stop to publish.