LA*SURFPUNK THE MEN'S STORE: CHANEL

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Monday, March 15, 2010

SAY WHAT?

CHANEL sent out this presser to squelch any rumors that Kommander Karl is going to be replaced:

Please note that Karl Lagerfeld is the Creative Designer of CHANEL and has a long-term contract with the company. Replacing him is not an issue.

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

POLAR ATTRACTION

ICE ICE BABY:

As we mentioned earlier, the Chanel show had its own body of water complete with an imported iceberg. A set created with snow and ice. The temperature was kept to -4 degrees celsius.

The signature look for Chanel this F/W 2010, iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld created a faux fur similar to that of polar bears: shaggy. He made long coats, pants and boots (knee highs and gaiters) showcasing the synthetic fabric.

Unkle Karl also infused the collection with real wearable pieces: fuzzy tweeds, knits and snowy white sweaters, some made into dresses. A white dress with school girl collar stood out. Black tweed skirts and blouses furnished with a black menswear-like tie kept things polished. Skirt length was a standard mid-thigh. He ended the show with long dresses in that ivory Chanel signature color and yards of lace and tulle.

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BRAD'S BACK

Brad Kroenig is BACK!!!

Kaiser Karl didn't kick our BeeBoo to the curb... completely.

The faithful (10+ years he's worked for KL) model of Karl Lagerfeld's stable of bois surfaced at the designer's RTW A/W 2010 show for Chanel.

The blond is looking beautiful as ever.

God we missed you, Gorgeous.

So can you kiss all that Neiman's work goodbye??

UNKLE KARL: KOLD SNAP

Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld imported a 265-ton iceberg via Sweden for an authentic setting.

He showcased his F/W 2010 amidst the winter wonderland.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

FOOTBALL FANTASY

CHANEL COVERAGE:

$175.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

TAG TEAM

A NEW YORK VIBE:

The Chanel store on Spring Street was tagged.

Police were able to apprehend the suspect: a kid!!, and place him in the squad car.

We actually like it. It brings window display to another level. Very Punk. Anarchy-ish. And much to his chagrin, we think Unkle Karl would like it too. He's very rebel with his fingerless leather gloves and goth/punk way of dressing.

He is always looking for new marketing ways to rebrand and advertise the Chanel label. This it. HE MIGHT CONSIDER HIRING THIS KID!!

We're tagging our offices as we type. Ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

DESIGNER SLOPES

Hit the trails in Chanel.

The fashion house has poles and goggles too, natch!!

Saturday, January 9, 2010

TATTED UP

GHETTO BLASTERS:

It's NO secret that we love our surf studs with SOME, not all overboard and shit, INK and if they are by Chanel -- THE BETTER!!

All you studs can go to the Chanel boutiques starting in March and acquire the temporary tattoo transfers. We hear that a sheet with a set of 55 tattoos will be available for about $98 dollars.

If you're in the UK, availability will be found at the Selfridge's counter as well.

If you have any friends good at hemp art, that would be the cheapest to mimic!!

We're calling the Chanel store in BH to get on that wait list ASAP!!

Monday, November 16, 2009

BLACK AND WHITE

THE PRINTED WORD:

Karl Lagerfeld is penning and editing an in-house Chanel magazine.

The title is 31 Rue Cambon, after the first boutique.

Unkle Karl is working with Purple's Olivier Zahm on this effort.

Image via purplediary

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

ANIMAL FARM

Design genius Karl Lagerfeld took to the farm for the Chanel Spring 2010.

Kaiser Karl had a giant barnyard constructed in the Grand Palais-- complete with hay and a mock stage. The barn had the logo branded. We want that barn!!

There was no way you could miss Lagerfeld's male muse Baptsite Giabiconi. We feel bad for Brad Kroenig, we loooooove Brad.

TREND ALERT:

We're gay, we don't follow rules: like this is for girls, this is for boys. We adopt and make it our own!!!

Softer colors for spring in neutrals: beige, ivory, caramels, taupes and ecrus -- get your jackets and buttondowns in these colors. Find a racer leather jacket in a light caramel. One red item-- red Lacoste or red Converse wear it with said jacket.

The iconic pieces (like the nubby tweed jacket) were mixed with ivory and black; rough textures; transparency and lace. Like the first image, find your own Chanel tweed jacket (the Hawaii Chanel store sells Mens) and mix it with a black and white print shirt and a tank top underneath that.

You can always take the high heel boot and reinterpret that with a chunky black motorcycle boot. Find some vintage Girbaud jeans, roll them up, crisp white shirt, black blazer --- viola, you're parroting the second image.

What to look for: homespun couture skills-- hopsack to basket weave and cane work to aprons; peasant poppy prints-- look for that in a shirt to wear under a jacket.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

CHANEL A GO-GO

SKIDMARKS ON MY DESIGNER HEART

As Unkle Karl readies to shoot his pre-Spring campaign, the creative genius had a Chanel motorcycle engineered.

Lagerfeld has titled the Spring campaign aptly Starting Point.

Friday, May 1, 2009

DOWNGRADING CHANEL!!!

What is Unkle Karl smoking? Is he becoming senile? Is he losing his vision (physically and metaphorically)?

He picked some retched rotting "singer" as the new face for his Chanel brand.

eeeeeccccckkkkk!!!

THIS CUNT IS RETCHED

WE RECOMMEND TO ALL: NOT TO BUY FROM THE LABEL UNTIL THIS CONTRACT IS OVA OF THIS NASTY DISGUSTING VILE "SINGER!!"

Monday, April 27, 2009

DOES CHANEL MAKE MOTOR CARS???

We wish....

This a magnificent creation from a car designer, Jinyoung Jo, at Hong-ik University in South Korea.

What a beautiful concept: linking the black and white signature colors of the House of Chanel, its logo and what car companies care about airflow into one sleek dynamic package.

Are there options? Beige and navy. Can we get the car in a quilted metal? How about icons kind of lightly transferred on the car's body: camellia flower icon, clover icon, pump icon, double c icon, quilted purse icon??

UNKLE KARL hire Jinyoung ASAP and you could bring in Lapo Elkann as the financier for Chanel Fiole.

CHANEL MOTOR CARS

we likey......

Friday, April 10, 2009

UNKLE KARL MAKES SHORT SILENT ABOUT LE COCO

It was made to commemorate the legendary designer's life and shown before his pre-fall 2009 show.

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

FOR YOU FASHIONABLE FAGANISTAS

Karl Lagerfeld has reigned at Chanel for more than 25 years!

Our favorite UNKLE is featured on the Sundance Channel on Monday, February, 9th, in a filmography about his life of the past 3 years titled, Lagerfeld Confidential.

This is Sundances Channel's salute to NY Fashion week all week.

Look for Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House on Wednesday, Feb. 11th.

Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton will air on Saturday, Feb. 14th.

Sunday, Feb. 15th, Sundance will air Yves St. Laurent: 5 Marcheau 75116.

Chilrenz--get the TIVO ready!!

All times were for 6pm Central Time--but check your local listing so you don't miss out on these fashionable filmographies!!!!

Friday, October 24, 2008

IF YOU AREN'T IN NEW YORK

HERE'S THE CHANEL MOBILE ART EXHIBIT

IN CENTRAL PARK

CLICK HERE

to read what The New York Post wrote about the exhibit.

Monday, September 22, 2008

JUST INSANE, AHEM, INANE

You know we love us some Unkle Karl....

The Kaiser has produced Chanel surfboards, tennis raquets, tennis balls, apres ski boots, snow skis, soccer balls --all displaying that coveted Chanel logo.

NOW....

He has designed a fishing pole with a bag to fit it in, natch!!

Not any old 2.55 bag would do...

The bag is proudly displayed at the Bond Street boutique. It is a double 2.55 bag.

You can even buy a zipped case of logo-d Chanel flies, too!!.

Wouldn't it be too humid to don your signature Chanel suit for such a trip, unless you are ice-fishing!! We recommend the two-tone stockings to match.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

GREAT WALL OF CHANEL

I know this is old news but I still love this.

As you know, I absolutely love KARL LAGERFELD. I know, I hear the collective sighs from all you fagulous fags and I see you rolling your eyes. The creative genius never stops giving you, "THERE, BITCHES, TAKE THAT!" For his Parisian couture show he gave an ERECT 75-foot-high Chanel jacket.

I'll take that in size XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL!!!

Talk about a COAT OF ARMS!!!!!!!

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YOU KNOW I LOVES ME MY UNKLE KARL

Here is an article/interview of Karl Lagerfeld taken from Women's Wear Daily.

WWD COLLECTIONS: Man in Motion
By Miles Socha
Karl Lagerfeld enters his futuristic new apartment on the Quai Voltaire—which resembles the command deck of some ultraluxurious spacecraft—and flicks a switch. Suddenly, the milky glass walls lining his vast living room/study splinter into panels that swivel open to reveal bookshelves, the motorized system emitting a high-pitched whir redolent of a Formula One race.

The sound effect is apt for the on-the-go life of Lagerfeld: a dizzying whirl of collections, fashion shows, editorial and advertising photography, exhibitions and book publishing. And yet the man still finds time to send countless handwritten notes and faxes, stay up to date on news and gossip, shop for the latest Japanese men’s wear (N.Hoolywood being his latest find) and run his own bookshop—seemingly knowing every word and image in each title it stocks.

“I hate leisure,” the designer hisses gleefully from behind his mirrored Michalsky wraparound sunglasses, “except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. I’m pretty lucky to be doing what I’m doing in beyond-perfect conditions.” Lagerfeld also counts himself lucky for having robust health and a disposition—merciless though it may seem—that drives him to forever ask, “What’s next?”

The answer, as always, is plenty. While scores of designers make a beeline for the beach or a spa to collapse and recharge after the grueling pace of fashion weeks, Lagerfeld keeps zooming, locked in high gear. After presenting widely praised fall collections for Fendi (24-karat gold fur skirts), Chanel (pared-down French chic) and Karl Lagerfeld (terrific tailoring), plus hosting a Fendi store opening and Amy Winehouse concert, he was heading to Hong Kong to celebrate the otherworldly Zaha Hadid pavilion he commissioned for Chanel’s ambitious “Mobile Art” project. After that, he was off to New York to lens campaigns for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and Fendi ready-to-wear and perfume; to Miami to present Chanel’s cruise collection poolside at the Raleigh hotel, and to Lille, London and Versailles for a trio of photo exhibitions. Not to mention the catalogue-cum–fashion magazine he concocted to showcase Chanel’s pre-fall collection, for which he shot the fashion pages and even the fake ads.

Lagerfeld’s chockablock schedule is a mystery, even to him, though his chronic lateness attests to its utter intensity. “I’m very much a last-minute person,” he says. In fact, he does not like much advance notice on what tasks await him. “I hate to cut my time into pieces,” he says. “I’m not selling my free time, and in any case, I have nothing to sell.”

Given his whirlwind of projects, Lagerfeld’s arresting carousel set for Chanel’s show at the Grand Palais was a witty commentary on both his nonstop life and the fashion world’s relentless pace. It served another purpose, too. The 10-ton structure, which took five weeks to sculpt, was a way for Lagerfeld to pare down his Chanel catwalk, putting the quilted bags, camellias, pearls, bows and hats on his merry-go-round instead of on the models. That put the focus on his long and lean suits, cozy knits, frothed-up miniskirts and low-key evening looks. “I was tired of too much stuff on the girls,” he says in his mile-a-minute parlance. “I wanted to clean up my act a little bit.”

That Lagerfeld dreams up the spectacular sets for all his fashion shows—a towering circular staircase one season, a giant Chanel jacket the next—is testimony to not only his fecund imagination, but to the outsize, anything-is-possible scale of his thinking. And he credits the Wertheimers, who own Chanel, for daring to dream big and invest big.

“When you make a movie, you have to build a set,” he says with a shrug. “This show is shown all over the world. I think [the set] frames a collection in a way. Sometimes you might want to see fashion in a better way in a room with 100 people. But today, you invite 100 people and you make 3,000 enemies.”

For all his obvious talents, Lagerfeld is not a numbers person. He says he has no idea how much the shows and events he envisions cost. Just to install the carousel and the platform on which it stood in the Grand Palais took nine days. The setup necessitated an underground passage to ferry a prostrate Lagerfeld on a wheeled trolley from backstage to underneath the center of the merry-go-round, from which he emerged triumphantly in a wide-shouldered suit by Martin Margiela. “It was like working in a mine in the 19th century,” Lagerfeld says. “I loved it.”

Yet Lagerfeld has no doubts that his incredible bespoke sets bring an avalanche of publicity in return. He notes, for example, that the carousel immediately won Chanel double-page spreads in two major German news magazines, Bunte and Focus, to name a few.

It’s a fair guess that plenty of front-row guests jettison, or ignore, the pack of press photographs Lagerfeld places on the seats at each of his shows for Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld. Not so the editors from far afield, who might not have the budgets to hire top models and photographers or stand a chance of borrowing a Chanel garment. Lagerfeld goes that extra mile, winning recognition for the French brand. “I must tell you, it’s very important to do it yourself,” he says. Likewise for all the photography work he does for fashion magazines: “It is interesting to stay in touch with the fashion world.”

Asked if he ever feels like he’s drowning in work, Lagerfeld replies without missing a beat: “I know how to swim and to dive. I don’t even have the feeling like I’m overstretched. For me, it’s like breathing, as long as it’s fresh.”

It was restlessness that drove Lagerfeld to introduce the Métiers d’Art collection for Chanel: a range of luxurious pre-fall rtw made with the savoir faire of the couture ateliers Chanel owns, among them the embroiderer Lesage, the shoemaker Massaro, the feather artisan Lemarié and the silversmith Goossens.

Lagerfeld, who always has a thick sketch pad at the ready, picks up a pen and maps out all the collections he does for Chanel, including couture and pre-collections, and jabs his pen accusingly at the gap between October and January. What started as a low-key—albeit star-studded—show at Chanel’s Rue Cambon ateliers has morphed into one of Lagerfeld’s roving fashion spectacles.

Last year’s blowout in London, which included a fleet of double-C logoed taxis to ferry guests between a number of glitzy events, will be followed up in December by a show in Moscow. In Lagerfeld’s mind, it’s essential to feed a global brand with fresh fashions every month or so. “Temptation has to be permanent,” he says, flashing a big smile.

Lagerfeld is not prone to self-reflection, but muses on his uncanny ability to juggle such a workload. “I have very little social life. I can do without a social life. At the same time, I cannot cross a street alone,” he says. “Fashion and the way it is now, it’s like the life of an athlete. It’s OK with me, I’m used to it. Appetite comes from eating.”

One time-saver for Lagerfeld is that he doesn’t have a proper office and he never, ever does meetings. He confesses he’s not even sure where to find the offices of key executives at Chanel, like Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion. If he or Alain Wertheimer need to discuss something with Lagerfeld, they come see him in the studio.

And when he sets down his pen, his camera and his books, he sleeps seven hours a night without waking. “It’s the payback of a healthy life,” he says. “Collections, books and photos—that’s what I’m interested in most.”

The one thing he fights to find time for is illustrations. “I love to do illustrations. I have several book projects, but I have no time to do them.”

Not that he’s complaining. “I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over,” he says. “The most important thing in fashion is lucidity, if you want to last.”

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CRUISE CONTROL

Karl Lagerfeld showed the Chanel Resort 2008 collection in Miami.

Here are some of images of BLOND UBERHOTNESS Brad Kroenig!!!

I want that MAN .......

AND THE SWEATER!!!!!!!!