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Alanoud glances at her diamond-encrusted Chanel J12 watch. The truth is, today's schedule is a little ambitious. We've already "done" Wafi Mall, which opened in 1991 and since then has virtually doubled in size, with a new subterranean "suq shopping experience" planned. We've stopped by the chic Emirates Towers Boulevard to mooch around Villa Moda, the designer emporium that also has stores in Kuwait, Qatar and Bombay. And Alanoud has taken me to the Village Mall, near her family home in the ritzy suburb Jumeirah, where the latest must-have accessory is a clutch bag made...
...certainly cheaper than Chanel, but please don't call it secondary. "I hate the notion of a second line," Lagerfeld says, on the phone from Paris where he was working on Chanel's fall 2006 line. "It's condescending and patronizing...
What will differentiate this line, according to Lagerfeld, is its real-world attitude. "It's much tougher than Chanel and more about the way people dress in everyday life," he says...
Manufactured in Hong Kong, Italy and the U.S., the collection is the result of Tommy Hilfiger's acquisition of the Karl Lagerfeld trademark in 2004. And while Lagerfeld is famous for his multitasking talents, whether that means cutting a Chanel jacket, designing a Fendi fur coat, snapping a high-fashion photograph or discussing 16th century Spanish philosophy in one of his five languages, the world of less expensive clothes is new territory for him. Adding one more collection may be easy. Breaking into a crowded market filled with a vast array of established denim brands, T shirt designers and manufacturing...
What do you do when you've scaled the heights of fashion, designing some of the most talked-about collections on runways from Paris to Milan, and you've reinvented such iconic brands as Chanel and Fendi? Well, you come and conquer America, of course. And that's what Karl Lagerfeld, probably the most respected name in fashion, plans to do this week when he hits New York City with his latest venture: a namesake collection for men and women that will be priced far below the four-figure price tags of Chanel...