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...world to be ignored by nearly everybody else, India is suddenly the flavor of the new century. Vogue will launch an Indian edition next year. Every rock act of note plays Bangalore: the Rolling Stones were here three years ago and U2 will perform in the autumn. Chanel spent several hundred thousand dollars on a single evening's festivities to announce its entry into India, and Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Gucci and the others are on their way. Nor is the traffic one-way. Indian companies are now expanding abroad. The Tata Group, the country's largest conglomerate, recently announced...
After a cocaine scandal led Chanel, H&M and Burberry to sever ties with KATE MOSS, the iconically thin supermodel went from rehab to the cover of French Vogue and landed a new contract with Virgin Mobile...
...ELEMENTS CELESTES Coco Chanel had a thing for black and white, and also for the cosmos. That's the inspiration for the brand's latest fine-jewelry venture, Eléments Célestes, which includes 16 pieces made of 15,400 stones, including diamonds, pearls and sapphires for a total weight of 330 carats. To present the collection, Chanel asked contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan to create original artwork inspired by the Eléments Célestes jewelry...
...outside, the mausoleum still looks impeccable, its brown marble and granite façade polished to a gleaming shine. But today Vladimir Lenin's tomb is a site of only passing interest, and the gleam from its walls reflects the lights of the shops across Red Square: Louis Vuitton, Kenzo, Chanel. "The only Muscovites who come here are showing a visitor around," says a policeman on duty near the tomb. "Always out-of-towners. You can tell from their clothes--like ours from about 15 years ago." The officer hasn't been inside to see Lenin's embalmed body since...
...Curiously, there is no evidence that Chanel ever actually visited China or even Asia. "I expect the closest she got was something like Venice," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. One can only speculate what impact a proper Asian sojourn would have had on a designer whose love of Chinese style permeates her label's products to this...