Word: chanelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kieslowski, who died two years ago at 54 after heart-bypass surgery, was perhaps Europe's most revered director. Several of his pictures--The Double Life of Veronique, Blue and Red--were swank fables of anomie in which seductive color schemes enveloped gorgeous actresses like a Chanel shroud. The films nearly turned despair into a fashion statement...
Certainly she never goes on a bust without a Chanel suit. A sense of humor at work is one thing, but treating your job like a joke is another. At least Ally McBeal gets to make intelligent speeches from time to time...
...FiFi can directly affect the career of those involved, giving them precious exposure to marketing partners. "It was devastating for us," says Cindy VanderVoort, wife of Koert VanderVoort, vice president of sales for Quest International, which launched Tommy Girl, a major fragrance that lost the top FiFi to Chanel's Allure at last year's awards. "They worked for seven months on this. They flew guys in from France on the Concorde to touch up the top notes. He went skydiving for Hilfiger Athletics. He jumped off a f___ing plane." Amid his wife's rant, Koert looks uncomfortably down...
Depending on the source, Chanel's return to the fashion world has been variously attributed to falling perfume sales, disgust at what she was seeing in the fashion of the day or simple boredom. All these explanations seem plausible, and so does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success. Lagerfeld--who designs Chanel today and who has turned the company into an even bigger, more tuned-in business than it was before--points out, "By the '50s she had the benefit of distance, and so could truly distill the Chanel look...
...Europe, her return to fashion was deemed an utter flop at first, but Americans couldn't buy her suits fast enough. Yet again Chanel had put herself into the yolk of the zeitgeist. By the time Katharine Hepburn played her on Broadway in 1969, Chanel had achieved first-name recognition and was simply Coco. Ingrid Sischy is editor in chief of Interview and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair