Category Archives: Timeless Chanel

7 December 2012

Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show at Linlithgow Palace

Linton’s H1804, a wool and mohair blend in ecru white, was Coco Chanel’s favourite tweed, as I was reading in the December issue of Vanity Fair On Couture. In the 1920s she was introduced to William Linton, who in 1912 … Read More →

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24 August 2011

A Chanel campaign

photos: Chanel fall 1995 campaign by Karl Lagerfeld, models Claudia Schiffer, Shalom Harlow and Kristen McMenamy

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3 August 2011

Romy Schneider: a portrait + a timeless look

These are two of my favourite images of Romy Schneider. The first one is a portrait by artist Andreas Reimann. It’s called Romy Classic and it’s part of his series Hommage to Romy Schneider: “this face, what I call the ‘Romy Classic’ … Read More →

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19 April 2011

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Chanel: a name that has always cast a fascination over me. My love for fashion is closely connected to my love for Chanel, to what she has never stopped to represent to modern women from the first shop she opened until today, a century later. … Read More →

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13 April 2011

Chanel, what else?

Now, that I’ve had my dose of Chanel for today, I can carry on with my work. What inspires you today, any day? photos: Daria Werbowy photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel spring-summer 2006, link

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