Chanel prints are here!!

A new set of Tom's Chanel prints arrived this morning!

I quickly grabbed my camera to share! (ps that black book with the red dot is Tom's leather bound drawing tablet full of fashion icons and portraits!)
Find Chanel in Tom's shop here

Guess who's featured on pg 258 of Rue Magazine??

Chanel 09 by Tom

AND you can enter a chance to win this print simply by signing up for Rue's mailing list!! A new online design and decor magazine, just launched last week! How exciting is that?!

Etsy Success

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Coco avant cancer

We finally saw Coco Avant Chanel A lot of classic French cigarette addiction to gauloises and Gitanes, very invasive am going for chest x-rays next week. The cinematography and visuals of the movie were very engaging although the screenplay and acting seemed to stereotype some of the situations in Chanel's early life, ie young ambitious orphaned ingenue meets zirtee old man (both played to the stereotypical max) and becomes booming success via her compromises with the filthy beast. Don't know if the reality was this cut and dried. In the end the visuals of the dreamy summer haze filled French countryside, vintage cars, and of course Chanel's classic haute couture clothing lines rescued the movie from its straight forward presentation of her life's circumstances. 

Here's a soundtrack clip from the movie Coco singing l'Trocadero

If you feel a need to smoke when the movie is over please resist!

Chanel 2

Paris Couture- Ahhh Chanel

I love these paper headpieces by Katsuyo Kamo for Chanel Couture 2009, beautiful!

Cathy Horyn of the NY Times writes in todays paper, "Lagerfeld was like a fly that dropped onto a leaf and then surveyed all. But the leaf told him everything."
read more here


images found via the new york times and whitelightning