Diane Kruger, Hailee Steinfeld, Grimes, Rita Ora and Two Brides Turn Up on the Chanel Couture Beach   Ironically, considering that snow blanketed Paris at the start of haute couture week, Karl Lagerfeld created a sandy beach inside the historic glass-domed exhibition hall for his spring...

More Fall Winter 2012 2013 Haute Couture Shows; More About All the Stars and the Classy Old-Fashioned Invitations   So Many Stars If there have been more Hollywood stars in Paris for any previous haute couture season, I can’t remember when that would have been – and I’ve been...

Chanel Presents New Vintage – Haute Couture Style – In a Afternoon Tea Party Setting   On exiting the Chanel fall winter haute couture presentation, French actress Lou Doillon was still marveling over the fairy tale wedding dress – a fantasy in feathers.  (Doillon is...

Three Days on Scene at the Paris Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012 Collections   What else but the Paris haute couture shows could attract the former First Lady of France Bernadette Chirac, along with rock stars, top actresses, heiresses, the international press and other VIPs?...

Chanel Haute Couture Spring 2012 Takes Off in Out-Of-This-World Style   No ordinary fashion show venue ever seems to satisfy Karl Lagerfeld. So for the Chanel spring/ summer 2012 haute couture collection, presented Jan. 24 at the Grand Palais in Paris, guests were seated in what appeared to...

Stars Shine at Chanel Haute Couture Fall 2011-   Design genius Karl Lagerfeld and the Chanel team never seem to run out of fresh ideas for their Paris haute couture shows. Over the years, I’ve seen Chanel models stride across a floating runway in a swimming pool; a brass band pop out from...