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Your Daily Fashion Scoop
Photo1 from vogue.co.uk & Photo2 from jaimemoncarre.com
Welcome to your Daily Scoop of Fashion News. Where Fashion, Fun & Gossip are always on the menu.
Photo1 google images / Photo2 jaimemoncarre.com / Photo3 vogue.co.uk / Photo4 style.com
Lanvin for H&M
I am certain everyone is just as excited about the Lanvin for H&M collaboration as I am! And it’s not very far away now. Due to hit stores Nov 23 rd, the first image of what we can expect was released yesterday. (pictured above)
Featuring many Lanvin signature trademarks – the asymmetrical neckline, ruffles, nipped in waists and ultra feminine styles – you will now be able to add some Lanvin flare to your wardrobe for the price tag of H&M. What is sure to be a very quick sell-out, customers will also be able to buy online through H&M’s ecommerce site just launched in September.
J’aime mon carré
(I love my scarf)
Hermès will be opening two pop up shops in London dedicated to their brand J’aime mon carré – or I love my scarf.
To be located in Shoreditch and West London, they will open in November in succession – the Shoreditch branch from Nov 17th to 25th and West London from Nov 25th. Both shops will be dedicated to the beautiful classic Hermès scarf. Expert staff will be on hand to show you different ways to tie them. I cannot wait!
Best Dressed List – Keira Knightly in Chanel
As many of you may know Chanel is my absolute favourite. My fashion heaven. So whenever a celebrity steps out in Chanel it instantly captures my attention. Keira Knightley wore a stunning Chanel dress at the London premiere of Never Let Me Go.
A Chanel favourite, Knightley’s dress is from the Fall Couture 2010 collection. Covered in thousands of pearls, the neckline and sleeves are also draped perfectly with them. The striking cut-outs at the waist slim the figure and highlight the skin with subtle sophistication. A perfect score for Knightley and Chanel on this one!
Simply Magnifique! xx
Chic This Week
Jessica Alba’s Evolving Style
Photos from twenty2.onsugar.com and style.com
This year Jessica Alba has been dressing to impress. With an evolving style that includes a taste for the major fashion houses – from Chanel to Dior, Balmain, Valentino and Dolce and Gabbana – Alba is set to fast become a style icon.
So… this week we celebrate the emerging fashion style of Jessica Alba!
Making a name for herself in the fashion world, Alba is regularly topping the best dressed lists. With many of her looks taken straight from the catwalk, Alba’s effortless carefree glamour makes for the perfect accompaniment to the striking pieces. Choosing show stopping dresses to flatter Alba’s incredible body, I think Jessica Alba’s stylist may be in need of a raise…
Alba’s relaxed weekend look, red-carpet glamour and carefree elegance – always has her looking ultra chic and making quite the style statement.
My Favourite Jessica Alba look:
Dolce and Gabbana, Fall 2010 Collection
Tailoring, sex appeal, lace and lingerie are what Dolce and Gabbana are known for. Always creating immaculately tailored pieces that fit and flatter a woman’s curves – they know women and how to dress them. Elegant yet undeniably sexy, the Dolce and Gabbana dress (pictured top) was one of my favourite looks from the Fall 2010 collection. The seductive floral print with lots of sheer layers is refined, chic and sexy. Love the long sheer sleeves and unfinished hemline. Bellissimo!
What do you think of Jessica Alba’s style? Who are your style favourites? xx
All runway photos- style.com | Photo 1- celebguru.org, Photo3- styleclone.com, Photo5- hollyscoop.com, Photo7- twenty2.onsugar.com
Elegance In Fragrance
Chanel Nº 5
Photos from Flickr.com
“Madame Gabrielle Chanel is above all an artist in living. Her dresses, her perfumes, are created with a faultless instinct for drama. Her perfume Nº 5 is like the soft music that underlies the playing of a love scene. It kindles the imagination; indelibly fixes the scene in the memories of the players.” Chanel Nº 5 advertisement, 1937 Harpers Bazaar
Coco Chanel changed the world of fashion; revolutionising the way women dressed and the luxury of comfort in clothing. So when Chanel set her sights on fragrance and decided that it too played an integral role in a woman’s style; a fragrance icon was soon to be born.
And as they say the rest is history… Chanel Nº 5 was the first fragrance to be launched by Chanel in 1921 and it has been coveted ever since. Having been described as the world’s most legendary fragrance, it is not surprising that one bottom is sold every 55 seconds worldwide.
Nº 5 – revolutionary in scent, name & presentation…
The power of the scent Chanel Nº 5 tells the story of intimacy, seduction, opulence, desire and warmth. Yet the smell itself is almost impossible to describe. The extraordinary complexity of Chanel Nº 5 set it apart from all other fragrances of its time. The reason being is that Nº 5 was an abstract scent. Released when most women wore a single-note of floral (either rose, violet or gardenia); Chanel wanted to create a ‘un parfum de femme, à l’odeur de femme’ (the scent/smell of a woman).
Chanel commissioned Ernest Beaux and they set out to create a synthetic composition that was unlike anything else. Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, describes Nº 5 ‘like a bank of hot searchlights washing the powdered stars at a movie premiere in Cannes on a dry summer night’.
The composition of Chanel Nº 5: – Top note – Ylang-Ylang and Neroli – Heart note – Grasse Jasmine and May Rose – Base note – Sandalwood and Vanilla
It’s all in a name The pure simplicity and elegance of the fragrance’s name made a strong statement. Why Nº 5? The exact reason is part of its mystery and intoxicating allure. It may be because it was the 5th sample that was purposed to her or that 5 was also her intimate number in numerology (to bring her luck).
The bottle With the minimalism of the laboratory vile itself, Chanel believed the contents would always be more important than the container. Chanel designed the bottle to be no-nonsense in her legendary black and whitening writing…perfection.
Icon Status In 1953, when Marilyn Monroe was asked what she wore at night and famously replied, “Five drops of Nº 5.”, there was no stopping its success. Monroe became the first personality to be associated with the fragrance. Andy Warhol again brought Nº 5 to the spotlight, using the bottle as the subject of 9 screen prints in 1964.
Pure Seduction Chanel believed that women should wear perfume wherever they wanted to be kissed.
Nº 5 today Many classic scents have been tweaked for modern women; however, Nº 5 smells the exact same now as it did when it launched in 1921. The mysterious sensation that you experience when you smell Nº 5 is still unlike anything else.
After all, isn’t Chanel Nº 5’s enduring appeal all the more part of its allure? Chanel is quoted as saying, “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
What is your coveted perfume scent?The fragrance you simply cannot resist.. x
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