lavender. grey & cometes : Karl's Chanel

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Kristen McMenamy looking like a Bourbon from a Nattier portrait

Sophie de France

Madame Victoire of France 

painted by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Why there will always be Chanel-at this point, one must admit it is the vision of Karl Lagerfeld. He is a magician pulling beautiful rabbits out of  a Chanel boater. His Resort collection was staged at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera  this week.
 

I love the stars -part of  Chanel haute joallerie pieces- diamonds brooches pinned on vests, & featured as motifs in fabrics-

"Do not you believe, madam, said I, 

that the clearness of this Night exceeds the Glory of the brightest day?

I confess, said she, the Day must yield to such a Night. "

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

 "I wanted to cover women with constellations! 

With stars! 

Stars of all sizes!"

CHANEL

"I confess, said she, the Day must yield to such a Night.

 I love the Stars, and could be heartily angry with the Sun for taking them from my sight."

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

 

Chanel Fine Jewelry here
Chanel.com here
Vogue.com here
Comet images here



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eco Alabama Chanin

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now you can vote for something you really love- really.  all made by hand-by Alabama artisans & designed by Natalie Chanin

the CFDA is looking for THE MOST ECO DESIGNER? could it be anyone else? Here is what Natalie Chanin says about Alabama Chanin.

I've followed her work for years. go to the Alabama Chanin site and EXPLORE here 



go to this page & VOTE- HERE,  
make your VOICE, and choice heard.

make your eco designer favorite known.

the Alabama Chanin Denim Collection

this collection is something else-

& the guys get something too-

all the images are from Alabama Chanin here

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Alabama Chanin's Gibson Girl

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an Alabama Chanin Gibson Girl above left, center

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below-

from the Spring 2010 book at Alabama Chanin HERE

if you've not heard about Alabama Chanin- sit down suga! Natalie Chanin is an original- and You know I love originals. She has a honest to goodness Unique fashion label Alabama Chanin that uses the natural resources of skilled hands and the most exquisitely nimble fingers in Alabama.

The designs of Chanin can be for the home or the body. I find her made by hand clothing to be reminiscent of a few special-mostly simple things my great great grandmother made-and somehow- were saved, even after a fire destroyed the attics and other parts of the old Victorian. There were tiny  delicate stitches of cotton thread on real natural fabric-cotton, linen.

 one of my own heirloom nightgowns

The Alabama Chanin fabrics are all natural-organic, recycled or new, all combined to become works of art -like the applique on organic cotton jersey above (here).Natalie Chanin's artisans are her neighbors in and around Florence Alabama and there work can be one of a kind or limited editions- "Grown to Sewn"

feast on Alabama Chanin' Indigo Summer Denim Collection at their website-

HERE

Natalie Chanin at left image from here
Alabama Chanin's site here
the 2 large images of the Alabama Chanin dresses are from style.com here
the Alabama Chanine Journal here
top photo-from my collection
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