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SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE.(exhibition of works by fashion designers Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld at Metropolitan Museum)
I once had a chance to buy a couture suit by Chanel that was made sometime in the nineteen-fifties, her comeback years. She had closed her maison de couture, on the Rue Cambon, when war was declared in 1939, and reopened it in 1954, when she returned to France, at seventy-one, from self-imposed exile in Switzerland. The stories of her attempts to wrest control of Chanel Parfums from her partners, the Wertheimer family, by exploiting the Nazi race laws, and of her startling offer to Hitler's secret-police chief to broker a negotiated peace with her old friend Winston Churchill--a farcical operation code-named Modellhut (fashion hat) by Chanel's S.S. handlers--have always ...
- Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel: young, sexy and subtle. (Paris fashion shows by Karl...
- Magazine article from: WWD October 24, 1989 700+ words
KARL LAGERFELD'S CHANEL: YOUNG, SEXY AND...the foreign legion. Karl Lagerfeld showed the French what the spirit of Chanel is all about. Valentino...s what happened: CHANEL: Karl Lagerfeld saved his best for...
- Ode to Coco: Karl Lagerfeld on the mystique of Coco Chanel; on the eve of the...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar O'Neill, Kristina April 1, 2005 700+ words
...was Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's lucky number, and...at storied brands, Karl Lagerfeld took the reins and galloped...their peers as well. Chanel: A lucky house indeed...it a retrospective. Karl Lagerfeld: I hate retrospective. People like Chanel, Balenciaga, Vionnet...
- TOPSHOTSGerman designer Karl Lagerfeld at th end of Chanel during...
- Picture from: Getty Images PATRICK KOVARIK October 7, 2009 700+ words
...Images 10-07-2009 TOPSHOTSGerman designer Karl Lagerfeld at th end of Chanel during... Full Size JPG (4768 KB) TOPSHOTSGerman designer Karl Lagerfeld at th end of Chanel during ready-to-wear Spring-Summer...
- Poster boy. (Karl Lagerfeld to promote Chanel in Parisian stores)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: WWD October 17, 1995 700+ words
...stores in Paris are fishing for customers, and Karl Lagerfeld is their bait. Printemps is beginning a major Chanel promotion this week, and Lagerfeld was scheduled...put it over its front door to announce its Karl Lagerfeld promotion.
- FROM COCO TO ROCOCO; WHILE KARL LAGERFELD TURNED OUT METICULOUS LOOKS THAT...
- Magazine article from: WWD July 5, 2007 700+ words
Chanel: Competition among couturiers - one of the delightful amusements...John Galliano, who took Dior to Versailles, and on Monday, Karl Lagerfeld, who showed his Chanel collection at the beautiful Parc de Saint Cloud (ironically named...
- Paris heats up: Emanuel Ungaro struts his stuff. (fashion shows presented by...
- Magazine article from: WWD January 24, 1990 700+ words
...seductive collection. Then came Karl Lagerfeld, who turned Chanel into a nouvelle nymphet...last row in the corner. CHANEL: When Karl Lagerfeld is good, he's great...quite simply, the worst Chanel he has ever done. It was...
- Looser Ungaro, satirical Karl beat Paris heat. (fashions shown at Paris shows...
- Magazine article from: WWD July 25, 1990 700+ words
...and the glories of the chemise. At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld made a strong -- and witty -- statement...encrusted rose-colored sheath. CHANEL: Karl Lagerfeld is bored with the haute bourgeois image of Chanel, so this season he decided to have...
- CHANEL'S ROYAL FLUSH.(Karl Lagerfeld and House of Chanel on pre-fall collection)
- Magazine article from: WWD Socha, Miles December 8, 2006 700+ words
...MONTE CARLO - For the restless Karl Lagerfeld, fashion is a movable, unstoppable...feast, and he - along with a Chanel entourage of 80 - touched down...the seven couture ateliers Chanel owns, including the embroiderer...a significant business for Chanel, fanned pre-collection mania...