Chanel

Chanel's beauty shines through, while spring styles look grown-up and pared-down, with graphic designs, and tribal and fringe accessories. NOT EVEN a global credit crisis can compromise the enduring value of French chic. That was the message from Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld, the reigning godfather...  

Karl Lagerfeld is coming to America! According to WWD, he just purchased a historic, 1840s six-bedroom mansion on an island in Vermont's rustic Lake Champlain. "I love it. It's very much Emily Dickinson," Lagerfeld said at a Chanel show in Paris. The landscape reminds him of his home turf in...  

Karl Lagerfeld has applied his design talent to the 2009 edition of the lauded French illustrated dictionary Le Petit Larousse Illustré (Larousse Small Illustrated Dictionary) - joining the ranks of Christian Lacroix and comic book artist Moebius as designers who have lent their aesthetic vision...  

[WWD] • Karl Lagerfeld has officially become a proper noun in the French dictionary, Le Petit Larousse Illustre. He also illustrated this year's cover. ...  

According to fashion bible Women's Wear Daily, Chanel's Paris-based head honcho Karl Lagerfeld just scooped up a six bedroom house in Vermont...sight unseen ...  

Flamboyant Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld has bought a historic mansion on an island in Vermont's rustic Lake Champlain .  

To commemorate the anniversary of the Chanel handbag, Karl Lagerfeld, Creative Director of Chanel, and famed architect Zaha Hadid collaborated on a unique and international roving project that mixes art, architecture and fashion in surprising ways. They created a touring art museum called The...  

Real estate crisis? What real estate crisis? In the world of Karl Lagerfeld, that sort of stuff doesn't exist. In fact, he is going to save the U.S. economy with the six-bedroom, 1840 landmark building on an island in Lake Champlain, Vermont that he just plunked down a nice chunk of change for...  

Karl Lagerfeld presented the Spring 2009 Chanel ready-to-wear collection on Friday with the usual fanfare, bringing 31 Rue Cambon to the Grand Palais. The color palette was somber and classic chanel - black and white with some soft pastels thrown in for good measure. Far from boring, this allowed...  

Karl Lagerfeld is coming to America! According to WWD , he just purchased a historic, 1840s six-bedroom mansion on an island in Vermont's rustic Lake Champlain. "I love it. It's very much Emily Dickinson," Lagerfeld said at a Chanel show in Paris.  

Karl Lagerfeld is so overexposed, he's getting sick of himself.  

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld gave Chanel's store at rue Cambon 31 in Paris, a touch of Hollywood glamour on Friday when he showed Chanel's Spring/Summer 2009 collection at the Grand Palais in Paris.  

Since it's not exactly feasible to invite people to view a Chanel collection in-house, as it used to be done, Karl Lagerfeld instead decided to bring the Rue Cambon to the thousand or so people who crowded into the Grand Palais. A life-size facade of the storied Chanel building at number...  

Fashionindie thinks the German peasant costume Salma Hayek wore on German TV chat show "Wetten Das" was a "fuck-up." But we did a little research (i.e. Google) and found that Hayek had lost a bet with an audience member requiring her to wear a traditional German dirndl on the show. We don't...  

Is the gloved-one, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, taking a page from the Philippe Starck playbook entitled "Talk About How Disappointed You Are In You"? Well, certainly they're both more than a little nutty, but when Lagerfeld says he's "suffering from an overdose of myself" and worries that...