Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Karl Lagerfeld! (September 10, 1933). Uncle Karl is 76 years-young today. Today is a holy day. We wear all black and fast for a full 24 hours in Karl's honor. If you feel like you might faint, you can have a sip of Diet Coke.

Picture du Jour

This picture makes me happy.

"There is no Chanel collection without black. It will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes?"

- Karl Lagerfeld

Eat Chanel

Audrey Tautou for Chanel No. 5

Last year Audrey Tautou and her Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet announced that they would reconnect to replace the old Chanel No. 5 commercial. Filming began last May and lasted for three weeks. In the new commercial, Tautou and model Travis Davenport play two strangers who experience a number of missed encounters, as they ride the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul. The full commercial runs 2 minutes, 25 seconds and will air in May. Here are some pictures from the set. 

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Ooh La La Claudia

Claudia Schiffer sat front row at Chanel Fall 2009 show. How is it possible that she is still so gorgeous? I swear she doesn't age. 

Sneak Peak

I've already shown you a behind-the-scenes look into Louis Vuitton's Spring 2009 campaign. Now here's a revealing peek into Chanel's. Here, Karl is behind the camera photographing Heidi Mount in his six-bedroom Vermont home. He says, "I love this house. It is so Emily Dickinson."

Stunning, per usual.

Quote of the Day

In an interview to the Telegraph, the demi-god Karl Lagerfeld defends the fur industry:

"In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes and handbags, the discussion of fur is childish."