It’s not a secret that Karl Lagerfeld is a big fan is of supermodel Freja Beha Erichsen. In a lot of Chanel campaigns you can see her and aigain for the coming fall campaigns.

This campaign you can see her with a very striking look. On her forehead is the French quote written. The quote reads ‘Il n’y a pas de mode, si elle ne descend pas dans la rue!’ The quote means in English: ‘There is no fashion if she doesn’t take it to the street!’. We are wondering if Freja is going to walk on the street with this on her forehead.

Karl Lagerfeld shot the photos himself and the styling is done by Carine Roitfield.

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A cola light bottle in a brand new pink coat.

Karl Lagerfeld is in love with Coca Cola and especially the light version. Therefore he designed a whole new series of cola bottles. The three new, exclusive designs are on sale from 14th of May.

Designer, artist, photographer, costume designer, weight loss guru, bookshop owner, author and international man of mystery: Karl Lagerfeld is one of fashion’s favourite enigmas. No-one knows when exactly he was born, some say 1938, the local christening register and old school friends say 1933, Lagerfeld himself says neither, or whether his father was Russian, Swedish or German.

He’s famous for his outspoken opinions, having said that he has “no human feelings” and described himself as “a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm”, and – in the early Nineties – his controversial antics resulted in Anna Wintour walking out of his Fendi show because he had employed Italian porn star Moana Pozzi to model the collection. Read More

There were rumors going around that Chanel has an eye on a famous actress from Gossip Girl. But nobody knew if it was true.

During the last show of Chanel it clicked very well between Karl Lagerfeld and Blake Lively. Karl was so impressed by Blake that Chanel appointed her ambassadress of Chanel Mademoiselle. For Blake is this a big honor and she will be wearing her Chanel bag with pride.

We are very curious about the campaign photos.

Karl Lagerfeld makes some free time in his busy schedule to show us a different side of him. You can see Karl in the new commercial for Volkswagen. He tells us proudly in French about the Golf and Polo style. When his darling Baptiste Giabiconi whispers in his ear that the models are coming from Germany, Karl halt still.

Judge for yourself about Karl’s acting skills and tell us what you think about it.

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The “Gossip Girl” star has recently been in Paris filming a new ad campaign for the Chanel fashion house, E! News is reporting. Lively will promote the brand’s handbags in a campaign that will be released in early 2011, according to the news site.

We can’t wait to see how the girl who just landed herself on Vogue’s Best Dressed List embodies the Chanel woman.

In July, the up-and-coming fashion icon was seen brushing shoulders in the front row at the Chanel Haute Couture show during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week. And in September, she attracted a media swarm when she went out and about with Herr Lagerfeld after the reopening of Chanel’s SoHo outpost in New York City.

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Among others, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin and Vivienne Westwood designed a Tarot card.

The ancient Tarot card game, which originated in the fifteenth century, is revived. In New York there is currently an exhibition on this card game. 78 artists have participated in this exhibition. Among the artists are fashion designers including Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin and Vivienne Westwood, but also a photographer Terry Richardson. Each artist designed his own Tarot card. This resulted in a collection of original maps.

For example to take Christian Louboutin. He designed a Nine of Cups-card, which stands for self-indulgence and power. Those themes, he expressed to image a naked woman smoking and drinking and playing with her high heels.

Gianfranco Ferré is the newest designer who create a special bottle for Coca Cola. He follows up Manolo Blahnik and Karl Lagerfeld. Tommaso and Roberto, creative directors of Gianfranco Ferré designed four special bottles. The bottles are designed for the ‘Tribute to Fashion’ charity event organized by Coca Cola Italy.

You’ll need to be in Paris during the Ready to wear Spring/Summer 2011 collections (September 29 – October 7) and be sure to stop by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie to catch a dedicated exhibition of Karl Lagerfeld’s photography. Lagerfeld is famous for his love of the medium: he shoots all of Chanel’s ad campaigns and is the author of several photographic books, including recent “The Beauty of Violence”, which featured intimate portraits of his muse Baptiste Giabiconi and also “Metamorphoses of an American”, which focuses on male model Brad Kroenig.

And besides his day job in fashion, he also holds the reins of 7L, a photography bookshop in Paris situated beneath his photography studio. The selection of books on sale there mirrors the Karl’s personal passions – a melée of rare and vintage books, photography tomes and edgy magazines.

The exhibition runs from September 10 to October 15. For more information La mep.

Chanel is dropping new beauty collections like it’s hot: Last week it was aquamarine nail polish and color-pop brights for summer, and today it’s black and gold, in a glamorous spring collection inspired by the Orient.

Based on the look global creative director Peter Philips created for Chanel’s Paris-Shanghai Metiers d’Art fashion show this past December, the collection, called Noir et Or, is a glamorous study of dark and light which juxtaposes matte and shiny textures, and conveys how Coco Chanel perceived Shanghai in the 1930′s and 40′s.

Since 2002, designer Karl Lagerfeld has been showing yearly Metiers d’Art collections as an ode to the skilled artisans responsible for the exquisite details that set Chanel apart. The show takes place in a different city each year; spots have included Moscow, London and New York, along with this season’s Shanghai.

Noir et Or marks the second makeup collection that’s sprung from Metiers d’Art; the first was The Moscow Collection, a cadre of three limited edition, velvety nail polishes Philips created for 2008′s Paris-Moscow show. Standouts from Noir et Or include Le Vernis Nail Color in Black Velvet, a matte black polish, Le Vernis Nail Color in Gold Lame, a satiny gold.

Matte polish is a great way to update your look for spring, and dark nails are also a seasonal must.

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