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Mademoiselle Chanel

Mademoiselle Chanel once famously said “fashion is made to be unfashionable”. Chanel understood that once a trend becomes heavily saturated in the market it becomes undesirable and that over time, styles will naturally become part of fashion history. Clearly, when throwaway fashion evolved hand in hand with mass production in the last half of the […]

CHANEL- A RECESSION PROOF BRAND

Despite the doom and gloom predicted in the financial forecast, luxury heritage brands such as Chanel are weathering the storm in these times of recession. In difficult times people are comforted by the familiar and this is true of classic brands like Chanel, Gucci, and Burberry which are doing so well that they are hiking […]

The secrets of a Chanel 2.55 handbag

Recently I was fortunate to visit the exhibition ‘The Secrets of the Chanel Handbag’ held at Chanel’s New York flagship store on 57th St it was only on for a limited run from May 8-16 (I am hoping that the ‘exhibition’ will travel and visit us in London!  The exhibit demonstrated the construction and history […]