Chanel

Miss Bouquet as the ultimate paragon of unattainable sang froid

Her beauty is mutable (cold/warm),(tan/pale) , (feminine/powerful) and provided a blank screen and a perfect template for beauty as cultural myth.

To go with this exhibition, graphic designer Irma Bloom has created a special edition with images referring to CHANEL Nº5

To a blurred eye, that could read "Culture Channel". But why shouldn't there be a Chanel cultural channel? 24/7. 365!

This incredibly elegant book/press kit presents Chanel's makeup collection via a collaboration with Peter Phillips

One of the shrewdest art direction outfits on the circuit right this minute is Base Design, the global company with a decided handle on how to deliver an ideal of contemporary luxury.

A vital luxury brand has to engage and reflect a contemporary world to maintain its relevancy.

The ideas about to be expressed are not all mine. They were gleaned during a dinner conversation at Kingdom in Bushwick, which is a pretty funny place to have a sustained conversation about "luxury".

Corey Baptiste is the new boy to know right this minute. Trust.

TI has been roaming those long nights in search of that special brand of high grade hiss that only a drunk and messy Fashion Week shebang can yield.

Audrey Tatou comme Coco Chanel.

In all this hither and tither on Air France...a surprise bonus. They're screening "Coco Avant Chanel"

Can Baptiste Giabiconi ride that privileged Karl Lagerfeld platform all the way to icon-hood

"The lifeblood of any model, male or female is the customer coming back. We can be the best possible agent and make that opportunity of the booking... that one time. We can get you in to see that customer who ordinarily would not have requested you...that one time. But the only one who can make that into a repeat booking is you when you get on set"

Sean Patterson , President of Wilhelmina Management.

Lara vs Natasha for the New No 1 slot at MDC.

Raquel Zimmerman has ruled the No 1 spot at MDC for almost two years now, signaling that she is indeed that rare, rare paragon of longevity.

Rie sketches a line drawing..using coffee.

"I'm not an artist. This is my life."

Rie Rasmussen

Stalactites by Zaha Hadid at Sonnebad Gallery : Image via designboom.com