Once Upon a Time... by Karl Lagerfeld

I'm sure most of you have already seen it, since it has been announced 2 weeks ago on Facebook, I've been expecting this day so badly!
Yesterday has been showed Karl Lagerfeld's film about the 100th anniversary of the first Chanel boutique in Deauville. A master little movie directed by the one and only Karl, for fashion lovers. With the beautiful Keria Knightley as Gabrielle Chanel.

Enjoy!

What you think about this film?

-AL

HUGE accessories

This spring, designers left us with edgy proportions. Minimalism is slowly fading away as Carine Roitfeld said she hopes so at the last Paris Fashion Week. Here we are in spring and it's time for you to get some references on what you will have to wear this season as accessories.

The master word here is HUGE, choose to wear some big accessories the next month at the beach or if you are willing to chill out to eat an ice cream.

Take your huge Chanel pearls as shown at the side here.

Vintage Treasures

Chanel Black Flap Bag, $2750.00

This week, for the vintage find, I'm reverting back to the most classical style. With festival season approaching, girls are shopping for bandeaus and bikinis, short shorts and low cut tank tops... And with so much skin exposed, sometimes it's a bit difficult to always keep it classy.

A classic Chanel bag is key. At a fraction of the retail price of a brand new bag (would you believe, a new Chanel costs anywhere from $5,000-10,000 for a bag this size?), this bag is not only a must have for this year, but basically for the rest of your life. Or, when you're old and decide a Chanel is too much for you, I'm sure your daughter would love it.

My humble opinion? If you've got the dough, buy the Chanel.
Would you buy this bag?

Hot Buys Weekly 7: Chanel Inspired Resort Wear

It feels so good to be back blogging again after taking a few days break from Stardoll to focus on schoolwork and such. But now that I'm back, I've been itching to critique the latest Hot Buys Weekly release! So I'm sure many of you, by now, have realized that Stardoll imitated Chanel's Resort 2013 release for this week's Hot Buys. I say they did a pretty good job with this collection.

The first piece I took a look at was the Resort '13 Dress. Using a side-by-side comparison, I'd say that they did a lovely job with the tulle layering and flowing design. The flowers on the Hot Buys dress were, however, missing the contrast that actually made them look like flowers, and not just pastel-colored confetti. The dress looked like it were being puffed up by a soft, spring breeze, and gave the dress nice volume and definition.

The next item I enjoyed was the Pastel Paris Hair. It most certainly was an accurate depiction of the wigs that the girls sported while modeling the designs at Chanel's release. I thoroughly enjoyed the color, being a fan of pastels, and the cut and style. They did a nice job with the windy look.

When glancing back and forth between Chanel's release and the Hot Buys, the Golden Resort Purse fell a bit short. The purse design itself lacked detail, and was a little too 2-dimensional for my tastes. 8 Stardollars for something of this caliber isn't necessarily a waste of money, but I wouldn't really recommend spending money on it. Of course, I do commend the lovely effort and style of the gold chain, as well as the shading on the strap.

The Resort '13 Sunhat was a classic and versatile addition to this week's collection, in my opinion. The wide brim nicely complimented the black ribbon tied around it. However, the shading gave it a plastic appearance, and I do think they could have done more with deepening the shade and gradient of the pink. There wasn't really anything too special about this hat, though.

I was a little confused with the Striped Boots. Sure, the pinstripes in light pink on the white were very nice, but I really don't see how it fit into this collection. It was as if they just threw a re-designed copy of January's Fallen Angel Boots. (See attached photo.) It was definitely the wild card in this collection.

Overall, this collection scored an A.

I think Stardoll did a pretty decent job with this collection, and managed to accurately pay homage to Chanel's Resort '13 release! I hope there will be more of these types of collections in the future!

Crop Top Trend

Hey, it's me again! I'm back being very inspired by real life fashion these past times. So I'm bringing to you an ambitious way to make posts. Really structured, as I think every collection designers draws show a perception of what the women's silouhette needs to look like next season. And this season, crop top is back!

You guys surely remember Lindsay Lohan ten years ago wearing this trend. Then, it's back here for the thinner of us that have no problems with showing their navel.

Now let's see where you can find some of 'em.

The CHANEL Woman

"I feel like a China-Chanel girl"

The Chanel woman is classy, as ever. She enjoys her crop top on high-waisted pants or a high-waisted short skirt to give her legs a bit of credits otherwise she feels uncomfortable. If she doesn't use black, it's only white or blue. The arms get to be a bit oversized because she wants some fresh air on the long sleeves. To perfect the look she always feels the need to make a tribute to the sea with big pearls on her wrists or her neck.

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Chanel Overload

The phase of real life Stardoll comparison blogs seems to have drifted away and we are all now left wondering what designers Stardoll use to inspire their pieces. I've been very unsure on all Hot Buys Weekly's so far however I quickly realised the large use of Chanel Resort 2013 with the sunhat, dress, hair and bag all being inspired by the wonderful collection.

It also appears that the shoes from this Chanel collection were the blue ones in last weeks hot buys! I don't know about you but seeing the real life items made me all the more tempted to purchase them on Stardoll. What are your favourites and what did you like? As usual, a review will be posted by Vivian later in the week.

To conclude, what posts would you enjoy reading on TTT? I'm reasonably stuck with ideas and I feel that you may get sick and tired of Fashion Battles and the such. Would you like to see more real life fashion posts like this one?

TRIP TO PARIS FASHION WEEK (Episode 3)

So, now let's close this series of posts by talking about the most famous french brand ever... It's on our list, everyone wants a Chanel bag, such as everyone loves Chanel, right?

The Chanel woman, is very nature, she likes minerals and she surely enjoy classic colors, such as she always wore in her all life because of her mother who were already really classic. Chanel is here since so much time, that it's in her family.

She can also be called futuristic as she creates new volumes on her sleeves, uses some geometric forms and wears some cosmic jewelry on her eyebrows. Tweeds, silver coats, and metals also show her robot aspect of her futuristic idea of life.

Very urban, sometimes sportswear or even casual wear, she's more a woman that enjoys to be out and show her clothes.

One of her big news today, is to wear pants under her skirt. Now it's official, the trend is in for her and she'll wear it all the season till Karl say something else.

It's good to see this futuristic part of Chanel, the references are all really well worked out to show us an incredible collection. I'm kind of speechless in front of all these amazing pieces of Ready-To-Wear, I truly believe Karl made an amazing choice on the tissues and layers and of course it's now synonym of new things. Instead of making collections that wear just classics and formal, but still making fashion, Karl is now inventing new silhouettes and so create fashion.

So what do you think about this collection?

-AL

Paris Trip to the Fashion Week

Hello, there! I first want to tell you that a new Outlet of Victory & Klaus as just opened, Reece is the owner of if, me being the founder and writer for it now.It's a Fake Gossip blog and Street Style blog at the same time, called Klaus Gossips. I'd truly be happy if you could go there and follow. Just click here.

Now coming to my point, it's Fashion Week at Paris, and while Dior wants to turn the page of John Galliano, Louis Vuitton just make a comeback to the past with a real locomotive at the Louvre, and without forgetting the Karl Lagerfeld touch at Chanel. In this post I'll be studying the silhouettes, the references and let you know about the future Fall/Winter 2012-2013 trends, and what will be in fashion there. Please see it a bit like a tv documentary, I'll pop up with pictures that you should have in mind while I'm talking about something so you can better understand and see most of the show!

DIOR HAUTE COUTURE

So the Dior Couture woman is fully integrated in the 21rst century. She sometimes likes to be unseen by the crowd

wearing a simple black blazer and pants of the same color to just be perfectly class. But the Dior Couture woman is visionary, she turns the famous jacket into a coat that she enjoys in glamorous red.

'Paradox' is a word that she loves, even wearing a long dress, she shows us everything about her body

But still, it's important to her to have ball gowns. And she's now happy to get new ones! A waisted size, grey chic, contemporary aura are most part of the Dior Couture woman vocabulary.

After all, she's a taking risk woman. If it's not the neo-length of the dress that is new, it's the new kind of jumpsuit she's wearing.

Pockets make her put her hands in it, and walk unworried and relaxed. The organza just sublime opened add the touch of uniqueness she's keen on to make her look like a Dior woman.

Raf Simons knows well the Dior codes, and got them right on this collection. The outfits were accessorized in a minimalistic way, which let people see more into the clothes itself. With all of that, the silhouettes are really waisted size but for then look like a gown at the hips. The tissues are really specifics from Dior and just show their harmony by simply using them quite every time.

It's a good collection, that I'd call versatile, but that comeback of what make us recognize Dior from the others and is using today techniques to achieve in their ideas of the evolution of the Dior woman.

Then, I hope you enjoyed this post, it's quite risky and unseen to make such a post. But I got inspired... So please tell me if you like it, and say what you think about this Dior collection?

Be right back with episode 2, Louis Vuitton...

-AL

Posh Sneak Peeks

Hey guys!

Long time, no talk! I'm sorry I didn't post for like 2 month! 

It's just that I have really much to do in real life and  I was in London for 3 weeks. And because I don't have anything better to talk about I give you some sneak peeks for the upcoming fall issue of POSH.

Here you are:

What do you think? Are you excited for the next issue?

Chace

A Nordic Tribute To Chanel!

 Hello fashionable fellows, how are  you? Let me introduce myself shortly before I start; Linus Leonardsson is my name, Dog_boy96 on stardoll. I'm a 14 years old boy from Stockholm, Sweden who's got the grand honor of becoming one of the new writers for the one & only TTT! Lovely, isn't it? Here I will write about fashion & modeling, both stardoll-based as well as real-life based.

Anyhow, enough about me & going on with the post, I'm sure some of you must have heard about the newest collaboration of Chanel. The Swedish photography duo of Peter Farago & Ingela Klemetz-Farago has got the golden opportunity to work privately with the French fashion house. The theme of the project is Chanel in the Nordic, which means that Scandinavian models [such as Freja Beha Erichsen, Sigrid Ågren, Frida Gustavsson, Carmen Kass, Siri Tollerod etc.] are being photographed in typical Scandinavian & Nordic environments. The works will later at the 30th of June be opened up for the public to admire at Fotografiska in Stockholm. A book will also be published for everyone to buy here, with the foreword being written than no one else but Karl Lagerfeldt. Here are a few of the pictures which has already leaked out for us all to admire:

Sigrid Ågren

Theres Alexandersson & Linn Arvidsson

Siri Tollerod

Dorothea Barth-Jörgenssen

Amazing, are they not? & what is even more amazing, is that parts the money which will be made from the purchased books will go to the childhood-found of Save the Children! Both fashionable & fun, but helping as well! I know I'm crazy about this, but now I want to hear Your opinion about it! What do you think about the pictures? & what's your opinion about the project itself?

Linus