mini brad kroenig lands CHANEL cruise 2015 ad campaign with my puerto rican lover joan smalls!

Little Hudson Kroenig is no stranger to the fashionsphere as we've seen him time and time again strut his little swagger alongside his male model legend dad Brad Kroenig on the CHANEL runway... so it's about time the little dude got some ad campaign lensing from Lagerfeld! Not only does the kiddo look like a bonafide lounging master but hommie got to hang around with the incomparable and sexy-can-I official title holder, Joan Smalls! This kid is quite possibly the coolest 6 year old on the playground in the entire world! Hell, he's a lot cooler then me and I've once sat two rows behind Jimmy Fallon at an off-broadway show about Russian clowns! Ok, maybe that's not a good example of my cool factor and something I should probably keep to myself. The Middle-Eastern resort themed ad campaign is reLUXing (I just made that up; relaxing in a luxe way) and makes me want to head to Dubai to practice my professional fancy couch-potato skills. Also, it's always awesome to see a beautiful Latina take the face of a global and prestigious maison like that of CHANEL. I may not always see normal eyes to beady eyes with Lagerfeld but this time I'll tip my hat forward to him!

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jared leto rocks cowgirl chanel at chanel haute couture show!

All the fancy ladie$ of the world flew into Paris to attend the CHANEL Haute Couture show, but little did they know they'd be out-styled by one Mr. Jared Leto! Homeboy came into town yippy-ki-yay'ing in some gold tweed pants and boots from the CHANEL Paris-Dallas Métiers d'Art RTW 2014 collection.

I already have insane respect for him for launching a human rights campaign that is close to my heart, The #REALMENWEARLEGGINGS Coalition of Instagram, so this just cements Jared as an all time hero in my books. I mean for fucks sake, he's a rocker, an Oscar winner, AND wears women's CHANEL in a cool nonchalant way?? Comment dit-on en Francais: bad ass?!??

Truthfully, I really think it's rad that he's playing around with fashion and blending gender-wear lines. I for one have gone to the CHANEL store in San Francisco and tried on some of their lady outerwear and I have to admit it was definitely do-able as menswear. But seeing that my Black American Express Card only exists in my dreams, I left without it. Anywho... where was I? Oh, yes. Rock on, Jared!

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you would also have this face if you thought you were getting lace, pearls, and fancy coco chanel things and instead got dread locks, heavy ass bling, and heroine slut eye makeup.

LAUGH.
(But, I'd be the first to rock the grave-yard-cry-of-Coco out of this!!)

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the man-haraja wore chanel

Lagerfeld held his 'Metier's d'Art' court yesterday at the Grand Palais in Paris with an intricately beautiful homage to Indian culture for his CHANEL Pre Fall 2012 collection. While I expected the fashionsphere (and myself) to hand over their souls to Lagerfeld as they oooh'ed, aaaah'ed, and coochie popped about the lady creations (I did), I wasn't expecting to gravel upon some man-digs dipped in rupee-loving. Yeeyaaaahh!

The modern take on the great Maharaja's of India into menswear is freaking awesome. The looks are royally grand, freshly clean and have the perfect amount of bling. I'm fascinated with Lagerfeld showing us what the CHANEL man (rare breed, but they do exist!!!) would don as formalwear for the 2012 season. I absolutely dig them all, even the flashiest look of the brocade coat and the Ghandied out rendition of Aretha Franklin's infamous Obama inaugural bow hat titillate me. But the pièce look de résistance is definitely this bad boy:

From the radly draped maroon zip up to the pant-on-pant action with a black shoe... it's a look that has an extreme wearability factor. I respect the tweed out of CHANEL but it's a bit hard to take most of Lagerfeld's creations from a fantasy design world to the actual real mortal world, at least so effortlessly, so this entire look is making my nipples harder than this cold San Francisco weather! I could easily jump the model back stage, high jack this entire look like I did with the entire Marc Jacobs Spring 2012 collection (yes, it was me, guilty!), and then walk the streets to head to class while simultaneously being snapped up by the lenses of Bill Cunningham or The Sartorialist. Yeah, these digs are THAT epic!! Jai ho, mothalovahs, j a i mothalovahing h o!!

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take a dip under the sea with chanel s/s 2012.

There's always a ton of shows to pay attention to during fashion week, especially Paris Fashion Week. I know, I know... as a fashion loving chap (fashion blogger sounds stupid to me) I should be keeping up to date with it all, but I've got a life to drink away. While some collections get 10 minutes of my time, some get a whopping 2 hours of it. CHANEL is one of them.

This time around Karl Lagerfart decided to take us under, what I think to be, a winter wonderland Easter-esque sea promenade. The color ways were beautiful tones of faint blues, corals, sea foam greens that created siren creations of dresses (apparently the Chanel woman doesn't wear pantalones or shorts for the s/s 2012 season) in lightweight tweeds, leathers, and chiffon.

In general, I find every CHANEL piece to be very couture-like, even though it doesn't fall under the haute couture collections. The impeccable attention to detail by Lagerfart is always damn supreme. I literally spent 3 hours just zooming in and out of this collection and pretty much having an OCD visual orgasm. I digged the use of silently embedded pockets, the multi-purposeful useage of pearls as buttons, belts, and hair pins, and most importantly the stupefying manipulation of shredded & non-shredded chiffon and tweed to create the illusion of fish scales. Plus the use of iridescent chiffon in some of the creations was complete underwater genius.

Oh, and before I go, another thing I thoroughly cried in a "holy Baby Jesus, F I N A L L Y!!" praise was the decrease of ill fitting boxy & matronly shapes that I find CHANEL to be plagued with. Seriously, a lot of their past pieces look like bedazzled & printed potato sacks to me. But this time around I found slimmingly sensual silhouettes that would be fit for any fancy shmancy mermaid.

After the jump are 43 of my favorite sea monkey creations from the 80+ look set, enjoy:

Click, click, click↓↓↓ mothalovahs!!

comment dit-on "EPIC FAIL" en Français? oh oui, Blake Lively for Mademoiselle CHANEL.

Blake Lively. Where do I begin. I'm having some trouble understanding how much of a grip on the fashiongame she has and why Anna Wintour thinks she's the best thing since she discovered the only plastic surgeon that does the 35 minute lunch-lipo is on the same block as her VOGUE headquarters. I became even more concerned when Karl Lagerfart announced her as the face of his Mademoiselle bag for CHANEL. No one can't deny that Blake is damn gorgeous and sizzling hot. But I also happen to know exclusively that Blake was birthed by short Marchesa dresses and a pair of sexilicous tan long legs in a science lab. So her and CHANEL? Not a likely pair. But perhaps Karl was thinking he'd capitalize on her sex chicka-bow-wow appeal and give CHANEL some gusto. But NOPE. Instead we're left with images of Blake right after undergoing a labotomy at the Rue Chambon shop. 

What I find particularly hilarious is that there were rumors flying around that many CHANEL honchos were concerned that Blake was "too off brand"- pretty much, she was too much of a ho-looking floozy. And I guess their concerns were heard because Blake looks so freaking blah and dead in the face. But it gets even more hilarious because some bitches over at CHANEL PR's dungeon came out to defend Blake: 

“Blake’s spontaneity and fresh youthful image have convinced Chanel that she is the right person to represent the house and this range of bags.”

Ummm, did they not get the memo that they decided to go with the "I've only had a Cheez-It all day" zombie look with Blake??? I've seen potatoes and zuchini's (yeah I don't know why I used vegetables but whatever) with more spontaneity and fresher looking than Blake does in this ad campaign. And I know there's been a series of budget cuts and all but did they really have to resort to having their intern use PhotoBucket for photoshopping?? The first picture leaves me concerned because those fingers look like octopus tentacles. Her index finger looks like it's trying to stretch itself out of the shot because he knew how much of an embarrassing dud these photos would be. He would not be associated with Blake nor CHANEL. And the second one is a plain out copycat bust because Natalie Portman already did the whole "Crazy psycho lurking in the mirrors" bit in Black Swan:

For shame on this whole catastrophe of undiluted boredom. FOR SHAME! Oh, how I enjoy when the Lagerfart fails. Fortunately the Mademoiselle sector of CHANEL wasn't brought down by Blake because Kiera Knightly's campaign is on fire!!

Now that's how you give good face! Kiera, you better sprinkle some of that onto Blake before her ass gets fired or we get another eyesore (Zeus knows that Lagerfart will not back down).

And yes, I do refer to him as LagerFART-- no typo.

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