Posted in fashion, my wall, style, tagged fashion, Helen Hunt, Oscars 2013 on 02/25/2013| Leave a Comment »
Looks like Sharon Stone will have to give up her title of Most Frugal Oscars Dresser. (The actress famously stunned when she showed up at the 1996 Academy Awards in a Gap turtleneck.) Hunt has out-bargained Stone by wearing this midnight blue silk and satin strapless dress.”
Not even knowing the price or designer of Helen Hunt’s dress, I’d still say the style suited her and she wore it well…!
Posted in culture, fashion, lifestyle, my wall, style, tagged Bloglovin, culture, marketing, social media on 08/27/2012| Leave a Comment »
A new way to blog! I’ve now connected StarintheStone to Bloglovin as a new way to connect.
I’d like to invite my followers to join me there as well and keep on lovin’ our blogs! lol
Posted in fashion, my wall, style, tagged Chanel, eyes, fashion, groove, lips, lipstick, style on 08/27/2012| Leave a Comment »
and just to be fair to a different brand…
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Posted in fashion, my wall, style, tagged fashion, humor, L'Anvin, real people on 08/27/2012| Leave a Comment »
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Lanvin Fall/Winter 2012 campaign, has released this video. The campaign featured real, regular people (not models or reality stars), and now we get a glimpse of the quirky individuality of each with behind-the-scenes footage and audio. My personal favorite, is the bearded man who is confident the stylish digs will get him a government grant. I wonder if they did?!
Made me smile, anyway.
Posted in culture, fashion, lifestyle, my wall, Random thoughts, relationships, style, tagged fashion, lifestyle, prostitution, relationships, sex trade, women on 08/10/2012| 1 Comment »
fashion, pretty girls, and other things with price tags
I spend a lot of time criticising the boys who work on Wall Street, but if you’re not after anything too cerebral they can be quite good fun to hang out with. Fraser and Kathleen started spending a lot of time together in a weird sexless mini-clique. There had been rumours flying round that her job wasn’t as secure as it might be, and I think she was keen to get close to anyone who could help her career.
As a girl, you get used to bawdy comments from guy-friends. One of the things that really shocked me about the city guys was the number of them who had been with call-girls. Usually on foreign trips where nobody knew them, but sometimes at home in New York. “Their work builds up a lot of testosterone,” Lina would say, “they have to let off steam somehow.”
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Posted in creativity, fashion, my wall, style, tagged Chanel, designers, fashion, Karl Lagerfeld, Vogue, Voguepedia on 08/10/2012| Leave a Comment »
Voguepedia | Karl Lagerfeld
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Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. Published in Vogue, December 2003.
Lagerfeld has become far more than just a fashion phenomenon. With runway conquests at the houses of Chloé, Fendi, and Chanel, and as a remarkable barometer of the twenty-first-century zeitgeist, he is an industry unto himself. In a business that tosses the word “icon” about with reckless abandon, he is genuinely iconic, wielding his trademark fan and his repertoire of witticisms—sometimes 
provocative, often amusing, and always Karl. Old enough to be the grandfather of some of his Parisian competitors, he is a modern Oscar Wilde, a black-leather dandy with a rock-and-roll pout.
In the deep, all-knowing German voice that could belong to no other, Karl Lagerfeld declared in 1984, “I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.” In this—as in so many things—he was, if perhaps not self-effacing, extremely prescient. Today, the influence of his designs is rivaled only by the infamy of his ever-present dark sunglasses (“They’re my burka,” he has professed), his magnetic pull towards controversy, and his tendency to say things like, “Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.”
Fifty-seven years after Vogue first showed readers Coco Chanel’s innovative LBD in 1926, the company was placed in Lagerfeld’s studded, fingerless-gloved hands, and neither the LBD nor Chanel were ever the same.
“My job,” Lagerfeld has said, “is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.” In a way, this is what he did for the Chanel image, as well: Its elegance and dignity had lost their clout among the sixties generation of jeans-and-miniskirts-wearers, but Lagerfeld was able to transform the house into the ultimate purveyor of bad-girl chic (wealthy bad girl, that is). He was, it turned out, the perfect designer to bring the nodding camellias back to life. “Tradition is something you have to handle carefully, because it can kill you,” he told Vogue in 1984. “Respect was never creative.”
In his first years as creative director, Lagerfeld was accused by some critics of going too far—so
far as to desecrate their hallowed memories of Chanel. He threw so much leather and chains into his early collections that his old friend Yves Saint Laurent balked: Chanel, he said, had become “frightening, sadomasochistic.” “Who can say what is good taste and what is bad taste?” the designer has countered. “Sometimes bad taste is more creative than good taste.”
Although he has a love of the eighteenth century—he views it as both the most polite and the most modern period, a time when “no one was young; no one was old. Everyone had white hair”—Lagerfeld is firmly planted in 
the now. “Fuck the good old days,” he told Vogue in 2004. “Today has to be okay, too. If not you make something second-rate out of the present.”
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see the rest of the article: Voguepedia | Karl Lagerfeld
Posted in fashion, style, tagged Blahnik, decoupee, grille, high heels, Rossi, sandals, treillis, Valentino, Vogue on 07/19/2012| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in culture, fashion, lifestyle, style, tagged Chanel, Coco Chanel, fashion, Karl Lagerfeld, motorcycles, MV Agusta Cilindri, retro, style on 07/15/2012| 1 Comment »
A classic Italian racer. While a 3-cylinder engine was not exactly a novelty (others had experimented with this configuration) it was undoubtedly the first to achieve such brilliant performance. A full 92 HP at 13,500 RPM, lightness and excellent handling made this 500 the most successful of the MV stable. Following its 1966 debut, it won 7 consecutive world championships from 1967 to 1973 with G. Agostini. That was no easy feat. Wouldn’t you love to ride this machine on a race track?
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Apparently Karl Lagerfeld also loves the classics, as he is seen with a version of this machine here. What a bike; what a guy!
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Posted in culture, fashion, my wall, style, tagged 2011 Fall/Winter, Bombay, Chanel, fashion, haute couture, Paris on 07/15/2012| Leave a Comment »
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In complete contrast to the austerity present in the current Chanel 2012 Fall/Winter preview, last year’s show took us to the stunning and lavishly decorated scheme in Bombay, India. Most noteable, were the adaptations to foreign textiles and trends. Never would I have imagined to see conservative Chanel models touting dredlocks and tatoos! But they were, and were beautiful as always, bejewelled with the Indian style hairchains and finger bracelets. Golden slippers with pointed toes, and jodhpur pants under split short-waisted skirts, wide jewelled belts and silky kaftans, it all had quite an exotic and memorable appeal. I’m not sure it found wide acceptance in American markets, though.
Posted in fashion, style, tagged Chanel, coats, cocktail dresses, grey, haute couture, jackets, Karl Lagerfeld, plaid, skirts, tweed on 07/15/2012| Leave a Comment »
Chanel Fall/Winter 2012 Show Grand Palais, Paris. July 4.
It is amazing that so many different varieties of greys and plaids, appeared in Chanel’s Fall/Winter 2012 show. Large and small tweed patterns, and quite a bit of texture woven into the designs; even shiny metallics to provide contrast, and the pink a bit of warmth. 
There is only so much one can take, of greys, and plaids, though, no matter the designer. 
These fabrics and textures tend to add bulk, especially the large plaid patterns with heavy fibers. Ordinary women who are not tall, svelt supermodels, might find themselves lost in a froth of grey fluff, puffed to the gills with belts and big buttons…And the kaftan length coats seemed a bit like long bathrobes, others had the feeling of quilted blankets.
But several of the shorter coats with petite patterns did seem more practical and conventional for everyday wear.
And I did especially like the fluidity of one lighter, metallic pink shawl wrap coat, and this would also make nice evening wear.
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As I mentioned previously, this particular show seemed to have a retrospective feel, reverting to some of the classic Chanel shapes — short, boxy jackets with militaristic lines and austere severity, despite the fluffy textures and color pink. Coco Chanel might have been flattered, but some of the styles of the 50’s don’t seem to be appropriate on the modern woman, in my opinion.
However, there were several cocktail dresses that appealed to me, having qualities completely at odds with Chanel’s classic look, with its severe lines. I found particularly humorous, one dress that looked like the slip of a 40’s fan dancer, with its fringe and lacey look, straight out of a bordello.
However the input of sateen and lame’ fabrics added smooth fluidity and femininity to the lineup, and several skirt designs featured long length with flared bottoms, creating a particularly non-traditional Chanel silhouette which I found very flattering and attractive. These cocktail dresses, still in muted classic coloration, were among my favorites. There were several pieces which pushed the boundaries of good taste, 
one in particular being a kaftan in cream with metallic sheen, and hot pink dipped edges which pushed my buttons… But the several I did like, have erased the memory of that particular shocker from my mind, lol.
That being said, I did like the use of a new type of fingerless elbow length glove, which covered the arms below princess sleeves. And I especially like the plunging tuxedo bow topping the form-fitting sateen cocktail dresses. In addition to the flared skirts, the elegance of these pieces was classic and timeless, and restored my faith in the appeal of Chanel. Bravo!
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