Allow me spice up your Tuesday afternoon and let your eyes feast on current Chanel bags and accessories available via Chanel boutiques nationwide.
For more information, please call the Chanel store at Saks Philadelphia at (610) 667-1550.
Ready, set, lust!
Fashion people are hard to shop for, and vintage lovers especially so. Walking into a consignment shop or secondhand store and knowing what’s real and what’s fake, let alone what is cool and what’s not, can be an insanely difficult task for anyone but the most seasoned of vintage shoppers, and if you’re trying to find one a nice Christmas present, well, godspeed.
If your budget is extravagant, though, the vintage gods of What Goes Around Comes Around may be able to help with their selection of new-to-you Chanel handbags. ShopBop has been carrying the company’s Chanel finds for quite some time now, and some new pieces have come in just in time for the holidays. If you have a keen eye, you can probably find vintage Chanel for less, but with these pieces the authenticity is guaranteed. If your budget is a bit smaller (but still quite large), ShopBop also has a metric ton of Chanel costume jewelry available. The above bags are priced at $2995 and $2860, respectively.
This weekend I would like to be in San Francisco because of one word: Chanel. This weekend Chanel San Francisco is having an event called “Secrets of the CHANEL Handbag“. The exhibit with both give people the opportunity to see how their iconic handbags are made and also learn the secrets of Mademoiselle Chanel’s handbag.
We will have a post coming soon with more information on beloved and coveted classic Chanel bags. Until then, if you are in or near San Fran, you should def stop by Chanel this weekend and take part in their event!
Over the past few seasons, I’ve noticed more and more Chanel fans expressing disappointment of one sort or another with the brand’s handbags. Too gimmicky, too expensive, not loyal enough to the brand’s customer base – we heard at least one, if not all, of those opinions every time we posted about a Chanel bag in this space. If you’re a former client who has found yourself disenchanted, you may want to take a look at the bags from Chanel Spring 2011.
It’s difficult to term this collection a return to form, since the brand seems to always churn out a few sought-after bags every season, no matter what. So I’ll just say this: many of the bags that went down the runway in Paris’s Grand Palais yesterday presented wearable, luxurious, aesthetically pleasing options for grown women in a variety of situations. From tiny, glittering flap evening bags to clutches made to look like old leather-bound books, the inventiveness of seasons past was still present; it just managed to show up alongside things like oversized 2.55 leather clutches without a gimmick in sight.
Even if you don’t count yourself among Chanel‘s fans, you have to admit that there are a few things Karl & Co. do very well. Chiefly among them are the gorgeously detailed and often-exotic flap bags that the company releases every season in its Outstanding Pieces capsule collection, which is exactly what it sounds like – the best of the best from one of the world’s biggest handbag brands. Close-up pictures of all four of Fall 2010′s outstanding bags, which use alligator, stingray and python skins, after the jump.
Remember that time when Karl Lagerfeld imported a chunk of glacier for the Chanel show in Paris and then showed a collection full of faux fur and what can only be described as yeti costumes? That seems like a long time ago, doesn’t it? Well, it was just six months ago, and now the bags from that collection are available for perusal on Chanel.com.
Some of the collection already popped up in the form of Pre-Fall 2010, but now the entirety of the line has landed and we’ve collected the pictures on your behalf. The designs range from useable, reasonable caramel-colored leather bags to wacky faux-fur-tufted creations that are only for fashion’s, uh, boldest individuals. My personal favorite is the ice cube clutch – let us know which ones you like in the comments. As always, photos are after the jump.
I don’t dig the all-jean look that some people in fashion have embraced over the past six months, but it’s hard to argue with any outfit that includes a giant Chanel Flap Bag in one of the dusky military colors favored by fall’s trends. Photoblogger extraordinaire Tommy Ton, working the events at Lincoln Center for Style.com, managed to capture just that on the street in New York City.
You can find Ton’s Fashion Week coverage at Style.com, or visit his blog at Jak & Jil.
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