Madonna has contributed a pair of black and white Chanel boots (preworn and autographed) for a fundraising auction being held at her daughter Lourdes’ school, LaGuardia High School, a public high school located in New York City’s Upper West Side. This school is often referrred to as “The Fame School,” for the movie which was inspired by it. More recently, Alicia Keys [UPDATE: Keys attended Professional Performing Arts School not LaGuardia] and Nick Minaj are a couple of its more famous attendees and there are many, many more.
Not sure what program Lourdes is a part of, but whatever it is, she had to try out for her spot. Laguardia is one of a handful of highly-ranked New York City public high schools for which you have to meet very high test-in or try-out entry standards to be admitted. As for what those boots may bring to the school, the highest bid at the moment is $2,860, with three days left.
Despite lukewarm reception to previous efforts, Karl Lagerfeld remains undeterred, directing another film, The Tale Of A Fairy Tale, using it as a tool to promote the Cruise 2011/2012 collection. The video here features just a clip from the short film, which will include Anna Mouglalis, Amanda Harlech, Kristen McMenamy, Freja Beha, Bianca Balti, Baptiste Giabiconi, Brad Koening, Jake Davies, Mark Vanderloo, Oriol Elcacho, Sébastien Jondeau, and Seth Kuhlmann. The full version will be available to view at Chanel tomorrow.
Here are Chanel’s nail polish shades for Summer 2011. They’re part of a summer makeup collection called, “Les Fleurs d’Ete de Chanel.” The “Mimosa” yellow has received tons of press already. The other shades are cute, but hardly groundbreaking. To see the makeup in the collection visit Temptalia.
Another sneak peek from the upcoming film promoting Chanel’s frangrance, Coco Mademoiselle. Fronted by Keira Knightly and directed by Joe Wright, this spot features the actress in a beige Chanel jump suit about to take a spin on a Ducati 750SS Cafe Racer motorcycle. (A site dedicated to the Cafe Racer has stills of Knightly on the bike, which were taken during the making of the film.) The full feature will be shown on Chanel’s site on March 21st.
Chanel presented its Autumn 2011 ready-to-wear collection for Paris Fashion Week today and as always the arrivals were as entertaining as the runway presentation itself. Karl’s girls always go all out, many of them wearing Chanel head to toe or at the very least carrying a quilted bag or clutch. Above is major girl of the moment, Alexa Chung, on the next page Lily Allen, Anna Wintour, Duffy, Emma Roberts, Leigh Lezark, plus a few more.
Colette launched its pop-up shop with Colette last week and we noticed that among planned events was an appearance by artist Fafi to customize Chanel bags. As delightful a match as Chanel and Colette are, adding artist Fafi to the mix is liking adding hot fudge to the sundae so of course Highsnobiety was on hand to document the event. See many more images on the next page.
Here is Blake Lively’s first super low-key ad for Chanel for the label’s Mademoiselle bag line. Via FGR. If you didn’t know it was her, you’d never guess.
We already posted some images from the Colette X Chanel pop-up shop and here via photographer Olivier Saillant are some more, which give a wider angle on how the shop is set up and merchandised. Looks a sheer delight, well done as always by Colette and props to Chanel for taking a chance and extending the brand in an edgier direction. More on the next page. Images courtesy of Colette.
Images from Colette’s pop-up Chanel store are starting to show up, starting with our very own HighSnobiety, which visited the store yesterday. This images shows a bag customized by artist Kevin Lyons, who was making an appearance at the store at the time of HS’s visit. On the next page, an image from Stylebubble, which details planned activities for the next week, including handbag customization by Fafi (!!) and two different nails bars (!!!). Many more images at HS and SB.
