sunday afternoon.....x

a sunny start turned dull, grey & cold very quickly today, so gardening was very quickly crossed off the list of today's tasks to be replaced by an afternoon watching movies.....*the piano* & *coco avant chanel*.....both beautiful, with gorgeous costumes, and both made me cry....

{images from *coco avant chanel*}

i love the top picture; the colours, the striped bathing tents, the pretty lace parasols

ps. a little bit of sun tomorrow would be very much appreciated
xx

lily & chanel x

love, love, love
the chanel adverts featuring the lovely lily

walking up to the chanel in hong kong, you're greeted with this wonderful image, a great homage to the equally lovely miss hepburn.......x

hope your week is going well
xx

lace x

i love the ethereal quality that all these photos have

and
would love to have lace like this in my home

credits for photos clockwise from top left
*we heart it *danske
*lobster&swan *we heart it

"i consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature: lace always evokes for me those incomporable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and i do not think any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin"
coco chanel, 29th april 1939

xx

one more thing before i go.....x

some gorgeousness from chanel.......

fall 2009 ready to wear

all images from style.com

is it so wrong to covet pink lacey knit legwarmers?

xx

fashion friday *chanel* x

fashion friday again, and seems only fitting that in the week "coco avant chanel" is released in france, that this week we should pay homage to coco chanel....

*a girl should be two things: classy and fabulous*

*a woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future*

*elegance does not consist of putting on a new dress *

*fashion fades, only style remains the same*

*fashion is made to become unfashionable*

*in order to be irreplacable one must always be different*

*luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury*

*look for the woman in the dress. if there is no woman, there is no dress*

*since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them*

*those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous*

*there have been several duchesses of westminster but there is only one chanel*

all quotes from coco chanel
catwalk photo's from style.com

wishing you a fabulously fashionable friday
xx

coco chanel x

the film "coco avant chanel" is realeased in france today
the lovely audrey tatou, wonderful clothes, beautiful cinematography
i can't wait for it's release here in the uk

see the trailer here

more chanel on friday xx