The first and long-awaited CHANEL boutique in St. Petersburg opened its doors December 20, 2012 in the building of the “Nevsky 152″ gallery on Nevsky Prospekt (avenue). St. Petersburg was a very special place in the biography and work of Mademoiselle Chanel. She had a very close relationships with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov.…
Tireless great Karl, whose talents do not fit within the five annual shows of the “mother” house Chanel plus two as a guest designer for Fendi, not for the first time creates an “inter-seasonal” themed collection. After a fashion trip to Moscow in 2008, Shanghai in 2009 and Mumbai in 2011, the designer invited the…
The second day of the Asian Haute Couture Week continued designers from Japan. Defile of the three leading couture houses of the Country of the Rising Sun destroyed my European clichés of Japanese fashion design as something black and white, multilayered-shapeless and too conceptual. Bright and so different from each other collection were only united…
Singapore is often called the “Chinese Monaco.” It is home to the most affluent and accustomed to a high level of comfort members of the society of consumption. Expensive sports cars and luxury boutiques in Singapore are as natural as in its Mediterranean namesake. The difference is only in the scale of the luxury: in…