A lush visual selection from the Chanel archive—essential reading for fashionistas and design aficionados everywhere. Chanel's combination of tradition, originality, and style has always made it the most seductive of fashion labels. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from 1920 onwards. Dazzling clothes, intricate accessories, beautiful models, and timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of her name and embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel. The book explores five central themes—the suit, the camellia, jewelry, makeup and perfume, the little black dress—and follows the threads from past to present to show how these key items have been rediscovered and reinvented by new designers. It includes many previously unpublished archive photographs and original drawings by Karl Lagerfeld, as well as glorious images from some of the greatest names in fashion photography. 139 illustrations, 83 in color.

This book is Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld's reinterpretation of Chanel's iconic little black jacket. Lagerfeld has redesigned the jacket, transforming it into a modern, adaptable garment to be worn by both sexes of all ages. The Little Black Jacket contains Lagerfeld's photographs of celebrities wearing the jacket with individual flair - sometimes classic, sometimes irreverent, but always Chanel - and each styled by Carine Roitfeld. A range of accomplished actors, musicians, designers, models, writers and directors gets the little black jacket treatment, including Claudia Schiffer, Uma Thurman, Kanye West, Tilda Swinton, Baptiste Giabiconi, Yoko Ono and Sarah Jessica Parker. This book shows the astounding versatility of Chanel's vision in Lagerfeld's hands, and ensures the little black jacket's future as a timeless classic.

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一直以来，香奈儿公司将传统元素、创新特色与时尚风格融为一体，使其成为世界最具号召魅力的时尚品牌。在这里，香奈儿公司开启了一份份此前轻易不肯示人的时尚档案，展现出一系列由可可·香奈儿女士自20世纪20年代以后亲自创意推出的时尚设计，灿若星河、光彩照人。这些设计一经当代重新阐释演绎，便可成为新款时装、装饰配件以及美容产品的创意设计主题。 丹尼尔·博特编著的《香奈儿——收藏与创新(精)》的写作灵感来自于香奈儿公司的标志性香水产品，即有着传奇色彩的香奈儿5号香水。《香奈儿——收藏与创新(精)》集中探讨5个中心主题：时装、山茶花图案、珠宝、香水与化妆品、小黑裙，并通过追踪对比今昔发展脉络进而向读者展示新一代时尚设计师如何追随前辈时尚风范，如何针对上述5大类顶级时尚产品不断地重新探寻奥秘，并且发扬光大。 卡尔·拉格菲尔德拍摄的从未发表的时尚档案照片，还有出自他本人之手的时尚设计原稿，以及时尚摄影界一些顶级大师拍摄的靓丽影像作品，着实为书中展现的视觉盛宴之旅增色不少。 光彩夺目的时装、精致美巧的配饰、漂亮的模特、永不过时的时尚设计使香奈儿这一时尚品牌大名无可挑剔，体现了象征香奈儿品牌魅力的全部时尚内涵。

"One fine morning I woke up and decided that I was no longer happy with my physique. Although I was overweight, I had gotten along fine and had no health problems. But I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane….But these fashions, modeled by very, very slim boys—and not men of my age—required me to lose at least eighty pounds....I did not think that it was possible to lose so much weight in one year....[But] in fact, it took me exactly thirteen months." —Karl Lagerfeld "Karl Lagerfeld’s case is spectacular as it shows how it is possible, through determination and willpower, to return to a harmonious balance even when excess weight is of a long-standing, deeply ingrained nature. I hope that many will be inspired by the example of the slimmed-down, elegant, and indefatigable Karl Lagerfeld to lose either the few pounds they feel should be sacrificed for their happiness or the several dozen pounds that are detrimental to their survival." —Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret The Karl Lagerfeld Diet , developed exclusively for Karl Lagerfeld by Dr. Jean-Claude Houdret, reveals the secret techniques of Lagerfeld’s amazing weight loss regimen. By first addressing the mental and behavioral causes of varying degrees of obesity, this book provides valuable insights and useful tips for preparing the mind and developing the willpower necessary to commit to this diet. It then provides one hundred twenty gourmet recipes devised by Dr. Houdret, which cover breakfast, soups, starters and salads, eggs, seafood and fish, meat, pasta and pizza, vegetables, sauces, and desserts. Topping it off, Lagerfeld provides his personal tips for staying slim, attractive, and fit with additional chapters on skin care procedures, cosmetic treatments and surgery, general medical care, stress management, giving up tobacco, sleep, and exercise. Both an instructional guide and a motivational coach, The Karl Lagerfeld Diet is the ultimate accessory for healthy living.