Chanel

The age-old rainy day footwear conundrum: even Hunters, a.k.a. “Wellies,” which were trendy for awhile (thanks to Kate Moss at the Glastonbury Festival a few years ago) look ordinary. I need something to uplift my wet-weather blues. Chanel, you’ve saved me again! Avoid the dreaded “drowned rat” look by adding these gleaming rain boots to [...]

Anyone who has watched the online video of the 2011 Chanel Haute Couture show may have noted that each and every look was shown with flats. Of course, these are not your average round-toed ballet flat–though they are made from the heavy satin of a dancer’s slipper. The toe box is pointed and the straps [...]

For those wanting an alternative to the Christian Louboutin nude wedge, might I suggest this Chanel number. With no CC logo in sight, Chanel instead has installed its iconic, yet discreet, chain detail along the base of the wedge. Yes, it’ll probably get dirty quickly–and will the metal rust if exposed to the elements?–but in [...]

Ladies, summer can’t come soon enough for these babies to make their debut from Malibu to the Hamptons. Chanel’s shoes may often be too trendy for most, but their ballet flats and thong sandals are always classic and timeless. To wit, I love these stoned jewel thongs. The simple metallic silver frame means they’ll universally [...]

Sensible shoes were aplenty at Tuesday’s Chanel show. Boring right? But not where Karl Lagerfeld is concerned, who whimsically applied the maison’s iconic tweed to the side soles of platform sandals and all over boots in the name of a reinvention. Several pairs of ankle boots, all with chunky black platforms, featured intricate façades–including one [...]

Karl Lagerfeld loves to commemorate a moment, and what better happenstance than the reopening of Chanel’s groundbreaking Soho store? A python peep toe pump and python ballerina flat are among the Soho exclusive shoes that will launch when the store officially opens on Friday. The iconic ballet flat is re-imagined in red or iridescent grey [...]