Blake Lively: white flowers and green passion

The always gorgeous, Blake Lively, stepped out for attending premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Green Lantern” held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on June 15.

 

23-year-old ‘Gossip Girl’ star made her stunning appearance, wearing a super beautiful and dreamy red carpet gown. Blake Lively was clad in a stunning white Chanel Couture gown with floral embellishments.

 

 Blake Lively white gown featured a floor-sweeping sheer skirt that gave a glimpse of her toned legs. Hot Blake Lively accessorized her look with chunky and trendy gold jewelry.

Many bold bangles and two classy rings added class and glam to her lovely look. 
Blake Lively’s jewelry amazingly complemented her blonde strands too.

This big screen beauty styled her shiny locks in loose side braid. She decorated it with exquisite hair jewelry and looked like a Greek Goddess.

Sparkly eyeshadow, pink lipstick, curly eyelashes and stunningly pretty makeup completed her eye-popping look. Blake was joined by her on-screen man, Ryan Reynolds, who was looking amazing in his designer suit.

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Chanel: who wants to fire Karl Lagerfeld?

Somebody at Chanel may look ready to make your shoes,Mr Lagerfeld, but looking at your show, who could be as crazy as to replace one of the most talented creators on the scene since...ever!
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The show to happen two days before Cannes Film Festival. (Pictures by Reuters)

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Ines de la Fressenge: How to dress French

The French know fashion, this is hard to deny. And there are few Frencher, or chicer than Inès de la Fressange. The ex-model and Chanel muse is known for her consistently polished yet effortless dress sense. Putting her fashion know-how to good use, Ms Fressange has penned Parisian Chic: A Style Guide. Apart from suggesting we shop in the men's department, age gracefully, and avoid trends like the devil, Inès has some gems of fashion wisdom to share:

• "Better a genuine straw bag than a fake luxury label. Counterfeit is counterfashion!"
• "Jeans are never too risky; they're a little like salt — they go with everything!"
• "The little black dress is not simply an item of clothing, it's a concept. It's abstract, it's universal — which means there's one that's perfect for everyone."
• "Never, ever buckle the belt properly like a good little girl. Tie it in front or behind with the buckle hanging loose. Unobtrusive fashion statements like this...are very, very Parisian."
• "Push back or roll up the sleeves — the ultimate 'easy chic' statement. Even better when the lining's a different colour."
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Would you wait 7 months for a handbag?

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It could be a queue for a pop concert, a top nightclub or even the opening night at the theatre. But the hundreds of people lined up in a Hong Kong street are actually waiting to bag a bit of luxury.

“We're looking for new handbags,” says student Celeste Law as she queues patiently alongside her friend Karina Luh outside the supermarket-sized branch of Chanel on Hong Kong's Canton Road.

The students, both 20, already sport impressive accessories - Celeste carries a Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag, while her friend's is from Chanel.

Both work part-time and saved for over a year to buy their trophies.

“We want them because of the famous brand,” said Celeste. “What can I say? People will focus on your bag. It's about feeling confident.”

Even on a weekday morning, Canton Road is flooded with shoppers happy to pay a small fortune for a luxury tote, shoulder bag or evening clutch in its jumbo designer stores.

Many are from the Chinese mainland, and some even carry suitcases to get their purchases home. The market for such luxury has extended far beyond China's roughly 900,000 US dollar millionaires.

The market is now being driven by China's burgeoning middle class, with the truly rich going ever further upmarket - happily spending tens of thousands of dollars on the right bag.

Handbag sales for Prada alone grew by over 80 percent in China in 2010, Sebastian Suhl, chief operating officer at the Prada Group, told AFP, while those of the group's Miu Miu brand rocketed by over 500 percent.

“We believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of China's potential,” Suhl added.

The brokerage firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets predicts China will become the world's largest luxury goods market by 2020, accounting for 44 percent of worldwide sales and bigger than the entire global market is now.

Christina Ko, who blogs at HK Fashion Geek, said the Asian love of the luxury bag has become “a cultural fact. In the same way that Asians prefer rice to potatoes, they also prefer luxury handbags to non-branded ones.”

But as customers become more sophisticated, the demand is changing - bringing those who would previously have bought fakes into the market for the real thing.

“Middle class people are getting the Louis Vuitton bags, and the people who used to get them are now looking for something else,” Amanda Lee, who writes the Hong Kong-based blog Fashionography, told AFP.

Zuki Ho, a sales associate and mother, is one of the middle-class buyers boosting the industry: she owns 15 luxury handbags, and once spent HK$40,000 (US $5,135) “double her monthly salary” on a handbag.

She says she loves handbags because “I enjoy being watched on the street when I'm carrying the bag.” But she would never buy a fake - “I'm afraid of being found out,” she added.

Fakes remain big business in China, but genuine luxury is bigger.

And while women are a growing force in the Chinese designer market, men are not immune, competing fiercely over the most stylish 'man bag'.

At the second-hand luxury handbag store Milan Station in Hong Kong's upmarket Central district, bags sometimes sell for more than their retail price.

“People always ask for some kind of limited edition, a more expensive bag,” supervisor Jackie Lau told AFP. “People don't feel guilty about it (buying a designer bag) because it's like an investment.”

Customers can trade in their bags and take to the streets with a new one as often as they like, while those lucky enough to make it onto waiting lists for limited-edition bags can sell them straight to a second-hand store for a profit.

A waiting list is common for a truly coveted bag, with a wait of several months currently the norm for Mulberry's Alexa bag.

The ultimate bag of desire remains the Hermes Birkin, which famously takes 18 hours to make by hand. The crocodile skin version uses the finest sections of hide from four crocodiles.

It costs from $9,000 to an astounding $160,000 for one of the top diamond-studded models, a Hermes spokeswoman told AFP.

Chinese women appeared immune to the “luxury shame” that affected females in other parts of the world during the global economic downturn, the consultancy Bain & Company said last year.

But while handbags are traditionally used to broadcast one's success and good fortune, this too may be changing as more and more women join the designer-toting club.

Lee herself has a denim Chanel bag, a gift from family - but carries it “so that no one sees the double C (logo)”, she said.

“People would know (who the designer was) already if they were really into Chanel, from the shape and so on, but I feel like there's no need to let the entire world know.” - AFP

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Lily Allen's wedding dress designer Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld at Paris Fashion Week | Mail Online

Brave Lily Allen arrives in Paris to meet her wedding dress designer, Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld

She has shunned the spotlight and kept quiet since tragically losing her baby late last year.

But today the brave singer was back in the limelight as she attended the Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week.

The 25-year-old headed to Karl Lagerfeld's studio to discuss plans for her wedding dress, before going to the Grand Palais to see his latest collection.

Smiling again: Lily Allen poses with Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld at his Autumn/Winter 2011 show in Paris, after revealing he will create her wedding dress

Brief sojourn: Lily popped over to Paris today to watch the Chanel show before heading back to London on the Eurostar

Photographed outside Lagerfeld's studio, she said: 'I’m here to see Karl for my wedding dress.'

Allen is set to wed builder Sam Cooper - who she started dating in summer 2009 - later this year.

Supporting the brand, Allen was carrying two Chanel quilted handbags, which she teamed with a tweed coat and ballet pumps.As she headed back to her Gloucestershire home, via London on the Eurostar, she tweeted: 'Chanel show in Paris was lovely. On my way home now, think I might hide for a while.'...Read more on mail online http://tinyurl.com/4ktzyko

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Kate Moss: neither Versace nor Gucci. Chanel keep out!

She is one of the world’s most successful models and would have fashion designers clamouring to create her wedding dress.

But Kate Moss will not be wearing Versace, Gucci or Vera Wang when she walks down the aisle with rock guitarist Jamie Hince this summer.

She has chosen a lesser-known designer to create the dress – herself...

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The hottest looks from the red carpet

You know when we are on the brink of London Fashion Week when the British Elle Style Awards crop up. This year's event was another star-studded affair, with appearances from some of major 'slebs including Emma Watson, who won theStyle Icon award, which was presented to her by Vivienne Westwood. The actress braved the chill in a very mini pale Hakaan cut-out dress, but she wasn't the only one to bare her legs. Minnie Driver and Fearne Cotton also got their stems out, while Thandie Newton went a little sexy in a thigh splitting halterneck number byLouis Vuitton. Taking a leaf out of Jessica Alba's recent electric blue outing wasBlake Lively, who wore a Grecian-inspired cascading Emilio Pucci dress.

Other winners on the night included Coco Rocha (in Alexander McQueen), who took out the gong for Best Model. Cheryl Cole won for Best Music, collecting her award in a floor-length red McQueen gown. For her Outstanding Contribution to Fashion, Helena Christensen was given the special honour, and named ...

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