Secret Samurai

What Karl does after a hard day of designing...

Goes home.

Puts on his PJ's.

Smites evil doers.


Just another day in the life of mister Lagerfeld.



Love you, mean it

Emily


P.S. Photos from WorldsBestEver, DesignYouTrust and UrbanSamurai

RIP Daul Kim

Late Thursday night model, Daul Kim's body was found hanged in her Parisian apartment. Kim, sometimes muse of Karl Lagerfeld, was only 20 years old. "Kim, who was known in fashion circles for being feisty and sensitive, wrote about the high and lows of her hectic life on the international modeling world" on her invite only blog iliketoforkmyself (telegraph UK).



Her last post was entitled "hi to forever." But did not cause alarm because "most of the posts are entitled 'hi to' something. Her last post early on Wednesday morning is accompanied by a You Tube clip of the house record 'I Go Deep' by British DJ artist Jim River" (telegraph.UK).

love you, mean it

Emily

Lagermouse

Karl Lagermouse.

Even a stuffed mouse can't make this man look happy.

Love you, mean it

Emily

photo borrowed from here.

Karl Lagerfeld Hates You

The angry fashionable man strikes again...

"Curvy women have no place on the catwalk, iconic German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was quoted as saying, after a fashion magazine said it was banning skinny models in favour of 'real women.' 'No one wants to see curvy women,' Lagerfeld was quoted as saying on the website of news magazine Focus on Sunday. 'You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly,' he added" (Shoeblogs).

He may design for Chanel but the man hates potato chips. Therefore he hates potatoes. Someone who hates potatoes must also hate me. Karl Lagerfeld hates me?!?



Hate you, mean it

Karl (hater of Emily)

reposted from Shoeblogs

Designer Logos in the Age of DIY

Recently the case brought against Naco Paris by the powerful Chanel corporation was overturned.  He was using the likeness of their logo to produce this and many other memorable fakes.



In an age of DIY can designer branding really prevent fakes?

Some crafty fakers to take note of are The Counterfeit Crochet Project folks.  It's an organization fighting the "contemporary capitalist factory production and distribution channels" (counterfeitcrochet.org) one counterfeit designer bag at a time.  Basically they find pictures of the new "it" bag and reproduce a pattern for the bag.  They crochet the bag and send the pattern out onto the gentle waves of the internet like a digital moses in a basket.  

Now these friends aren't just poking fun at designer goods, they are also admiring them.  "Fashion is fun fun fun! But at the same time, most of us ordinary people can't afford such things, and some even knowingly buy knock-off products to sublimate our desires.  If you take the logic one step further, and actually make the item yourself, you are in a sense taking the situation into your own hands without giving a single penny to the company brand.  They have excluded you anyway, by keeping their prices astronomically high" (counterfeitcrochet.org).

I caught them red-handed (so to speak) at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last year.  I participated in their project by crocheting a little circle & pinning it to their wall for a traveling exhibition.

Not only do Barton & I, Naco Paris and the Counterfeit Crochet Project fake it til they make it -  Celebrities do it too!

There was much hubbub when miss Lily Allen dawned a do-it-herself Chanel t-shirt.  And really, can celebrities really do any wrong?

For now, Naco Paris lives on to make another fake.  Even Karl says it's okay.

L.Y.L.A.S Karl.  L.Y.L.A.S.

Love you, mean it

Emily

photos taken from the counterfeit crochet project, pixplosion, a shaded view of fashion, and pursepage.

read a brilliant article about fakers here.

Why I Want To Take Up Smoking...

Here is a movie by Karl Lagerfeld about Chanel's Paris-Moscou "flirtation" in the 1910's & 20's.  It's sort of weird and disjointed but it looks rad and the music makes me want to be French in the 20's.   This movie also makes me want to smoke.  Real bad.  If only my designer clothing wouldn't smell like an ashtray afterwards.  Oh, and that cancer thing.   I would be ALL over it.

Read more about the always lovely Chanel here.

Love you, mean it

Emily