Tweed Helmet: Karl Lagerfeld for Atelier Ruby

Do you like listening to music everywhere? Even on a motorcycle? Well, this chic gadget is what you need.

Karl Lagerfeld has launched a pretty helmet in collaboration with Atelier Ruby.

Tweed Helmet is the name of this interesting bikers accessory with a pocket for your Ipod.

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A New Way to Ride in Style

Want to make helmet hair sexy? Karl Lagerfeld provided us with the newest in luxury bike wear.

A mink coated helmet, complete with iPod capability can transform the embarrassing safety necessity into a sexy status symbol.

The revolutionary idea was brought together by the three way collaboration of designer, Karl Lagerfeld, French Luxury helmet maker, Les Ateliers Ruby, and Apple.
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First Trailer for “Coco, Before Chanel”

To me, Audrey Tautou will always be Amélie. To others, soon, she will be Coco.

“Coco Before Chanel,” biopic of celebrated fashion designer Coco Chanel is based on book “L’Irreguliere” (The Nonconformist) by Edmonde Charles-Roux, directed and written by Anne Fontaine and Camille Fontaine.

Audrey Tautou stars as Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco, before she became famous. Watch the trailer (in French) after the jump…

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Chanel Perspex Briefcase

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld showcased his black take on power suiting for Chanel last week in Paris and one of the highlights was the Chanel Perspex Briefcase designed for working women.

The transparent briefcase comes with slots to hold a purse, lipstick, sunglasses, iPod and other ladies’ stuff. Source: Businessflogo

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Chanel Spring Summer 2009 Heidi Mount by Karl Lagerfeld

As soon as Karl Lagerfeld saw the house in Vermont he knew he had found the setting for the next Chanel ad campaign.

It is a typical New England wooden house, set on the banks of Lake Champlain, with a severe and puritan look that makes it seem like the house has been frozen in the mid 19th century.

As the designer put it: “I love this house, it is so Emily Dickinson,” referring to the tormented romanticism of the American poet from Massachusetts whose work went unrecognized during her lifetime.

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Karl Lagerfeld at Dior Homme

Karl Lagerfeld has been fraternising with the enemy and proves that he is just as good as a photographer as he is a designer with this new Dior Homme by Kris Van Assche Spring Summer 2009 ad campaign that he lensed.

The campaign features Brazilian model Marlon Teixeira.

Lagerfeld is an outspoken fan of the label – he credits losing 42kg in weight to his desire to wear it. “I suddenly wanted to dress differently, to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane,” he said at the time in 2007.

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