Brand: Chanel
Year: 1969
Model: Cheryl Tiegs
Photographer: Jérôme Ducrot
In 1969 on of the most famous American models of the time appeared in an ad for the world's most famous fragrance. Cheryl Tiegs was photographed by Jérôme Ducrot on a speeding boat next to a handsome gentleman. Below the black and white snap the tagline: "When your heart takes a spin...that's the spell of Chanel."
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www.chanel.com
Consumer research firm ForeSee has released the results of an online customer satisfaction survey that shows which e-commerce sites offered the best customer service this holiday season and which e-commerce sites left shoppers frustrated. Sites like Amazon.com and Avon.com secured the top spots while sites like Overstock.com and at Gap.com made appearances at the bottom of the holiday study.
According to the annual e-commerce evaluation, Amazon's customer satisfaction score climbed two points to 88 on its 100-point scale, the best reading ever for the popular online retailer. This is the 14th consecutive year that Amazon.com has topped the satisfaction list. Other strong performers were Avon.com, JC Penny.com, QVC.com and Apple.com.
This holiday season shoppers were most unsatisfied with websites including: Overstock.com, Gap.com, Sony.com, Buy.com, ToysRUs.com and Sears.com.
Netflix actually had the biggest decline plunging down the list from 86 to 79 satisfaction points.
This week two different Victoria's Secret Angels announced that they are expecting! Alessandra Ambrosio confirmed that she is four months into her pregnancy and Lily Aldridge confirmed that she is three months pregnant. That means that both models were pregnant when they walked the runway at the Victoria's Secret fashion show last month.
Alessandra, whose been hitting the Victoria's Secret runway since 2000, is pregnant with her second child. The Brazilian model already has a 3-year-old daughter named Anja Louise with her fiance Jamie Mazur.
Lily Aldridge, whose been hitting the Victoria's Secret runway since 2010, married Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill back in May. They are expecting their first child together.
www.victoriassecret.com
(Photos courtesy of Getty Images/Entertainment)
PETA has given Janet Jackson their "Grinch of the Year" title for continuing to wear fur despite their pleas for her to stop.
Janet Jackson regularly wears furs on the red carpet and has been the celebrity spokesperson for fur fashion company Blackglama for the last two years.
In a statement, PETA said:
"When Janet Jackson had her infamous 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl, at least the flesh that popped into view was her own," writes PETA's Jeff Mackey. "Unlike the stolen animal skins that she drapes herself with, which are as dead as her taste in fashion (not to mention her career). Ms. Jackson, you're just plain nasty."
Neither Janet Jackson nor Blackglama has commented on PETA's harsh words.
www.peta.org
GQ has named Jared Leto this year's worst-dressed man. The popular men's fashion magazine declared that "the dubious honor goes to the 30 Seconds to Mars ringleader, actor, and high fashion-fool, who looked extravagantly terrible all year long."
Here's what else GQ had to say about Jordan Catalano Jared Leto:
"He's flaunted nipples through mesh shirts. He's worn skirts about as frequently as pants. He's rocked a mullet. He is the Worst-Dressed Man in the World. Look, it's not that Jared Leto, the actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman, doesn't try. He tries too damn hard. Don't get us twisted, Jared, we like you, we think you're good at one of your day jobs. But consider this philosophy from legendary dandy Beau Brummell: "A gentleman should never be noticed for the singularity of his dress." What we think he means is, try not to look like a dick."
Strangely, Jared (who turned 40-years-old this week) snagged a style award from the German edition of GQ two months ago.
www.gq.com
(Photos courtesy of Getty Images/Entertainment)
Can you believe that 2011 is coming to a close? While you wonder where in the world the time went... here's a look back at 10 of the biggest fashion headlines and stories on Fashionist.ca throughout 2011.
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10. Versace for H&M madness
[Above: Who expected the global hysteria surrounding the debut collection of Versace for H&M? Ummm... everyone.]
Forget the Missoni for Target collaboration that famously crashed target.com... the craziest fashion collaboration of 2011 had to be the Versace for H&M extravaganza that hit stores on Saturday November 18th. After months of serious hype, Donatella's vintage Versace-inspired collection hit select H&M stores across the globe. Celebs wearing the most sought after pieces, overnight lineups, in-store madness and eBay markups followed. Viva Versace!
100 Unforgettable Dresses by Hal Rubenstein (fashion director of InStyle, as well as, one of its founding editors) is an incredible new book that takes the reader on a visual tour of some of the most memorable dresses in recent history. The 100 dresses that are featured in the book are part of fashion history and are beautifully presented along with Hal's insight into what inspired the design of each piece.
Here's a preview of 10 of the dresses that you can find within the pages of 100 Unforgettable Dresses.
Safety-Pin Gown
Gianni Versace · 1994
"... The truth is not a single screen performance is responsible for branding Elizabeth Hurley into our collective memory. And yet, she is emblazoned there, thanks to her having stepped out one night in the sartorial equivalent of the shot heard 'round the world. All it took was one dress ―"That Dress"― as it was tagged by the media the morning after Hurley's appearance at the world premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in London. Upending her usual tabloid-captioned capacity as Hugh Grant's girlfriend, Hurley stepped out of a limo and into the paparazzi's viewfinders. ..."
"The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!" – Pierre Cardin
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Brand: Louis Vuitton
Year: 2002
Model: Tasha Tilberg
Photographers: Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
In 2002 fashion photo duo, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott teamed up with Louis Vuitton to create the brand's fairy tale-inspired spring/summer 2002 ad campaign. Tasha Tilberg starred as Snow White and in one ad she trekked through the forrest with seven dwarves. In the fashionable ad above... Tasha's Snow White fell into a deep sleep beside a red Epi leather Louis Vuitton bag after biting a poisoned apple.
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www.louisvuitton.com
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