Giabiconi turns pop star

I know I said this week updates were going to be back to normal but I didn't anticipate the second wave of attacks from my cold. I'm still battling it out and I'm not in full-blogging mode yet but I woke up this morning and found this and there was no way in hell I was not going to post it on soVIPzone an leave a couple of comments with you.
Yes, you're eyes are not playing tricks on you, Baptiste Giabiconi (aka: Kaiser Karl's favourite toy) is now a pop star. I encourage you to watch the whole four minutes of video in HD and full screen. I covered my face for the most part of it but maybe you can get through it? First of all, who thinks that a man can wear so much jewellery? (unless it's Lagerfeld himself, of course). Secondly, why would they make it say that unnecessary line in English when he obviously has the thickest French accent? Which leads me to my fourth question, why the Americana/motel/desert theme? They should've shot it in St. Tropez or Cannes, maybe Karl could've directed it? How much of what he wears is Chanel? And, is the motorbike the one we saw the last Cruise 2011 show? And finally, anyone out there who thinks this could be a success?

I'm off.

the return of the yeti

It is funny how it never occurred to Kaiser Karl that this moment would come, even for him. The probability theory proves that, even with the best skills, winning every time is just not possible. If Lagerfeld thought we would simply shiver in awe at his signature on the Chanel label, he thought wrong. Chanel's FW10 was a very unrealistic show —an über-amusing one— that scarcely provided the surmised dose of tweed and proved that even the biggest and most established can have delirious of grandeur. While other designers gave preference to practicality before lavishness, even jeopardising a considerable part of his "classics", the Chanel tweed pieces displayed to please the eye but not the wearer.

Shoes and boots walked the runway in the shape of drenched heeled yeti footwear and matronly boots that were an unsuccessful intent to reinvent the black and white Chanel boot.

Menswear, which at Chanel has always been merely indulgent, this time seemed more like an opportunity to display Baptiste Giabiconi and Brad Koenig. Karl has said of Giabiconi, his muse, that he looks just as good with clothes as he does undressed. If we judge by the way he dressed at Chanel, well, make your own conclusions.

The only part that I did love about the whole collection were, apart from the jewellery, these tweed covers for hot water bottles. I predict an it-bag hit for Sundance and future icy fashion weeks the likes of this past one.

[Pictures: Style.com]

I'm off.