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But it was the way in which it was handled, I couldn't believe the level of aggression, but I had to accept that there was a lot of anger out there. People felt quite persecuted by limitations that they felt the industry imposed upon them. It was a big eye-opener for me. How I reacted to hearing criticism of my body, I thought: ‘well hang on a minute, I'm a grown up here, what must a young person feel like chanel handbags ?'”And so she co-founded the All Walks project, which aims to encourage diversity on the catwalk, and acknowledges that the fashion industry's portrayal of beauty has a very real impact on how millions of women around the world feel about their appearance.“Fashion is intoxicating and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives,” she says. “A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm. But I think we undermine the consumer by insisting on having such a strict remit in terms of body ideal as well as appreciation of beauty. I see All Walks as being a really positive thing, allowing both designer and model to feel less pressure, and perhaps showcasing the designers' credentials by demonstrating their ability.”As part of the project, All Walks is putting on an exhibition of images – shot by Scottish fashion photographer Rankin chanel bags – of models of varying sizes and ages at the National Portrait Gallery during London Fashion Week. It's yet another date for O'Connor's busy LFW diary, but that hasn't prevented her from taking on yet another project.She has teamed up with her friend, the stylist Kate Halfpenny, to create the clothing line “She Died of Beauty”. The duo have just launched their first pieces – a collection of five T-shirts – and are planning on branching into more high-end wares. For now, they insist upon crawling before they can walk, keeping the collection simple and shooting the campaign in a photo booth, with O'Connor doing her own hair and make-up. The project was inspired by her work with the Self-Employed Women's Association and Traid (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development), and makes the argument that ethics and style needn't be mutually exclusive.“I had this staggering realisation that I'd been working in this industry for over a decade without ever having truly considered how those garments are made,” she says chanel bags saks .

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The label introduced consumers to its brand heritage via the Inside Chanel microsite that retraces the people and events that led up to the creation of the label.The site was launched with the legend of iconic perfume Chanel Price No. 5 for the first chapter. The videos capture the essence of the fragrance from its genesis to its muses who have embodied the perfume since it was first created (see story).In Chapter Two, Chanel Purse Forum invited consumers to learn the intimate history of its N°5 fragrance through a video featuring Marilyn Monroe.The “Marilyn and N°5 – Inside Chanel” video released Nov. 16 was be shown on the label’s Web site and YouTube channel. Chanel continued to push the campaign through its digital properties (see story).There will be at least 10 different themes in total, so there is still more to come in this series.The series helps Chanel Price add value to its brand by highlighting its successes throughout history.“Chanel has been creating this video series as an outlet to convey its successes through the visual timeline,” Ms. Strum said.“This strategy makes the brand more aspirational and desirable for consumers,” she said. For almost 30 years, Karl Lagerfeld has helmed French fashion empire Chanel Gst, taking the brand’s trademark utilitarian tweed suits and spinning them into outlandish and glamorous fripperies. The Kaiser’s personal style, however, is mechanical in its vampiric piousness. Clad exclusively in black and white, with a high-collared dress shirt, dark sunglasses, fingerless gloves, a white ponytail, and a glittering bauble of some kind, the designer has cultivated an extreme signature look.1. Shirt by Prada, $4902. 3 station black sun necklace by Eddie Borgo, $3153. 10 strand necklace by Giles & Brother, $420 4. Sunglasses by chanel gst bag, $3805. Tie by Tom Ford, $2456. Cufflinks by Asprey, $3,2007. Conduite gloves by Hermès, $630 8. Belt by Louis Vuitton, $655|||Images from Chanel’s “The Little Black Jacket” global exhibition are showing in seven cities. Photographers, designers, friends, and muses fêted Karl Lagerfeld at Balthazar following the New York City debut. Click here to see the photos.|||As Sanya Richards-Ross made her approach to the starting line of the Women’s 400m final at the London Olympics yesterday, fashionistas worldwide got a special thrill.The stylish athlete sported gold Chanel logo earring studs and ran off with a gold medal!Loved her spunk and confidence – not too mention her super chic french braid!Athletes are normally confined to wearing a uniform or sport gear, but I love it when they find a way to express their individuality chanel price list .

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Fall 2009 is at once chanel woc classic and contemporary, opulent and frugal, ladylike and bohemian. It is a season of simple basics and voluptuous accessories, of cosy knits and structured tailoring, of workaday neutrals and rich, bold colours. It is a season when the “uniform” is back in style, yet individuality has never been more important.It all starts with a return to investment dressing, as recession-weary women look for beautiful, well-made pieces with real staying power — even if they're going to buy fewer of them.“Today you want to make simple decisions about where to spend your money,” says Barbara Atkin, vice-president of fashion for Holt Renfrew. “Less can really make more of an impact.”Fall is all about strong silhouettes, bold colours, luscious layers and dramatic accents that let a woman express who she really is chanel woc .“It's not just one big trend, but a lot of different things,” Claudia Augusti, fashion designer for Plum stores, says happily. “I can't wait to start shopping.”INVESTMENT DRESSINGThanks to a decade where fashion decreed that women should spend $300 on a pair of jeans but only $20 on a trend-of-the-moment jacket, many of us have closets bulging with clothes — and absolutely nothing to wear.“I do know through history when it gets a little bit difficult economically, people go back to investment dressing. [The attitude is] if I've got to spend, let me spend it right,” says Lisa Miller, national brand buyer for Laura stores. “We're a little more serious about our environment chanel woc .
We're a little more serious about the economy. Disposable is almost wrong today.”“Yes, we are coming out of the recession chanel woc , but I don't think people's mindset has changed,” agrees Cristelle Basmaji, spokesperson for Jacob stores. “People are looking for investment pieces, pieces that will last more than this season.”Investment dressing starts with what Basmaji calls the “timeless basic pieces,” versatile garments that never really go out of style, such as blazers, suits, pencil skirts, cardigans, simple suits and sheath dresses.“You can't go wrong with those kind of pieces because they will be around for seasons and seasons,” she says.More than that, it's about fit and quality, and that usually means spending more — sometimes a lot more — on an investment piece. Of course, buying more expensive clothes typically means buying fewer of them. And that might actually be a good thing.“Women really need to be editing,” Atkin says. “The fact is today that chanel bags saks women really want to collect pieces that are not about trend, but are really good, iconic and beautiful classics that really look new.”That's the other thing about investment dressing: Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't have to be dowdy or boring.That means your investment piece can just as easily be a classic black suit or a signature item like Etro's psychedelic frock coat, a richly sequined top, a luscious Hermes scarf or a gorgeous piece of art jewelry.“These are pieces that are really going to update the wardrobes we already have,” Atkin says. “It can make something that was tired in the past look fresh and new.”THE STRONG SILHOUETTEWhat's also fresh and new is the season's silhouette, which is at once curvy and lean, voluminous on top, skinny on bottom, with a narrow, nipped-in waist.“This is really the season to put your money behind a great shoulder pad or some detail on the shoulder chanel bags saks ,” says Atkin. “Once you have that volume on top, it makes you look important. That polished, elegant look makes you look successful. And it makes you feel optimistic.”This is a great season for tailored blazers, beautiful blouses and luxurious knits in every style from shrugs to ponchos, tunics, Chanel-style jackets, chunky dolman-sleeved pullovers and long, oversized, belted cardigan coats.“Cardigans are really big in the market,” says Nathalie Neveu, manager of product development and design for Penningtons and MXM, which cater to the plus-size market.She notes that cardigans are easy to wear and versatile, too, especially in the new style she's calling a “chanel bags saks”.

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A report from London Chanel Bags 2012 ? – Inès de la Fressange is running late, but its hard to hold it against her. Firstly, because I'm waiting in the twinkly warmth of an afternoon tea party at Roger Vivier's Sloane Street boutique; and secondly, because the reason she's been waylaid is so very understandable. She's been in Topshop. After stepping off the Eurostar, the former Chanel muse and model – and now the brand ambassador for luxury shoe label Roger Vivier– just couldn't resist a little detour to one of our national treasures.“I bought a sequinned jacket a bit like this one,” she says, in her warm, deep voice, while gesturing with slim, elegant fingers at the sparkly black blazer she's wearing. It's part of an outfit that looks more quintessentially Parisian than an onion-seller eating a croissant under the Eiffel Tower. Chanel Bags 2012 Her long, slim legs (she once likened her figure to a “giant asparagus”) are encased in straight dark jeans, and teamed with a Breton top and midnight-blue velvet Vivier flats.At 52, she is strikingly beautiful with olive skin that's smooth, but not suspiciously so, and sparkly, dark chocolate-coloured eyes enhanced with smoky make-up. However, it's her manner that's most engaging: a combination of rapid banter, the odd sultrily-slurred phrase, animated gestures and conspiratorially raised eyebrows.
Whenever Fressange, who lives on Paris's Left Bank, comes to London she is “Chanel Bags 2012” to come to Topshop by her children, 15-year-old Nine, and 10-year-old Violette, but she also believes that, “it's really important to see what the street fashion is. In the luxury business if you see that something is sold very cheaply there is no point in trying to do the same kind of thing.”This kind of research and observation is part of Fressange's role at Roger Vivier. She explains that when Diego Della Valle, the chairman and CEO of the luxury leather group Tod's, hired her in 2002, after buying the Roger Vivier label, it was to take care of “the communication, the strategy, the decoration and all that”. It was part of a plan which has successfully taken a label that had fallen from favour into a desirable modern brand, Chanel Bags 2012 with six international shops, an opulent couture collection of shoes and bags, and famous customers such as Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett. One of Fressange's first projects was to choose the location for the Paris boutique and its interior design, and after taking advice from of one of the late Vivier's friends, she duly crammed it with an eclectic mix of art and antiques. “We wanted an elegant shop for elegant customers,” Fressange explains, “to go back to what is real luxury.”The label's credentials certainly made it ripe for a revival. Vivier was credited with inventing the stiletto in 1954, and provided glamorous footwear for the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Brigitte Bardot, Liz Taylor and Fran?oise Hardy. He created heels with a fleur-de-lis motif for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation (the flats Fressange is wearing today are a homage to them) Chanel Bags 2012 and Catherine Deneuve wore the designer's buckled pumps in the film Belle de Jour. They were designed in 1965 for Yves St Laurent's Mondrian collection, and the square, chrome buckle has been reinterpreted as the label's signature motif by designer Bruno Frisoni.Just as Roger Vivier has a distinguished history, Fressange's own stellar status made her a smart choice to lend the brand some modern sophistication, coupled with the fact that she knew the late designer. Her background is absurdly glamorous. She is the daughter of an Argentinian heiress and a stockbroker with his own plane, while her couture-clad grandmother drove a gold Rolls-Royce.

After becoming a model, Chanel Bags 2012 her big break was meeting Karl Lagerfeld at the New York shows in the early Eighties, when he offered her an exclusive contract to be the face of Chanel. With her coquettish but confident air, Fressange became Lagerfeld's muse and he said he wouldn't design a collection without her. The fairytale came to an abrupt end seven years later, however, when the pair fell out, although they are now back on cordial terms. The row was supposedly because Fressange was asked to be the face of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic – after which Lagerfeld labelled her provincial, castigated her in an interview, and Fressange's contract was ended. More recently she has said that Lagerfeld was probably put out because she had fallen in love with the man who later became her husband, art historian Luigi d'Urso, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2006.After her Chanel days, Fressange designed her own label for almost a decade, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 2008. In October, she received another accolade, this time voted for by the readers of Le Figaro, who crowned her the most chic woman in France in their annual poll Chanel Bags 2012 .

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Shopping Spots ParisParis Chanel Wallets is one of the world's best shopping destinations. Though you can always rely on the city's numerous glitzy storefronts and luxury shops, we highlight five of the hottest retail spots that you won't find in your run-of-the mill travel guide.Version Vendome and Kreon, 1 bis, place de ValoisThis modern lifestyle-design outpost sits in the middle of the French Ministry of Culture's compound on place de Valois. Opened just a month ago, the spatial collaboration between Version Vendome and Kreon is already busy catering to Paris' plugged-in architects and designers. On the showroom floor, Version Vendome offers contemporary furnishings Chanel Wallets , including wooden tables with sinuous lines, cubic chairs embedded with nails and baroque-inspired, red resin chandeliers. Kreon‘s products, however, are less obvious. The Belgian company's architectural lights hover from the ceiling, enhancing the ambience of the space instead of competing for attention. If you're a serious shopper, Kreon's subtle illumination may already be familiar—Stella McCartney, Chanel and Colette stores are all outfitted with them. According to our insider sources in Paris, Hedi Slimane and Karl Lagerfeld are also fans of Kreon.7L, 7 rue de LilleSpeaking of Mr. Lagerfeld, if you're interested in what stimulates his mind, head to 7L, not Chanel Wallets. Lagerfeld, a self-proclaimed bibliophile, owns this Saint Germain bookstore, which houses a discerning collection of books and magazines. Art and photography tomes from established fashion photographers such as Peter Lindbergh as well as edgier artists like Gregory Crewdson surround the mirrored walls. On the waist-high tables lay diverse architecture, travel and furniture books, and the magazine racks offer art pubs like Fotografie and Frieze. There's also a fine selection of novels, if you're more fiction-minded. Considering that Lagerfeld has a glamorous hand in all of it, the store's atmosphere is refreshingly unpretentious.Mona, 17 rue BonaparteA few blocks away is unassuming womenswear shop Mona.
Although it opened four years ago Chanel Wallets , the store doesn't have a website—a prerequisite of modern retail practice—and isn't well publicized. But this modesty makes it the perfect antidote to the glitzy Dior and Louis Vuitton stores up the block. Reminiscent of Kirna Zabête in New York, the store has a potent mix of merchandise that will please even the pickiest of shoppers. There are girly frocks from Stella McCartney, sleek Lanvin silk shifts, pleated chiffon dresses by Derek Lam, knit swimwear from Missoni and Charles Anastase's coats. On the accessories front, the store stocks coated canvas totes from Lanvin (a must-have for spring) and Bottega Veneta‘s Intrecciato clutches. And ladies with a shoe fetish, hold your breath: Mona has one of the best selections of Pierre Hardy in town.Jerome Dreyfuss, 1 rue JacobJerome Dreyfuss has taken several turns on the fashion merry-go-round, finally settling into the cozy niche of luxury handbag design in Chanel Purse Forum 2002. His soft, supple leather bags come in a selection of colors and exotic skins that make Parisian girls go gaga. But eco-conscious fashionistas will be delighted to know that Dreyfuss has also launched Agricouture, a label that respects the leather-making process, paying extra attention to every step, from the breeding of the animals to the dyeing procedures. With an opening slated for Monday March 10, his new, freestanding boutique will be located at 1 rue Jacob—if the address sounds familiar, that's because it's right next door to the shop of Isabel Marant, his fashion designer wife.Shimji, 7 rue du PercheWe wrote about this unisex boutique when it opened over two years ago, and it continues to be a favorite stop in the upper Marais area during our jaunts to Paris. Chanel Purse Forum And now that the neighborhood is filling up with contemporary, Sentier-type stores, Shimji's well-edited selection of edgy Japanese and European designers—including including Kiminori Morishita, Share Spirit, Petar Petrov, Numero 10 and Piero Guidi—is a welcome alternative. Rival L'Eclaireur may be rapidly expanding, but Shimji still holds its own as one of Paris' prized destinations.

The videos capture the essence of the fragrance from its genesis to its muses who have embodied the perfume since it was first created (see story).In Chapter Two, Chanel Purse Forum invited consumers to learn the intimate history of its N°5 fragrance through a video featuring Marilyn Monroe.The “Marilyn and N°5 – Inside Chanel” video released Nov. 16 was be shown on the label’s Web site and YouTube channel. Chanel continued to push the campaign through its digital properties (see story).There will be at least 10 different themes in total, so there is still more to come in this series.The series helps Chanel add value to its brand by highlighting its successes throughout history.“Chanel has been creating this video series as an outlet to convey its successes through the visual timeline,” Ms. Strum said.“This strategy makes the brand more aspirational and desirable for consumers,” she said.

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‘Coco' chanel gst price 2012 dazzled the fashion world and changed how women dress. If you love Chanel, observe the 125th anniversary of her birthday on Aug. 19.What seems like a million years ago, I wandered the streets of Paris. Truthfully, it was 1993, and I was in the City of Lights for the first time on high school spring break.Parts of the trip I don't recall well, but I distinctly remember my first trip to Chanel's flagship boutique. I had first seen the store in the documentary “Madonna: Truth or Dare” and wanted to pay homage to this brand I knew so little about back then.The store's namesake, Gabrielle “Coco” chanel gst price 2012, lived a remarkable rags-to-riches tale filled with plenty of fodder to make TMZ editors squeal with delight.She was outspoken and controversial. During World War II, she shuttered her fashion business and shacked up with a Nazi officer; she also was a homophobe (although she had a couple of bisexual trysts); and she was anti-Semitic.The French designer's strong sense of style and elegance ultimately outweighed the drama, and her designs revolutionized women's wear.On Aug. 19, fashionistas can pay tribute to the outspoken designer and celebrate the 125th anniversary of Chanel's birth. Like another figure of her time, Eva Perón, little was ever expected of chanel gst price 2012, who once lived in an orphanage after her mother died and her father abandoned the family. She was a seamstress during her teenage years and later had a stint as a cabaret singer.Fashion came into play when she opened a hat business, thanks to her beau's backing chanel gst price 2012 .
She moved on to his friend, Arthur (“Boy”) Capel, who is believed to have been the love of chanel gst price 2012 life and who supported her expansion from hats to clothes and from Paris to coastal resorts.Decades after her death, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, and in 1957 at a Dallas fashion event, she was hailed as the most influential designer in the previous 50 years, and rightfully so.Chanel was a maverick for her time, mixing masculinity and femininity and finding new interpretations in everyday fabrics such as jersey and wool. Today, her admirers seek out the brand's hidden luxury, and chanel gst price 2012 subtleties can be seen playing out in works from fashion's major stars including Miuccia Prada and Austin-born designer Tom Ford.

chanel gst price 2012 women of the moment range from “Sex and the City's” Carrie Bradshaw to Madonna, who wore Chanel on the cover of Elle earlier this year and to her induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.I caught up with a couple of Chanel lovers, including Austin multimillionaire Robin Campbell, who scours vintage shops and auctions in New York and Europe to find vintage Chanel pieces.“She was an outspoken person and definitely had controversy that followed her throughout her life, and despite all of that, succeeded,” says Campbell, who owns the charity and shopping Web site Cupidz Clozet. “It's great that her legacy has continued on.”Those legacy pieces included the art deco-clad Chanel No. 5, which was launched in the early 1920s and is considered the first fragrance to bear a designer's name. Other chanel gst price 2012 staples are the little black dress in black chiffon, the classic tweed suit whose hem was weighed down by a gold chain, strands of pearls, costume jewelry, sling-back pumps in ivory with black toes and quilted handbags with shoulder straps made of gold chain.Why she returned to fashion in 1954 – her name was still muddied – isn't exactly clear. Some publications and Chanel followers believe the designer, then in her 70s, was bored. Another camp says she didn't like the direction fashion was going. I'm a sucker for a comeback story, even though in the book “chanel gst price 2012 A Woman of Her Own” (1991), Chanel dismisses her story as a comeback tale.Her postwar collection included relaxed suits trimmed in braid; her signature monochromatic colors as well as strings of fake pearls and brooches; and the return of her little black dress.In the United States, her name found fresh acclaim, and her signature jersey suit became popular. The following year, one of her more well-received accessories — itself still a staple of the collection — was introduced: the quilted bag with shoulder strap, simply known by chanel gst price 2012 lovers as the “2.55″ bag, named after the month and year of its creation. (The original bag doesn't feature the iconic double-C Chanel logo of other handbags.)Chanel died in her private suite at the H?tel Ritz Paris in 1971. Thankfully, her legacy and style have lived on for decades through the grand interpretations of Karl Lagerfeld, who was hired in 1983 to design Chanel and has since turned it into a mega-luxury brand. As chanel gst price 2012 once said: “Fashion fades; only style remains the same.”

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you always have to see the chanel handbags usa defining monument that is famous to that location. In the case of the city of Paris, it's always the Eiffel Tower. In the case of French Parisian beauty, it is Chanel No.5.And I was lucky enough to be gifted a bottle for Christmas last year.From the beginning Chanel No. 5 has always been exclusive. It was first released in 1921 as a Christmas gift to Mlle.'s best customers and was limited to only 100 flacons. When these customers started coming back, asking for more, it was officially launched as “Chanel No 5″ in 1922. Word is that this scent was the No. 5 bottle out of 10 samples presented to her, and that when asked how she would name it, she replied, “I always launch my collection on the 5th day of the 5th month, so the number 5 seems to bring me luck – therefore, I will name it No .Coco chanel handbags usa was never a big perfume fan. In fact, it's said that she thought that “women perfume themselves only to hide bad smells”. Things seemed to change after Coco's lover, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, took her to Cannes and introduced her to perfumer Ernest Beaux and toured his lab. It was here that he presented Coco with his 10 samples, numbered 1-5 and 20-24. He became forever known as the man who created chanel handbags usa.Coco was also known to have said, “I want to give women an artificial perfume. Yes, I really do mean artificial, like a dress, something that has been made.
I don't want any rose or lily of the valley, I want a perfume that is a composition.” To that end, chanel handbags usa became famous for its overdose in synthetic perfumery raw materials, the aldehydes ( don't worry – I read that, too, and still didn't understand it either.) in the top note. When the scent was released for public sale, it came in three strengths: Extrait Perfume, Eau de Toilette and Eau de Cologne. (*The Eau de Cologne was discontinued in the 1990′s and replaced with the Eau de Parfum.) Only the Extrait Perfume contains rose oil and jasmin absolute from the Grasse region, and is sealed by hand. So concerned to keep the scent as true as the original, Chanel has signed exclusivity agreements with the largest flower producer in Grasse, the Mul family, to provide them with the finest jasmine & roses.Now, you might think that having “the world's most legendary fragrance” (*in a bottle that was created in 1924 by Jean Helleau, that is itself iconic, and has been on permanent display at the MoMA in NYC since 1959 AND made into a poster by Andy Warhol) would make you richer than sin, right? Not so fast. Turns out that in 1924 Coco chanel handbags usa signed over the rights to No 5 to Pierre Wertheimer and Theophilus Bader, owners of Galeries Lafayette, with the shares divided that Pierre received 70%, Theophilus got 20% and Coco got the last 10% ( they created Parfums Chanel to distribute, hiring Ernest Beaux to be their chief perfumer). Now, that sounds bad, but remember, this was before she became famous for her LBD in 1925 and she needed their connections, money and distribution capabilities. Of course, this ate at her and she felt taken advantage of, so she decided to go back to Ernest and created “Mademoiselle Chanel No 1″, to be sold exclusively in her shops. Well, the French government considered that “Counterfeiting” and prohibited it. However, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and Neiman Marcus in Texas, in the US, kept on selling it. After the customers were all puzzled, Pierre ended up raising Coco's share. They eventually made nice, to the point that when Coco chanel handbags usa wanted to restart her couture house in 1947, Pierre financially backed her. However, all niceities aside, for the rest of her life she still felt like she had been shafted out of a huge sum of money.As for the smell, I'm not even going to try to describe it myself, because I have told you guys I am not one to know “notes” or anything like that to be descriptive. I will say that there are legions of fans, including Marilyn Monroe who, when asked what she wore to bed, famously said, “Five drops of No 5.” And, I will quote others who have tried to describe it:According to Luca Turin, author of The Secret of Scent and, with Tania Sanchez, the recently published Perfumes – The Guide: “Those who have been brought up on stunted, suburban fragrances must find it hard to accept the existence of such a regally beautiful thing,” he writes.
“The top chanel handbags usa surprise every time: a radiant chorus of ylang and rose floating like gold leaf on the chalk-white background of aldehydes. Curiously, this most modern of perfumes evokes an image of great antiquity, perhaps a Scythian jewel on a white dress.“The drydown fades the way white flowers do, slowly becoming soft and flesh-coloured. And to get an idea of No 5′s quality, smell it on a paper strip after 24 hours. Now try this with whatever else you're wearing. See?”New York Times perfume critic, Chandler Burr: “chanel handbags usa hits you like a bank of white-hot searchlights washing the powdered stars at a movie premiere in Cannes on a dry summer night. If you haven't smelled it in a while, do so again. It's great to bathe in that light.”Get it now? It clearly rises above simple description. If you haven't had a chance to smell this, please take the time to stop by the Chanel counter and take a whiff then come back here and give me YOUR description of this iconic scent. If you have this, what do you think? Do you think the descriptions are accurate? Let me know!