Chanel

October 22, 2008

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Before I get into today's ramble, let me make sure you saw yesterday's visit with the Atlanta Housewives:

Now that that's out of the way, check out "Top Design" tonight. There's a super-high end challenge, lots of drama, Simon Doonan is the guest judge, and Eddie is provocative.

Last night I was lucky enough to attend the opening of Chanel's touring public art show at the Rumsey playfield in Central Park. I know I am going to do a crap job of explaining what this actually means, and I am about to board a plane very early in this day with nobody to set me straight on this, but here I go... This exhibit consists of a traveling futuristic "pod" that you enter and tour artists' installations that were inspired by Chanel's most classic 2.5 model purse.

I couldn't begin to put into words the complexity and oblique beauty of the installation, but it is essentially a series of visual treats that you don't understand what your looking at until your eye settles for a few moments. It is up in Central Park until January and I say GO. (I will be going back when there aren't beautiful French people everywhere.)

Before heading to the event, I was feeling particularly square and corporate looking, so I conspired with my friend's glam squad to give me some seriously smoky eyes to get into the Karl Lagerfeld vibe. We later got to meet Mr. Lagerfeld and I felt better for being smoked out. Having recently seen the amazing documentary on his life, I was flabbergasted by him.

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