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Karl can put Chanel on Lily Allen, but can we really put Lily Allen in Chanel, if you know what I mean? What I mean is, could this makeover stick on the girl who refuses to not sunbathe topless what-seems daily in her classless crusade nearing as bad as Amy Winehouse?
That is why Lily Allen as a model for Chanel surprises me. Yes, Lily is a huge Chanel fan, uh--so are witless teenagers. The difference is this recording artist has money, and those teens aren't truly carrying Chanel with their pink cambon totes.
So what I mean is anyone can be a fan, but that doesn't mean The Man will "fan" back. The singer makes a cute model of some sort---Allen is quite beautiful and a great writer with a great mind, but ... girl needs work.
Or - usually. One couldn't tell from these amazing photographs.
Here Allen advertises and sports Chanel's upcoming handbag collection, "Coco Cocoon" due this October 10th (2009).
Stay tuned for a gallery devoted to the bags next week!
Photography by Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel's designer, himself.
Credit: Collective of the Interwebs & I-D Magazine
Mixing so many wonderful lovelies of the girl world. Softness, florals, pink, & a crafty look/feel with knits.
When I was writing about the sizing "scandal" I see over Lara Stone's sensationalized popularity - I couldn't help but calm down viewing this shot of Stone in Chanel. (In our W Magazine / Lara Stone gallery.)
There's also more on the softer side in another of Stone's differences. Forget a size six amongst a 00 world, Lara's natural blondness is showcasing other alternative beauty aspects. It's not that she has no eyebrows, but like a few other women, she has very pale hair, even there. Now these girls have their own model mirror, which is always beautiful.
We may laugh and poke at other famous people ditching their brows on purpose - but Lara is just natural - even in her near-skintone eyebrows. So girls who grew up anxious over this different feature of their own, there may be a separate calm for them amongst the buzz.
For capelet purchasing info, contact Chanel.
Photo Source: Cyana Trend Land
Lara Stone is busty (left, for Prada) but in the 2nd photo
more stick than full figured with jutting hip bones.
I'm about to depart a bit from my usual "Ella" demure professionalism today in this rant. (Warning: it bad language will show up further down the page.) Still somehow when I'm sick with upset, surprisingly, eloquence conquers more through lyrical prose. So you'll now receive oddly & seemingly-schemed poetic flow with the partial drawback of - well, a hissy fit? At least you can not see the temper tantrum I feel inside me wanting to break out. But it is not masterminded; it is a gift (in my opinion, as I like my style). Perhaps I am blessed in my strangeness, but I digress too much.
I'm weary, bleary, hungry and rife with personal strife currently. It'll be OK soon, don't worry - life happens. OK I'm still a lady, yes, I didn't cuss. But later on, I know the bitch me will surface - and Ella even refers to that as a chienne or female dog instead of the B word! (Oh my.) But it is a part of me. I won't deny it as a woman it is in me. Hear me roar. And that's not anti-feminist. (Men can be worse - or just plain bitches themselves. Maybe that's un-PC. Maybe it's human.)
On to the "story"... So model and it-girl hype ... I never follow it. You might know that. I don't care if you care not for it. But of course I do try to keep up with a lot of fashion article reading whenever I can. I'm not mad when bloggers follow business-as-usual whereas it's my nemesis - so the source of this news 
does not matter. Oh it does as a link source, of course, I happily oblige - I mean just that I mean no offense. Who does not chatter - amongst the trendy writers - of trends, news, current... That's fine, as "fine" is defined.
But back on topic, this happens to mean, yes-I've heard buzz of Lara Stone and her status in the modeling world. Whatever.
But her very popularity (or is it sheer f...abbing presence on top catwalks?) is marked as exceptional to the modeling biz. Why? Because she's a size 4. Yes, 4, or 6 on bloated days. But models are "supposed to be" a 0 or 2. So she's heralded as "curvier" or worse "fuller figured".
View our Gallery from W Magazine's August issue declaring Stone Fashion's IT Girl. Our Ttitle: Beauty or the Beast?
The real thing, true visual difference, between Lara and her runway colleagues (not all models, mostly just runway) is that her breasts are 2 1/2 sizes more grown than her nearly A peers. Her bust is reportedly a C cup.
Quel shock! Alert the press! She's got it gets juicy from here...
So... as you'll see more soon, we may not be that nice to this model - but models aren't more worthy of worship than celebrities, and who's nice to celebrities?
This model, Lara Stone, is fashion's IT Girl du Jour. That's fine. But her unique features we notice, the differences that make her intriguing in our eyes---quite blatantly her strange, awkward, gawky features---those are not what others notice.
Google News search; just 2009 - Google blog search...
She's getting attention for being different from other models, but it's for her extra dress size or two---not her awkward middle-schoolgirl face. We could celebrate diversity in facial aesthetics, but instead this actual busty catwalker is a spectacle for curves---even if she only has so many.
So why is this anomaly so famous now? It's probably to do with her following the routine-pout mixed with being a muse for artistic fashion photography (she comes through in print fantastically interesting like a compelling novel, even when not beautiful). But before we rant about a size 4 being the "new curvy" -- let's get familiar with the face. You likely know it if you're a fashionista, but do you know all the good, the bad, and the ugly?
Sources: Cyana Trend Land, W Editor's Blog, Models.com
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