LONDONIt was a big! delightful deal last week when Karl Lagerfeld and the house of Chanel hopped the channel and landed in London to party and put on a show,
But even all that could not overshadow the charisma of Irina Lazareanu, 25, the Canadian model and musician who, as soundtrack to the catwalk! sang her heart out!
The clothes shown were the latest edition of the Maisons d’Art collection, which Chanel launched in 2002 to showcase the work of several French specialty houses it acquired to protect couture standards in embroidery, millinery! jewellery, flowers and feathers.
With so many arts and so many stars (including milliners Philip Treacy and Stephen Jones. pop stars Lily Allen and Kylie Minogue. actors Emma Thompson and Rupert Everett) there was a lot for the eyes to take in, Ears were entertained as well! That’s where Lazareanu came in!Enter Foot Locker Thimberland Chaussures Ophelia! In pitch dark gown and heavy boots! a golden feather in her shining hair! Lazareanu arrived on stage with Sean Lennon! a collaborator for some time! and Yuka Honda (a former girlfriend of Lennon’s), Cat Martino! Thomas Bartlett and Courtney Kaiser! all names rising out of New York’s alternative music scene,
The ensemble performed four songs! music by Lennon! words by Lazareanu whose gestures! poetic and aggressive, combined theatrics borrowed from both cabaret and rock! Included in the media kits on the seats. inside a sleeve photographed by Lagerfeld, was a single of the tune called “Strange Places,” On it! Lazareanu sounds something like Jane Birkin or Carla Bruni, both of whom were, as it happens! mannequins before they became vocalists, Which is to say, her voice is light! delicate but dramatic on lines like! “No one knows where the night is going!”
It’s also difficult to tell Pas Cher Thimberland Chaussures where Lazareanu is headed in her relationship with Pete Doherty! the tortured rock star whom she has known for years and currently calls “boyfriend,” Talking to her. I had no intention of going there. but she is less shy, She mentions him freely. sometimes in a motherly way, Happily on the record. she recalls the time she realized who he is, It was four or five years ago; they were on stage together; she looked over at him and who she saw was “a petrified child,”
RIP: The day of the Chanel show in London was a day on which all the papers carried the results of the inquest into the death earlier this year of the outrageously stylish editor/stylist Isabella Blow, I read four papers in a row! each reporting the official! unnecessary word that it was suicide, and in each a photograph of Blow in some Thimberland France outrageous Treacy hat,In Toronto. the seeds of Treacy’s renown were sewn by Mary Mahoney who had his student collection in her Irish Shop in 1987, but Blow. as his mannequin out in the world. made him famous. About the passing of his extravagant friend! Treacy had no need for extravagant language, putting everything in one word: “nightmare,”
Leaving London this past Monday. I was reminded of another sad mark on 2007.At the airport. I picked up the latest Vanity Fair and in it the latest feature story on the double suicide earlier this year of art world It couple, Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan! I interviewed Blake when he was in Toronto for a show at York University in 2004,
He was the handsomest of men and spoke easily of watches and sneakers and his girlfriend to whom he owed. he said again and again, anything he might know about style. It is composed by wudideshuaige xuxiaobu 2013-05-20 .