December 10, 2009

Chanel wants to Tattoo You! Les Trompe-L'Oeil de Chanel

Chanel's 2010 Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear Show featured beautifully soft makeup from the Spring collection and also something surprising - tattoos!  Peter Phillips, Global Creative Director of Chanel Make-up describes his inspiration for them:

"For the show I wanted to play with the Chanel symbols, the pearls, the chains, wheat, as well as blossoms and small swallows who usually announce the arrival of spring.
I placed the tattoos on different parts of the body, in an elegant yet sensual manner, « chic and sexy »: On the décolleté, the wrists and thighs like a garter.

All this in a cheerful and festive manner.


The chains dressed the slender and delicate wrists. The pearls, intertwined with flowers and wheat, fell like cascades down the length of the legs, or became a necklace on which the swallows rested.
... "



 
I really like the contrast between the softness of the makeup and the edginess of the tattoos.  Will I be picking some up?  I don't know that I have the legs to pull it off, but if you do, they will be available to purchase for $75 at selected Chanel Boutiques in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.  Show your Chanel love without the commitment or permanency of a real tattoo, unlike these people I read about here who kind of scare me!


Stay tuned I will be posting the pictures and product info for the Chanel Spring makeup collection next week!

- Lisamarie -

2 comments:

  1. I think the tattoos look really soft & feminine, like it!

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  2. I'm sure this is the first time I have ever read soft & feminine and tattoo together in the same sentence! ;-) Pearls and birds are certainly more feminine then say an anchor with the word MOM on your bicep...

    Best, Lisamarie

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