The dreamy Chloe Fall and Winter fashion inspires and goes perfect with the colorful Autumn landscape outdoors. Check out the many beautiful nature colors and style combinations here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhovd5VbMc

Chloe available in several e-shops online. You’ll find them here.

Check out the coming trends from some of the most respected French and Italian fashion houses -- Hermes, Valentino, John Galliano and Valentino.

Hermes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpjanU7LhI

Chanel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NzOE4LAzJ0

John Galliano

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vffP5BH6_b8

Valentino

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLje90e23lQ

The Lacoste brand was founded in the 1930′s by the legendary French tennis player René Lacoste. Today Lacoste is known worldwide for quality piké t-shirts with a crocodile logo.

Winter Sales

The online shop offers 40% price reduction on selected styles.

Lacoste online shop preview

Free standard shipping of orders above $200 to selected countries.

Other online shops offering Lacoste

• Brandos - the largest shoe e-shop in Sweden
• Yoox - leading international multi-brand fashion shop with 2.300 brands

About Lacoste

The tennis player René Lacoste (1904-1996) founded the LACOSTE company known for the crocodile logo in 1927 in France. René was called “the alligator” on the tennis court by the American press after making a bet with the captain of the French Davis cup team on a suitcase made of alligator skin. Since then René embroidered a crocodile on his blazers for the tennis court. In 1933 René Lacoste and André Gillier, President of the largest knitwear manufacturer in France started designing t-shirts with the logo. Today the company has gone globally since long and offer a broader collection of clothes.

Lacoste about tennis in the future

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9rm8AtFXk

The French luxury fashion brand Hermès was founded in the 19th century and is today known globally for the handcrafted scarves, leather goods, jewellry, ties, apparel, fragrances, belts, watches and shoes.

Hermès official online shop

Hermès official online shop – shipping to several countries such as US

Hermès hand made and hand stitched bags

The handmade Kelly, Birkin and Constance bags have been and remain classics within the collection. Check out Hermès own video on how the bags are produced.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oTtvhqA-KM

Hermès scarves

The brand is probably most famous for the popular hand printed and hand stitched Hermès silk scarves. The motives vary from the French revolution and kitchen to the flora.

Hermès scarves video by Rosario Romagnosi

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_zyppsbOE

Demostration of how a the hand painted scarves are made

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc4tqon6ZBU

Fragrances

Aeveral fragrances has been launced since 1951 such as Kelly Calèche, Rouge Hermès and Terre D’Hermès.

Hermès fashion runway

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4DlXcQs6M

Yves Saint Laurent YSL was founded in 1961 and is today a part of the Gucci Group. The collections are a combination of quality, elegance and discrete yet important details for the modern women with a keen sense of following her own elegant and captivating style. The Fall and Winter fashion is inspired with several full fitted leather outfits.

The official YSL Yves Saint Laurent e-shop

Shipping is availabe in the US.

Other YSL online retailers

• Saks Fifth Avenue -- luxury online shop with roots in NY
• YOOX -- leading international fashion e-shop with over 2.300 top designer brands

Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Show Spring 2010

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzOr9vGXjk

YSL Fashion Fall Winter 2009 from Style.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSjHqWoI28

About the YSL company and the Gucci Group

The French couture brand Yves Saint Laurent YSL was bought by the Gucci Group in 1999 (the luxury part of the PPR Group). Thanks to CEO Valérie Hermann and Creative Director Stefano Pilati the brand has been re-established in the spotlight.

YSL Yves Saint Laurent Collection

The collections include all from shoes, clothing, handbags, jewellery, scarves, eyewear and ties. The collection named Rive Gauche is the prêt-a-porter line available worldwide and making it possible for fashion interested people to wear the luxury YSL clothing.

Flag ship stores

The YSL flagship stores are located in New York NY, Paris, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

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The Christian Louboutin shoes with the red sole has become every women’s dream.  The shoes can be found in 46 countries, and has cooperated with several famous designers such as Yves Saint Laurent.

What makes Louboutin so special video by WatchMojo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPzNlYTU98

Online shops offering Christian Louboutin

• Browns -- top labels outlet from UK
• Koodos -- fashion design outlet
• Net-a-porter -- leading top brands e-shop

Background

Christian Louboutin himself was born 1964 in Paris. In 1992 the first shoe boutique opened in Paris.

Lanvin is representing the Parisienne luxury fashion, perfumes and accessories. Since 2001 the company has been independent and the management aims to make the fashion house flourish as it once did. The Fall/Winter collection includes a lot of wonderful elegant black and beige pieces with metallic accessories. Lanvin has made a partner collection together with Swedish Acne.

Lanvin Fall / Winter Fashion Show 2009

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg86Ioic_cw

Lanvin online shop and retailers

• Acne -- Swedish fashion collection partner
• Brown Fashion -- Labels for less top brands outlet
• Lanvin.com -- the official Lanvin website
• FragranceNet.com -- online fragrance outlet
• Net-a-porter -- global luxury fashion mall
• YOOX -- leading global online fashion shop with over 2.300 top designer brands

History

Lanvin is the oldest French couture house founded by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889.

Bestseller: Chanel No 5

Chanel was founded by Gabrielle ”Coco” Chanel in 1910. The business started in a small scale in Paris as a hat store, and has since developed into a one of the most timeless, copied and known fashion labels in history.

Chanel’s official website (www.chanel.com) includes fashion show videos and information about the latest news and products. Chanel has no own webshop, while the products are offered from other online retailers such as:

• FragranceNet.com -- fragrance outlet
• Koodos.com – clothes and jewellry outlet
• Sephora.com – beauty products and fragrances
• Yoox -- leading international e-shop with more than 2.000 top labels

Collection classics

“The little black” dress

Chanel invented the small clean cut black dress that makes women elegant together with a few accessories. She was keen on mixing fake with real pearls, which in her view made “haute couture” affordable to a larger group of people.

Chanel No. 5  fragrance

A true classic fragrance that has been a bestseller since it was created in 1919. The perfume is inspired to enhance the feminine side of women, rather than nature and roses.

Chanel suits

The Chanel cut dresses and jackets have become classics that are often copied all over the world.

Quilted leather handbags

Leather quilted handbags in different sizes with golden decorated handles are also timeless pieces.

Jewels

Chanel jewels also contribute to the timeless wardrobe with for example the Chanel earrings with strass models.

Beauty – makeup and skin care

Luxury eye, lips and nail makeup as well as skincare and anti aging creams are also part of the business portfolio.

Biography

Coco Chanel was born in Saumur 1883 and grew up in a relatively poor home with four siblings. The name “Coco” was originally an artist name created during a period when she planned to become a cabaret singer. As a designer Coco Chanel was before her time, in her view that fashion should be elegant and still comfortable for women. During the Second World War she closed all her shops and left the country to live in the US and Schweiz for 15 years. Her come back came in 1950, at the age of 71. The collection that was called a failure in British press, and a success among the American media houses that like the comfortable Chanel dress style. Her motto was to design clean cut clothing for the independent women in timeless style.

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 The Parisienne label Chloé is known for its combination of bohemian chic and feminine fashion. The label appeals to the confident and stylish women.

 

 

 

The Chloé website and official online shop

The Chloé site includes a lot of inspiration, but no own online shop yet.

Online shops offering Chloé or See by Chloé

Chloé has unfortunately no own web shop on www.chloe.com. Other online retailers offering Chloé:

• Asos - award winning fashion retailer
• Bergdorf Goodman
• Browns Fashion -- Labels for less top brands outlet
• BubbleRoom -- leading e-shop in Sweden
• FragranceNet.com -  beauty (more…)
• Koodos.com - fashion outlet (more…)
• my-warderobe.com - designer fashion shop from UK
• Net-a-porter.com - luxury fashion (more…)
• Nieman Marcus
• Norstrom
• PiperLime.com - handbags and shoes (more..)
• Saks fifth Avenue -- NY based online shop with luxury brands
• Shopbop.com -- global women fashion retailer
• Stylebop - international luxury online shop
• Smartbargains.com -- online top brands outlet
• YOOX.com -- leading global online fashion shop with over 2.300 top designer brands

Chloé Fall / Winter 2009 runway

www.youtube.com/watch?v=njhovd5VbMc

Company history

Chloé was founded 1952 in Paris by the Egyptian born Parisienne Gaby Aghion and represented the prêt-à-porter style. The fashion was unique for its time when creating body consious and soft clothes from luxury fabrics. The name “Chloé” was chosen for its feminine and warm tonality which reflected the new youthful design mood in Paris. The brand is known for the assymetric and color blocked style. Both Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney has worked at the company and contributed to grow the brands popularity.

Brands

See by Chloé, Chloé

The Global Chloé & See by Chloé trend peaked 2004-2006
Internationally the brand Chloé peaked in 2004-2006 and is slightly decreasing in number of searches in Google. The Chloe label is however a large and classical brand often sought. See comparison below with MiuMiu and YSL.

Assortment

Fragrance, women clothing, jacket, outwear, skirts, trousers, tops, shirst, accessories, hand bags, eyewear, beachwear, children

Celebrities

Sienna Miller, Kate Bosworth and Mischa Barton has seen wearing Chloé on several occasions.

La Redoute online shop preview

Go to www.laredoute.com

La Redoute Fashion Runway 2009

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-gNBTCWEc

Clothes

Woman, man, children, lingerie, accessories, shoes, sports, interior and outlet.

Brands

2TWO, L’heure Anglaise, Active Wear, Adidas, American Vintage, Anne Weyburn, Antik Batik, Antik Denim, Arena, Asics, Athena, Be You K, Bensimon, Berangere, best, Billabong, Buffalo, Caterpillar, Chevignon, Chipie, Cocoon, Columbia, Complices, Converse, Dim, Dockers, Dora, Edeis, Energie, Et vous, Fila, Freeman T Porter, Geox, Glamorise, Impromptu, Kanabeach, Kookai, Redoute creation, La Redoute essentials, Laura Clement, le coq sportif, Le Cooper, Lestra, Levi’s, Manoush, Martin Blanc, Mellow Yellow, Michel Klein, Mexx, Nathalie, Requin, Nike, O Neill, Ober, Odaia, On n’est pas des anges, Oxbow, Passionata, Pepe jeans, Petit bateau, Princesse Tam-Tam, Pucca, Puma, Quicksilver, Ralph Lauren, Rene Derhy, Repetto, Reverie, Rip curl, Rocker dog, Roxy, Royal wear, Scenario, Schott, Sloggi, Snoopy, So’home, Soft grey, Sous entendus, Spiderman, Taillissime, Teddy Smith, Timberland, Timezone, Tipster, Tommy Hilfiger, Triumph, Vans, Wonderbra, Wrangler, Wyoiming, Zoe tee’s.

Countries

Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Korea, Norway, Portugal, Russia,  Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Time of delivery

5-7 days

La Redoute trend is slightly decreasing
Number of searches in Google is slightly decreasing. However the site is very large internationally compared for example with the catalogue company in the Nordics called Ellos.

Check out La Redoute’s online shop.