Friday, January 16, 2009

Beheading by Chanel

Two or three guillotines would probably be enough. Perhaps one on Wall Street, one on the Mall in the District of Columbia... This guillotine bearing the Chanel logo is designed by artist Tom Sachs. Not only advertising rights be sold to a luxury company, but it would serve as a reminder to the greedy and unscrupulous that the path to luxury is fraught with peril if one wanders off the righteous path, and infringes on the paths of others—and that society has the right and power to curtail and correct such a course.
GQ's Glenn O'Brien's comments HERE

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Monday, January 05, 2009

LAPD Confiscate $2.8-Million in Counterfeits

Los Angeles, California — More than 200,000 counterfeit apparel items and pirated CDs and DVDs, with a street value of $2.8 million, were seized last week in the second-largest raid in Los Angeles County history.
Operation Clean Sweep, which took place from Dec. 18 to 20 in multiple downtown Los Angeles locations, yielded 28 arrests.
Among the apparel items were virtually every luxury designer — Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Cartier, Ed Hardy, Coach.
Los Angeles Times report HERE

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Christmas Gift Idea # 33

Created by artist Nancy Wu...a Chanel purse made out of BEEF JERKY...
...word is Britney Spears would like to appear in the ad.

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Friday, January 04, 2008

Frances Bean; Fifteen; a Shill for Chanel

Fifteen-year-old Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain, is the new face for French fashion company Chanel.
more HERE

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