ok so i watched the Coco Chanel movie and here are my thoughts: i truly enjoyed the love story between Coco and Boy. i enjoyed the actress, Barbora Bobulova, who played the younger aged Coco (pictured right). as for Shirley Maclaine--major WTF. she didn't even have an ounce of an accent and that turned me off dearly. they did a good job of showing who the designer was and how she obtained her name and place in fashion. but again, Maclaine's part in the movie as the older Mademoiselle Chanel was disappointing. i feel as though her face on the US posters was publicized just because of her name. Bobulova however deserves all of the applaudissements.

so i'm pretty sure that i was one of the first in the blog world to inform about the Coco Chanel movie with the post, "the Coco show". now it's official; i know in my original post it appeared that it would be a mini-series, but no it's a movie. it's set to air on the Lifetime channel this month.

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...so you know what that means

Paris bid adieu to Yves Saint Laurent. attendees at the designer's funeral included the President and First Lady of France, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, fellow designers Giorgio Armani, Vivienne Westwood, Valentino and John Galliano, models Latetia Casta and Claudia Schiffer and YSL's legally wed partner along with the designer's 94 year old mother. on lookers clapped as the the simple oak coffin entered the church and moments later applauded again as the French flag covered coffin exited the church . the French couturier will be cremated and his ashes will be spread in the gardens of his Marrakesh villa.

according to Marie Claire UK, Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld has given the o.k. for a US mini-series based on the last years of Coco Chanel's life with Shirlie MacLaine playing the fashion icon. this will be a definite watch on my Sony 20".