No. 5

no talk about black and white in the world of fashion will be complete without a discussion on Chanel. so all material and posts today are my little tributes and offerings to Coco Chanel.

here are the three things one must know about Chanel...

1) the perfume

liquid gold, No.5 de Chanel

No. 5 de Chanel, or Chanel No.5, is the scent that would epitomize the boyish, modern flapper that would speak to the liberated spirit of the 1920s. all i can say about this scent is, once you have been hugged by someone wearing No.5... you have been HUGGED!!! you will smell like No.5... this is one perfume that everyone should try at least once... by the way, a bottle of Chanel No.5 is sold every thirty seconds.

2) the little black dress

the LBD on American Vogue in 1926

since i ran a post on the LBD... i shan't repeat myself but thank you Coco Chanel for the little black dress...

3) the Chanel suit

ladies in the Chanel suit

The influential Chanel suit, launched in 1923, was an elegant suit comprising a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of woven wool with black trim and gold buttons and worn with large costume-pearl necklaces.

LBD

okay... guys are supposed to be better at technology right? WRONG! i spent most of the evening trying to add the nuffnang thingy (see, i don't even know the term!) onto my blog but i failed terribly (hopefully by the time this post goes up, it's been fixed!) and then i thought about every possible fashion frustration that people can have... it's called THE RIGHT OUTFIT!

can we ever find the right outfit? is there something out there that one can wear and do no wrong? i guess there is... it's the Little Black Dress...

every girl (at any age) needs a LBD... doesn't matter the fabric or brand but if you find one that pleases you, buy it (i would buy two or even three if i were you...) it is probably that one dress that you would turn to when you are at a loss for outfits... it's the one outfit that will match any bag, any hairdo, any accessory... so treasure your LBD and take care of it...

what about the men? what is the one fashion piece that should be in the closet?

my pick will be a plain black singlet... for the gentlemen, it's a no-brainer when trying to match a bottom to the black singlet... jeans, berms of any colour, shorts (running or otherwise). yes, it absorbs a lot of heat when out in sunny singapore but the sweat prints are less obvious... it's not cool to look like you are wearing the world map with patches of dry land and ocean on you...

think it's way too causal and need a quick change? throw a jacket, sweater or shirt over it and you should do fine... personally, the black singlet 'look' (if i can call it that) allows you to be out the whole day without having to worry much... like earlier mentioned, just keep something else on hand for the needed swift transformation...

final note, black usually flatters any body types... like they (whoever they are) always say, one can never go wrong with black! BAM!