Topic: Chanel SA

Satisfy Your Inner Diva With Designer Bracelets?

Designer products are the rave in this generation's lifestyle. From clothes to bags and even many a designer bracelet! If you are, then you are probably spending a considerable amount of time surfing the net or browsing shops in ...READ»

Tanking Economy Shutters Chanel's Artsy Pavilion

Even tony brands like Chanel are trying to cut corners in this merciless economy, which means indulgences like the traveling art pavilion face the budget ax.READ»

Art + Sex + Zaha Hadid + Brandbuilding = Chanel

Fueled by a fortune built on a handbag, a glossy white art-filled spaceship has touched down in Central Park. It’s designed by Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize winning Iraqi architect and underwritten by Chanel, making for a kind of architecture-meets-fashion-meets-art-meets-brand promotion fantas-magoria.READ»

The Brand Called... Who? III

From airlines to human beings, the BBC reported yesterday that Americans are increasingly apt to name their children after commercial brands. One reason for the popularity of brands as names is a growing desire on the part of ...READ»

Queen for the Day

Job Titles of the Future: Pookie MelbergREAD»

Is the Times Travel Section Tone Deaf?

The "Travel Winter 2008" issue of the New York Times Style Magazine features imagery of our rapidly melting polar caps. The photospread of the grand scenery is juxtaposed with luxury items such as $6845 black and white pelt of a mammal formerly known as endangered or a $3195 Chanel bag.READ»

Target and Trump: Strange Bedfellows of the Recession

Target unveiled its new spring and summer line in the penthouse of a tony high rise overlooking the river. If this doesn't signal the end of the "Reign of the I-Bank Moguls," nothing does.READ»

Advertisers in Issue 41

Interact with the companies whose products and services are advertised in Fast Company.READ»

Zaha Hadid's Faucet Turns Us On

Can’t afford a Zaha Hadid Aqua Table from Established and Sons? Then how about something similarly swoopy and a little more modestly priced? Just in time for spring kitchen remodeling projects, the Pritzker Award-winning architect ...READ»

Web Design Basics for Entrepreneurs

When is it appropriate to hire a graphic designer? When should you use Flash animation or HTML? We are joined by Sparxoo’s Senior Designer, Deirdre Zahl, to discuss the basics of web design and how entrepreneurs can utilize design for their brand.READ»

Advertisers in Issue 33

3M Post-it Easel www.3m.com/post-it AB Watley www.abwatley.com Acura www.acura.com Agilent Technologies www.agilent.com Agillion www.agillion.com Alitalia www.alitaliausa.com Alliance Capital www.alliancecapital.com American Power ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Architecture

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Architecture.READ»

What a Packaging Makeover Can Do For Your Company

Recently, some of the world's best-known companies have revamped their images through a radical redesign of their product packaging. Just how successful have these makeovers been?READ»

What I've Learned About Business from Mike Rowe

One of my favorite shows is Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on the Discovery Chanel.   Mr. Bartender has actually been employed in a few of the jobs shown during the opening credits.  When we met, his job was doing whale ...READ»

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs

The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda

Lagerfeld Dictionary!

Karl Lagerfeld (aka the Kaiser), famous designer for Chanel, Chloe, and Fendi designed the 2009 edition of France’s premiere dictionary “Le petit Larousse illustré” (Larousse Small Illustrated Dictionary) released on November ...READ»

Dear Kate Moss, Advice for Michael Phelps?

Yes, Michael Phelps agreed to one too many product endorsements (really, Rosetta Stone?). Yes, he doesn't have the personal branding intelligence (or strategic entourage) of this month's cover boy, Shaun White. And yes, he probably ...READ»

Futuristic Installations for Chicago's Millennium Park Unveiled

Chicago's Millennium Park isn't hurting for art installations, with a Frank Gehry-designed bandshell, a brilliant mirrored sculpture by Anish Kapoor, and elegant grounds landscaped by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. But on June 19, ...READ»

The Future of Design

From the $300,000 table to the $30 teakettle, design is dressing up the American way of life. READ»

What the world needs now is ... Soft Capitalism

While meandering around the Murray Hill district of Manhattan,  I was stopped dead by an intriguing sign: "Sal Anthony, famous Italian chef, has gone raw!" An Italian Chef going raw? Is that like a Chanel shopper going ...READ»

Rise of the Aerotropolis

As competition shrinks the globe, the world is building giant airport-cities. They look monstrous to American eyes--and that could be a problem. READ»

These Boots Were Made for Selling

The hottest site for haute couture? It's eBay. If you're Manolo Blahnik, is that a good thing?READ»

Rush Hour

Russell Simmons, the godfather of hip-hop, has used street smarts and a platinum Rolodex to create a $300 million conglomerate. Now he's flexing his political muscle. Come inside the frenetic world of a modern entrepreneur.READ»

Nightmare in Boomtown

Mark Seidenfeld was just another American cashing in on the post-Soviet boom. Then one bad deal in Kazakhstan sent his life into a spiral of extortion, siberian prison, and frontier justice. A cautionary tale.READ»

Project Rehab

As an academic renegade, Tim Gunn pushed Parsons the New School for Design to adopt a businesslike curriculum. Now the star of Project Runway is trying to revive Liz Claiborne as its chief creative officer. Can he "make it work" or is it "auf Wiedersehen" for a once-great American fashion house?READ»

• Life After Project Runway -- on the Web
• From Project Runway to the Web
• Put Some Style In Your Lifestyle