Happy New Year! It is 2014 and I wish you all the best for the upcoming year.
I am dedicating my first week to an amazing doll and her amazing suites. The first picture you are seeing is of the Ritz Hotel facade. She has researched this image and put so much time into making it as accurate as possible. I dare say, as beautiful too.
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
I found Stardoll last March when I was bed ridden with a bad back. I was spending too much on real CHANEL on EBay until I found it more fun to BE "Mademoiselle" on Stardoll. My father's family background is french and I have always been drawn to french things. When I saw my first CHANEL suit and handbag in a boutique in my 20's it was "Love at first sight" and the romance has continued through retail, sale, consignment, EBay and any other way I can collect CHANEL. My husband B (his fist initial) took me to Paris on our honeymoon and I bought my first scarf at a consignment store.
As for "Mademoiselle" on Stardoll, I've tried to catch the 1920's/30's Parisienne spirit of her with some artistic license.
Coco Chanel died January 10, 1971 at the age of 87, in her bed at the Ritz. Although she has been gone for 43 years, she is still an inspiration to so many today.
This suite is so beautiful in its detail and execution.
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
On my site the left rooms are her residence at the RITZ Hotel. I've done much research about her life and studied many photos of those spaces. I used those images to give as accurate a look to her rooms as possible, ... the items she had in her private apartment there.
Due to changes made to the camera function on SD, I am unable to get you the full image of this suite. But I think you can see, even from this image, the creativity of this doll. She has taken SD items and transformed them into something beautiful and timeless. So many hidden treasures.
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
Some times you will see a suitcase and male items belonging to Arthur "Boy" Capel (the love of Mademoiselles life) in her RITZ suites. He actually died 22 December 1919, aged 28, in a car crash but I wish to give them more time together. I am a romantic.
I have to admit, I didn't know much about how Coco lived the first time I visited this doll, I just loved her suites. Then I did a bit of "Google" research and I was amazed the the lengths she went through to recreate these amazing rooms... simply amazed...
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
I took great pains when designing the two "Chinoiserie" rooms and her living room above her boutique. She loved Chinese Coromandel folding screens and I tried to replicate the spirit of two of them that were/are in those spaces to this day. She used them as wall coverings, doors, screens, and added privacy and mystery to her spaces.
Everyone loves a good party... and so did Coco!
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
The RITZ Hotel Penthouse Jazz club and Garden Terrace are my idea of what a club at that time might look like. The real RITZ Hotel courtyard restaurant is on the ground floor and I may tackle that at a future date.
Everything about these suites takes you back to an era long gone... Wonderful!
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
DECO BELLES Private Club ( Left-side, top floor) is my interpretation of a "Members Only" club or Speakeasy of the 1920's/30's between WWI and WWII.
So, this image is due to the new functionality of the SD camera. Please take a moment and visit this suite, it truly is beautiful.
Coco_Chanel____
In her words:
The train is my interpretation of the Simplon-Orient Express. The train is traveling through the Alps at night during a snowstorm just as the character's in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" did. I hope to create one of the cabins in the future.
