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    Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    07/04/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    I've always associated Chanel as the fashion label of choice for the wives of Malaysian prime ministers and New Jersey mobsters.
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    Image of great_white_snark great_white_snark
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    As someone who couldn't be any further from the industry- did Karl always look like this?
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    Image of angie _tempura angie _tempura
    07/05/09

    @great_white_snark: He looked fine in the 70s. It might be due to the weight loss.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    07/05/09

    @angie _tempura: No, he used to be the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Presumably there still exist people in the world with the last name Chanel? What are they to do, exactly?
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Lagerfeld really is the the Michael Jackson of the fashion world - talented but truly scary in mind and body.
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    His makeup is from the Chanel mortuary collection.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    I was going to host a Chanel-a-thon Fourth of July party, but now my dreams of a Chanel get-together have been deChanelled. What in the Chanel am I going to do with two hundred logo'd frankfurters? I was feeling really Chanel, dressed to the Chanels, lighting the grill that burns with the intensity of a thousand Chanels but now I am bereft, lost, like unemployed St. Laurent, wandering around Paris picking up crap from Moujik number eight. Chanel.
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    07/03/09

    @Private Hangnail: I just Chanel-ed in my pant.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Meanwhile, rising undergarment industry star Hoi Polloi Hosiery is meeting with lawyers to discuss suing for the title of this post.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Nice try, Foster. This post is merely bait for commenting lawyers to disagree with you and thus give you a pretext to ban or destar (oh, the horror!).


    Most lawyers (excluding, this one) reading this post would be compelled to point out the importance in preventing and/or stopping the misappropriation of such a valuable trademark like Chanels. Some lawyers(again, excluding this one), might even ask you the question of what Gawker Media's lawyers would do if a website called Gawkster, Fawker or Deadsplat started a gossip/media or sports blog.


    Like I said, ban bait.

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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/03/09

    @resipsaloquacious: Fawker? I like!
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: Also, disagreeing isn't a pretext for destarring or bannning. Point things out! But being an asshole: definitely grounds for banning.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: Foster, I thought you were going to teach me about evil, not make me feel seriously displeased. Resipsa is one of the smartest cookies on this site and I don't think he was being an asshole, he was pointing something out to you.


    This is ungood.

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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    07/20/09

    @BookishLookish: I think Mr. Kamer was being declarative re his "asshole" sentence and not accusatory.

    With that said I will cautiously point out in a similarly declarative tone that "gasoline" "cellophane" and "aspirin" are all words that used to be trademarked until the masses sullied them with their filthy tongues. I'm sure an easy trope in law school is pointing out the commonality of "Kleenex" and "Xerox" and the hazard they run of losing their lucrative capitalization. Chanel isn't a product used by a huge percentage of the population so the hazard would seem to be much smaller but I guess they have a lawyer who wanted to assert themselves, perhaps for career reasons or sexual unhappiness.

    And speaking of sex, Bookish, our Citrus Babylon awaits a mere hour north of where I sit at this very moment. If that's too expository for a Monday morning I apologize. I took klonopin last night. I mean Klonopin. Don't yell at me, F. Hoffmann–La Roche, Ltd.
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    Image of Mohamed Ndiaye-Kingué Mohamed Ndiaye-Kingué
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Does Lagerfeld still have any original skin left on his face?
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    07/03/09

    @Mohamed Ndiaye-Kingué: He never had any to start with, at least of the human variety. He needs a new flesh suit, lest his true reptilian appearance burst through his leathery, craquelured mask.
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    Image of Claudia Maria Alonso Claudia Maria Alonso
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    To be honest, and as someone who is involved in the industry..I could not be happier that Chanel ran this ad in WWD. More power to the brand and Karl.
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    Image of mexiback mexiback
    07/03/09

    @Claudia Maria Alonso: Let's all ride the train to Takingmyselftooserioulsyville. Population: the 'fashion' people.
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    07/03/09

    @mexiback: I didn't know Maria Conchita Alonso was a garmento. More power to her.
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    Our family has owned about five different bearded collies over the last forty years, so I speak from experience when I say Karl looks like he could use a good de-shedding comb.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/03/09

    @Dickdogfood: Yeah but think how clean he must be able to get pots and pans with that 'do.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    07/03/09

    @DahlELama: On the other hand, velcro walls terrify him.
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    Image of spitneybeers spitneybeers
    07/03/09

    In reply to Karl Lagerfeld Will Not Tolerate Hoi Polloi Appropriations Of Chanel
    This trendy slut wants to use a Chanel condom!


    Incidentally, Foster, the commoners are taking the name of Chanel in vain, not in vein.

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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    07/03/09

    @spitneybeers: Only because the commoners can't afford Chanel-brand heroin.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    07/03/09

    @mmstk101: YES. You keep your star, sir.
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    07/04/09

    @Foster Kamer: If the inference that it will be hard to keep one's star next week was meant to read that we have to catch all your typos, then it will be a slippery trinket to acquire indeed.
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