Crystal Renn

New York Fashion Week

Crystal Renn Makes New York Fashion Week Appearance at Z Spoke

>> Crystal Renn has been embraced by Paris designers — Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier both picked her for their recent campaigns — so it was only a matter of time before she and her curves were welcomed stateside once again.

>> Crystal Renn has been embraced by Paris designers — Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier both picked her for their recent campaigns — so it was only a matter of time before she and her curves were welcomed stateside once again. The designer who takes the honor? Zac Posen, who sent Renn down the Z Spoke runway, marking her first appearance of the week. “I’m freaking out," she told People. "Zac is one of the ones you want. Zac, Calvin and Marc are the big three. I booked one of my three.”

Chanel

New York Treated to a Karl Lagerfeld Appearance at Chanel's Soho Store Re-Opening Last Night

>> Baptiste Giabiconi was rumored to make his singing debut at the Chanel Soho store party in New York last night — Karl Lagerfeld is reportedly pushing him to be a pop star — but apparently he got cold feet.
New York Treated to a Karl Lagerfeld Appearance at Chanel's Soho Store Re-Opening Last Night

>> Baptiste Giabiconi was rumored to make his singing debut at the Chanel Soho store party in New York last night — Karl Lagerfeld is reportedly pushing him to be a pop star — but apparently he got cold feet. Instead, guests were treated to the redone store, cordoned off from the public by a LED display wall playing Chanel videos and brimming with editors (Sally Singer, Robbie Myers, Cecilia Dean, Amy Astley); models (Heidi Mount, Jessica Stam, Magdalena Frackowiak, Anja Rubik, Freja Beha Erichsen, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Erin Wasson, Shalom Harlow, Crystal Renn); and Chanel favorites like Poppy Delevigne, Caroline Sieber, Diane Kruger, Liv Tyler, Courtney Love, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Alexa Chung, who was DJing the party, asked last night if she could buy the new Chanel Les Khakis nail polish (which came out today), but she was told she had to wait until this morning to pick it up. And before Lagerfeld arrived, publicists scraped graffiti stickers, posters, and fliers off the scaffolding by the red carpet. They even had box cutters to scrape off tape and remnants. But that wasn't the only prep done in anticipation of Lagerfeld's arrival: The Daily reports from sources working in the building that houses the Soho boutique that Lagerfeld also demanded his own private bathroom to use during the party, and thus, one was built.

Waiters stood by holding trays of Chanel-logoed spray paint cans which could be used to tag a LED wall near the store's entrance, and the gift bag held a silk scarf printed with a polar bear among camellias. Lagerfeld also took the opportunity to show off his new discovery, 19-year-old French singer Izia, who took the stage at the party (thus intimidating Giabiconi).

Chanel

Crystal Renn's New Chanel Campaign Is "The Proudest Moment of Her Life"

>> Karl Lagerfeld snapped Baptiste Giabiconi and Crystal Renn in what her is her first campaign for Chanel — to promote the reopening of the brand's store in Soho, Manhattan, in September.

>> Karl Lagerfeld snapped Baptiste Giabiconi and Crystal Renn in what her is her first campaign for Chanel — to promote the reopening of the brand's store in Soho, Manhattan, in September.

The shoot happened a couple of months ago in a Paris studio, and Lagerfeld asked the two models to envision themselves as lovers in a glamorous movie. “He said, ‘You’re not a model right now, you’re an actress,'" Renn told Fashionista. "The only difference between modeling and acting is that models have one second to tell a story and actresses have two hours.”

She thinks Baptiste is "perfection" »

Courtney Love

Fashion in 50 Seconds 7/22/10 Courtney Love Burned a Gift From Marc Jacobs, Crystal Renn Doesn't Want to Lose Weight

When Marc Jacobs gifted Courtney Love his Perry Ellis Grunge Collection, she burned it.

When Marc Jacobs gifted Courtney Love his Perry Ellis Grunge Collection, she burned it.

Crystal Renn talks weight loss on Today.

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Crystal Renn Addresses Weight Loss Concerns, Recently Started Working Out After Seven-Year Hiatus

>> Crystal Renn's agent recently addressed rumors that she was losing weight after images came out portraying her much thinner.

>> Crystal Renn's agent recently addressed rumors that she was losing weight after images came out portraying her much thinner. Now, Crystal herself has spoken out, saying that she was "shocked" when she saw the images and adding, "they look retouched to me." See a pre-retouch image here.

Renn, who is featured in the Fall 2010 Jean Paul Gaultier ads (left), which she calls "a highlight in my career," says that she wants people to "feel reassured that I am taking care of myself and am very happy. I am a size 10. My weight loss is due to body adjustment because of working out after a seven-year hiatus." As for what started the weight loss: "It started with stress. Then, to take care of the stress, I went hiking in Patagonia for three weeks. Since then, I have continued hiking and have established a regular yoga and meditation program." She told Glamour: "It took me seven years to be ready to go back to the gym because I exercised in such an extreme way during my eating disorder."

Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld have encouraged her »

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Crystal Renn

>> Crystal Renn's Agent Addresses Her Rumored Weight Loss —Cries that "plus size" model Crystal Renn had lost weight rose up after she walked in Chanel's resort show back in May, and they resurfaced again today after new photos of Renn popped up looking even more svelte (left).

>> Crystal Renn's Agent Addresses Her Rumored Weight Loss —Cries that "plus size" model Crystal Renn had lost weight rose up after she walked in Chanel's resort show back in May, and they resurfaced again today after new photos of Renn popped up looking even more svelte (left).  When reached for comment by Fashionista, Renn's agent Gary Dakin replied: “She is still a 39-40 hip (she fluctuates like any woman), and a solid size 10.” He noted that she was measured just a few days ago for a fitting following a Vogue Paris shoot, adding: “She has no urge [to lose weight].” [Fashionista]