Vanessa Paradis Named the New Face of CHANEL Lipstick: In 1992, Vanessa Paradis whistled and displayed her skills as an acrobat, lending her youthful grace and already exceptional personality to the Coco fragrance. In 2003, in front of Karl Lagerfeld’s camera, Vanessa became the muse of the Cambom handbags. In 2010, Vanessa’s modern elegance, boldness of character and power of emotion will unite with a range of lipsticks with an evocative name: Rouge COCO de CHANEL. The special relationship thus continues, with consistency and modernity.

Looks like Next season’s big trend is a flat look that debuted backstage at Alexander Wang, courtesy of Butter London’s Nonie Crème, who created the finish by putting her Nail Foundation base coat on top of her flesh-toned go-to Yummy Mummy. Look out for matte color collections from Zoya and Orly this fall, as well as Opi’s line launching in July.

Opi Matte, $8.50, available in July at www.opi.com

Chanel’s creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, created a jade lacquer from the brand’s Fall 2009 show.

Karl Lagerfeld will launch Kapsule, a trio of mix ‘n match unisex fragrances, this coming November.

It is Lagerfeld’s first fragrance project under new licensing arrangements with Coty; a company representative noted that: Lots of people are doing three fragrances, but only at an expensive price, as a limited edition. Here, the idea was to say we will propose a capsule wardrobe of fragrances…at a price that is in line with the market. 

Kapsule Light was developed by perfumer Mark Buxton, and has notes of bitter orange, jasmine, nutmeg, clove and musk.