After the Galliano debacle, Marc Jacobs decided to lighten things up a little bit with the French Maid theme at his Louis Vuitton show this week. Kate Moss made a guest appearance on the runway as did Naomi, Stella Tennant and Amber Valletta.

I’m guessing this mademoiselle would like a bottle of Veuve sent to her room tout suite!

Marc Jacobs looking tres elegant!

With the recent firing of John Galliano for his anti semetic remarks how would Dior handle the show in Paris which happened this past Friday? With elegance of course. The show was opened by Dior CEO Sidney Toledano making opening remarks and instead of the usual designer appearance at the end of the show they brought out the white coated atelier, all the tailors, hand beaders and seamstresses – wow, these are the craftsmen who make it all happen and I would think a chance of a lifetime to see them all on stage like that.

I don’t know what’s going to happen with Galliano (rehab, prison?) or his namesake line but I guess we’ll stay tuned as this drama unravels.

New York fashion week just ended and now the fashionistas are all in Paris. I just love Grace Coddington, especially since seeing the The September Issue, and here she is doing what she does best! Anna who?
Such a bummer about John Galliano – so glad I didn’t wear Dior to the Academy Awards, talk about bad timing!
Maybe Galliano and Charlie Sheen should be in rehab together? and by rehab I mean jail! And there’s nothing cozy about that!

This post is dedicated to Lizzie B.
And if this doesn’t make us want to jump on a plane to Italy I don’t know what will!
I mean, Jenna Lyons, Creative Director of JCrew, in Florence, talking Italian made shoes, in amazingly cozy trattorias and eating pasta and gelato. All that’s missing is someone named Marcello or the likes thereof!
Watch the video and dream!

Wow, Ralph Lauren really raises the bar on their Fall website!( Can’t wait to see how JCrew will counter!)

They say the future of online advertising is all about video and here it is! And how dang cute! Although a little long, they certainly show a lot of merchandise all layered up in that Ralph Lauren way along with a really charming story. Of course getting Harry Connick. Jr. was a nice touch too! Personally I think they could have done a slightly better job at casting but that’s just my opinion.

I’ll be keeping my eye on their website to see what else they come up with – after all Ralph almost invented Cozy (in a most elegant way!).

Fall is approaching and that means soon we get to see all the new magazines and advertising campaigns. Cozyland LOVES magazines and can’t wait for all these new issues to be out! But what Cozyland loves even more is unbelievably beautiful advertising (it’s been a while..)and the new Louis Vuitton campaign epitomizes just that!

The idea is that Marc Jacobs took 3 supermodels from 3 different decades and put them all into one gorgeous campaign! We have the brunette, Christy Turlington, the redhead, Karen Elson (wife of Jack White from the White Stripes) and the blonde who is the baby, Natalia Vodianova. The style is pure glamour and dressing ladylike – a concept seemingly long forgotten!

If this doesn’t bring back the ponytail, I don’t know what will!!!

The campaign was shot in New York by Steven Meisel. Marc Jacobs had this to say:
“The strength of Louis Vuitton is its almost magical ability to reinvent itself every season,” says Artistic Director Marc Jacobs. “Last season was all about the idea of the New Age traveler. This season was a manifesto for beautiful, ladylike clothes. Two different collections, two different campaigns, but one Louis Vuitton.”

Phew! Seattle does have a LV store! For a second there I thought I was going to have to improvise!

And that, my friends, is called Cozy Sarcasm!!!!

Cozyland author has started a new and grueling job which is currently leaving her very very little time for blogging but have no fear, there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. For now, some short and sweet cozy posts to offer us all a little inspiration.

Bottom line, it’s Springtime – go out and dig in the dirt, get your hands dirty – now is the time! Plant a garden, whether its tomatoes, flowers, herbs or anything!!! The point is to just do it – you will feel better and have so much fun seeing the result!

P.S. After watching one of my heros Jamie Oliver do this I stuck some old potatoes with roots I had in the pantry into the ground and now I have 2 big potato plants!!! Not sure when to dig them up, not for a while, but what a fun project it is!

This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is their Men’s Fashion issue. I noticed most of the mens fashion ads had men accessorized with suitcases. Is everyone going somewhere for Spring? The Prada ad caught my eye because 1. it was so cool and 2. yes, they had amazing luggage. Then I noticed there was a video attached so off to Youtube I went!

These are some of the images to entice you to watch the video which is about 9 mins long and very beautiful, strange and cool. When I have time I will read more about how they made it, how they did the “tight rope” part with the male models.

Check out this amazing video by director Yang Fudong!