The fashion rumour-mill is grinding itself into a frenzied overdrive right now as gossip reaches fever pitch over whether or not Lanvin god, and he-of-the-tongue-twister-name, Alber Elbaz is about to succeed Kaiser Karl Lagerfeld to the double C’d throne at Chanel. Last summer whispers of said replacement were swiftly hushed but over the weekend, blogger, Tommy Ton claimed he was sitting on news that would, “SHAKE the fashion world”.

Now Aussie Grazia have poked their beaks in and professed:

“We at grazia.com.au think we might know what this earth-shattering news might be - with rumours circulating that Karl Lagerfeld’s tenure at Chanel is coming to an end and none other than Alber Elbaz will be announced as his successor.”

Quite frankly, the hot question is not whether or not the insanely talented Elbaz will be able to rise to the task in hand, but whether or not he will follow Karl’s serious shrinkage and get his tubby ass down to micro-one (and subsequently resort to wearing giant-collared shirts to tuck the post-weight loss multiple necks into). Not that he should, I love Alber’s jolly rotund stature, his cartoony dickie-bows and his ability to celebrate and dress the female form rather than making malevolent, twisted statements regarding the “over” size of certain female models.

Posted on March 15, 2010 at 8:24:11 by The Real Runway