Coco Channel’s High-fashion Cell Phone

Fashion phones, trendy little mobile devices that typically look better than they work, are increasingly common these days. Many are born when stolid handset makers decide to do something a little different, while others come from partnerships of electronics companies companies and fashion moguls. This latest one, though, comes straight from Coco Chanel (through designer Fred de GARILHE), and while it has perhaps a little too much branding on it for our tastes, it is quite a looker.
When closed the phone looks something like one side of a chromed Rubik’s Cube. It slides open to reveal a semi-transparent glass screen said to be driven by an “optical fiber” system. The sliding portion of the cover lights up and turns into a number pad, while the other buttons on the right turn into start and end call buttons. It’s perhaps not the most ergonomic looking thing, and it’s also just a prototype so it may never see the light of day beyond these concept sketches, but it’s an innovative take on phone design and we’re all for a little innovation in the handset market.

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