Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, “Coco’s” first customers were princesses and duchesses, but she dressed them like secretaries and stenographers in faux pearls, trench coats, simple knits, turtleneck ...

While the biggest buzz around books and Coco Chanel of late has been the scandalous new biography, "Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War" (which accuses the designer of working with the ...

Known for her nontraditional approach to design, Chanel set trends using unconventional fabrics, colors and textures; many of which took root in menswear. Today, she is often credited as the mother of ...

Tell that to Brisbane, where Coco Chanel: the Life of a Fashion Icon sold out all 17 performances before the season started. I reckon Chanel herself would have gone for a more streamlined title. She ...

Are we about to witness the chronic and debilitating fall of an icon? Or in a category that reinvents itself by default, can Chanel do just that--to win renewed celebration and praise? Like many great ...

Apple TV+ "The New Look" shines a light on Coco Chanel's murky history as a Nazi informant and spy. The fashion designer was recruited to be a part of a failed Nazi operation named 'Modelhut' in 1943.

It’s hard to imagine a world where Coco Chanel’s (Juliette Binoche) name is not on a guest list. However, rejection did happen—and is swift—in a recent episode of Apple TV+ historical drama The New ...

Vendome Press. 2005. $50. Typically there are two kinds of fashion books. Glossy coffee-table books celebrate image and ego. But by the time the last page is turned, one has the empty feeling of ...

Later in life Coco never used the word “orphanage.” Instead, she said her father took her to stay with unmarried “aunts” who always dressed in gray and black. “My aunts were good people, but ...

Fashion is in fashion all over TV these days, but Lifetime's international co-production "Coco Chanel" has less to do with haute couture than high melodrama, recounting a life story so insanely frothy ...