Coco Mademoiselle is far and away the best Chanel perfume," says beauty editor Beth Gillette (and Cosmo's most fragrance-obsessed editor). "The notes are all blended seamlessly, it smells clean and ...

Coco Chanel did not design clothes merely to make the people wearing them look good. At least as the bio-drama “Coco Before Chanel” has it, the French fashion icon was striking significant social ...

For a queen of haute couture, lately Coco Chanel has seemed awfully — mais oui! — off the rack. Ready-to-watch bios have been popping up like Hong Kong knockoffs. First there was the TV bio “Coco ...

Jacqueline Kennedy was wearing a Chanel suit on the day her husband was assassinated. Marilyn Monroe famously adopted Chanel No. 5 as her scent. Even earlier, Hollywood clamored for Chanel to design ...

"Coco Before Chanel," starring Audrey Tautou, might hurt the box office prospects for a second film, but the two portraits complement each other surprisingly well - both chronologically and in the way ...

A bolt of fabric, some thread, a few buttons. They don’t mean much by themselves. But the way they’re cut and assembled, shaped and worked — that’s the art of a great designer. It’s about taking ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...