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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Nobody wants to be Amelie forever. Not even Audrey Tautou, whose film career got vertical lift by portraying a wide-eyed gamine with a unique sense of justice in the 2001 French charmer.

Countless books and films have told all or some fraction of how Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel came to dominate and transform the fashion industry. Followers of fashion have been regaled with tales of her ...