The fashion house hopes the new title, Arts & Culture, can extend Coco Chanel’s legacy of surrounding herself with “audacious ...

The fashion designer Coco Chanel spent WWII collaborating with the Nazis as a new book details, but it doesn’t take away from her fabulous life.

Book review: ‘Mademoiselle,’ a biography of Coco Chanel, by Rhonda K. Garelick December 19, 2014 More than 10 years ago is the fashion critic for The Washington Post.

Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a Nazi spy?

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 ...

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Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, shown here in a 1939 photograph, launched her makeup line in 1924. George Hoyningen-Huene Estate Archives. The tome is organized into seven chapters named after the ...

Coco Chanel was the best-dressed Nazi spy in the 1940s, according to a shocking new book on her life, which claims the creator and muse behind the Chanel brand was an intelligence operative for the… ...

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born in 1883 in a hospice for the poor in Saumur, western France. ... who stayed at the Aubazine convent during the research for her book.

In her 2010 book, Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, fashion writer Justine Picardie posits Chanel as a resistance fighter, suggesting a multi-faceted relationship with the Nazis and the Allied ...

A dance show about Coco Chanel, the fashion trailblazer who was notoriously antisemitic and a Nazi collaborator, is making its U.S. premiere.