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 ...

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: 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? A ...

Review: New book alleges Coco Chanel was a German spy in World War II. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 53°F. Saturday, March 15th 2025 Today's e-Edition. Home Page.

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.