Audrey Tautou plays Coco Chanel in a biopic released this month – but the painstakingly-researched costumes are the real stars of the film, discovers Rosamund Witcher. There are fashion designers, and ...

As an old woman describing her beginnings, French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel once said, "I was able to start a high fashion shop because two gentlemen were outbidding each other over my hot ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are fashion designers, and then there is Coco Chanel. This month's big-screen biopic, Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel), charts the style pioneer's rise from impoverished abandoned child to ...