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 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 ...

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 ...

As one of this year’s most highly anticipated films to reach the box office from France, Anne Fontaine’s latest feature film will both enchant and disappoint its audience. The witty yet slow moving ...

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 ...

La Pausa, Coco Chanel’s stylish villa on the French Riviera, sat high on a ridge overlooking the curvy shoreline of Monaco, surrounded by olive trees and fragrant gardens. This is where Chanel at 47 ...

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 ...

It's sweeter and muskier than Chanel No. 5, the brand's most recognizable fragrance (that your mom or grandma might love). So, I set out to test what many consider to be the best-smelling fragrance ...

“Coco Before Chanel” begins with an abandoned girl named Gabrielle, watches her grow into a music hall chanteuse, who then sidesteps prostitution by becoming a mistress. All the while, from behind the ...

Spectacle, a love triangle, heritage settings, bravura acting, witty dialogue, a bittersweet finale: There's something for everyone in Anne Fontaine's "Coco Before Chanel." By Bernard Besserglik, The ...

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