Friday’s release of the illustrated biography “Coco Chanel” falls on what would have been the late designer’s birthday. Zena Alkayat penned the heavily researched quick read and Nina Cosford provided ...

But a rep for the Chanel fashion house denies the accusations in Hal Vaughan's "Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War." By THR Staff Gabrielle Chanel (1883 - 1971) known as Coco, the ...

Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born in 1883. When her mother died Coco was only twelve years old. Her father abandons her and her siblings in the largest orphanage of the region, a convent in ...

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 ...

Just last November, the Coco Chanel biography "Coco Before Chanel" landed in theaters. Today, we get another, "Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky." Getting two biographies on the same person in such a ...

A new book about the life of Coco Chanel published in the United States on Tuesday aims to strengthen claims the French designer collaborated with the Nazis during World War II as a spy code-named ...

A new book about the life of Coco Chanel published in the United States on Tuesday aims to strengthen claims the French designer collaborated with the Nazis during World War II as a spy code-named ...