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In August we got "Valentino: The Last Emperor, " a documentary about Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani. A month later came "The September Issue, " another doc, about Vogue magazine editor ...

She gave us trousers for women, black as a fashion statement, fake pearls and the little black dress, but while Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel revolutionised women's fashion with her clean lines and ...

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 &Igor Stravinsky" is about the affair between composer Igor Stravinsky and designer Coco Chanel. Let us pause for a moment and enjoy that sentence. Who ever would have thought that 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 ...