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 ...

Audrey Tautou sulks through her performance as Coco Chanel, a courtesan turned designer. ‘COCO Before Chanel” begs to be compared to “La Vie en Rose,” each being about a French ragamuffin who made it ...

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 ...