“Well, I’m obviously a great fan of the little black dress,” quipped Tristram Hunt, director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, when asked about the appeal of “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto ...

Fashion designer Coco Chanel has been credited with developing the "modern woman." She once said, "I had rediscovered honesty, and in my own way, I made fashion honest." By loosening waistlines, ...

We all know the interlocking C's and that famous little black dress, but the woman behind the brand lived a life that was way ...

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 ...

1. Her first passion wasn’t fashion (and neither was her second). Chanel longed to be a professional singer and even frequented cabarets in France as a teen. She attempted a few numbers, but couldn’t ...

PARIS — Can a designer runway show — or, indeed, a single designer — change the way that women dress? That is a deceptively complex question. (Isn’t a designer’s job to help us solve the problem of ...

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, who created her own style and timeless classics such as the N°5 fragrance and two-piece tweed suit, was born on August 19, 1833 in France and would have been 140 this year She ...

From humble beginnings (she grew up in a convent orphanage), Coco Chanel went on to become one of the most influential designers of all time. The French style icon redefined women’s fashion by ...

As head designer and creative director Karl Lagerfeld took his bow at the end of the Chanel show last month in Paris, he paid homage to the legacy of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, who opened her first ...