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Coco Before Chanel (2009): a French-language biographical film directed by Anne Fontaine, starring Audrey Tautou as the young Chanel, with Benoît Poelvoorde as Étienne Balsan and Alessandro Nivola as Boy Capel; Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) was a French-language film directed by Jan Kounen.
Vera Bate Lombardi (born Vera Nina Arkwright, 11 August 1883 – 22 May 1947) was a socialite and close associate of Coco Chanel and the mother of Bridget Bate Tichenor.A British citizen at birth, she became a citizen of the United States after her first marriage and of Italy after her second marriage.
August 19, 1983: Coco Chanel was born on this day in 1883. Coco Chanel was the French designer who founded the fashion house, Chanel. She emerged as one of the most influential sportswear ...
In the obituary of one of Capel's daughters, he was described as "an intellectual, politician, tycoon, polo-player and the dashing lover and sponsor of the fashion designer Coco Chanel". According to that obituary, Capel was a Roman Catholic and his wife had converted to Catholicism in order to marry him, and their two daughters were raised as ...
Nancy Deihl explores all the events that led to the rise of designer Coco Chanel, and how she experimented with contradiction in her personal life and her fashion
The biography details Chanel's life, beginning in her early childhood, where she was born into poverty. She was born Gabrielle Chanel in 1883, in the Loire Valley of France. She lived in a home for the poor until the age of 12, where upon her mother's death, she moved to a Catholic orphanage.
What did Coco Chanel and Christian Dior disagree about? Chanel opened her first independent shop on Rue Cambon in Paris in 1910 at the age of 27.
In 1924, Coco Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimers creating a corporate entity, "Parfums Chanel." Chanel believed that the time was opportune to extend the sale of her fragrance Chanel No. 5 to a wider customer base. Since its introduction it had been available only as an exclusive offering to an elite clientele in her boutique.