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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.
For the creators of the period drama, authenticity and sticking as close to the historical record was key.
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
A new exhibition at London’s V&A museum features some 200 pieces from the V&A’s collection, the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris and the heritage collections of the Chanel itself.
The Allure of Chanel (French: l'Allure de Chanel) are the memoirs of the French fashion designer Coco Chanel, told to her friend Paul Morand.The book was written in the winter of 1946 and is based on a series of conversations held at a hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where Chanel had invited Morand to write her memoirs.
Le nez de Chanel: The perfumer Ernest Beaux (1881–1961) Coco Chanel had wanted to develop a distinctly modern fragrance for some time prior to early-1920. At this time, Chanel's lover was Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov of Russia, the murderer of Rasputin. The duke introduced her to Ernest Beaux on the French Riviera. Beaux was the master ...
– Coco Chanel, 1971. CHANEL's timeless designs are still adored "May my legend prosper and thrive, I wish it a long and happy life!" – Coco Chanel, 1971. CHANEL's timeless designs are still adored
Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War is a 2011 book by journalist Hal Vaughan, it was published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, now part of Penguin Random House. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book is a biography of French fashion designer Coco Chanel , detailing her life from humble beginnings growing up in relative poverty, to her meteoric ...