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Coco Before Chanel (French: Coco avant Chanel) is a 2009 biographical drama film directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine. The film stars Audrey Tautou and details the early life of French fashion designer Coco Chanel. The film premiered in Paris on 6 April 2009 and was released in France and Belgium on 22 April 2009.
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.
French actor Olivier Sitruk played Capel in Coco Chanel (2008), a French-Italian-British television film, starring Shirley MacLaine as an elder Chanel. Alessandro Nivola played Capel in the film Coco avant Chanel (2009), starring Audrey Tautou as Chanel. Anatole Taubman played him in Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009).
Balsan is best known in the present day as having kept Coco Chanel as his mistress. Among his other lovers was famed French actress and courtesan Émilienne d'Alençon. [1] While the Balsan family was a part of the upper class circle, Étienne (and his brother Jacques Balsan) were neither landed gentry nor titled aristocrat. [2]
After France's defeat Dincklage returned to Paris. He began a relationship with fashion designer Coco Chanel, living with her until 1944 in the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. [13] In 1943 he introduced Chanel to Theodor Momm a former army comrade, who supervised French textile production for the Third Reich. [14]
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.
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.
Chanel (/ ʃ ə ˈ n ɛ l / shə-NEL, French: ⓘ) is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1910 by Coco Chanel in Paris.It is privately owned by French brothers, Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, through the holding company Chanel Limited, established in 2018 and headquartered in London.