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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.
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
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 ...
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.
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. What she was doing felt revolutionary in its own ...
– 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
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.
The Wertheimers took full control of Chanel’s fashion and fragrance divisions in 1954, according to Bloomberg—in exchange for paying Coco Chanel’s bills and taxes for the rest of her life.