PARIS (AP) -- Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

Filled with legendary photos and fascinating history, a magnificent new book traces the evolution of Chanel makeup. Courtesy of Thames & Hudson; 2014 CHANEL Sølve Sundsbø; 2023 CHANEL Guido Mocafico ...

Rhonda Garelick never intended to write Coco Chanel’s biography. The original idea was more specific: a book about Chanel’s work as a stage costumer. But once Garelick started exploring her initial ...

PARIS (AP) -- A new book alleges that iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel was an anti-Semite and a Nazi spy. 'Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret Wars,' by American historian Hal ...

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War, by Hal Vaughan, expands on long-standing evidence that the iconic designer had a double life and was the lover of a spy, Baron Hans Gunther von ...