Coco Chanel's secret life: Biography & trivia

Strutting Into The Secret Life Of Coco Chanel - Ripley's Believe

A feminist hero, Nazi collaborator … and resistance agent? A groundbreaking BBC documentary explores her myths and mysteries

How Coco Chanel embroidered her contradictory life story

To mark the anniversary of Coco Chanel’s death, Emily Cope takes a look at the designer’s greatest fashion styles and her not-so fashionable personal life

Coco Chanel: How the fashion designer's legacy lives on 50 years

My Love Affair with Chanel, Part III

Fashion designer Coco Chanel became a successful entrepreneur after transforming her hat shop into the iconic fashion house Chanel is today. See her biography.

Who Was Coco Chanel? See Her Biography and Career Details

Coco Chanel: facts from her secret life

Coco Chanel: facts from her secret life

As a new exhibition featuring the work of Gabrielle Chanel opens at the V&A, we examine the life of the designer – and exclusively reveal details of her contribution to wartime Resistance efforts. As a new exhibition featuring the work of Gabrielle Chanel opens at the V&A, we examine the life of the designer – and reveal details of her wartime activity.

Breaking news: Gabrielle Chanel helped the resistance during WWII

Coco Chanel Revisited, Architectural Digest

Please note this event is now taking place at Christ Church, Julian Road. The date and time are unchanged. SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie, former Features Director of British Vogue, joins us to give a talk on her definitive biography exploring the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a fabled fashion icon. Unveiling remarkable details about Coco Chanel's traumatic childhood and her flight into unconventional adulthood, this beautifully constructed portrait reveals her passionate and painful past, her turbulent loves and losses, her quest for fame and fortune, and how she transformed herself into her own most powerful creation. Feared and revered by her contemporaries, Chanel died in 1971, but her legacy lives on as an enduring global brand. Drawing on interviews with her last surviving friends and relatives, and unprecedented archival research, Justine Picardie brings Chanel out of hiding, unpicking the seams between reality and myth, and telling a timeless story that uncovers the true art and heart of fashion. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the greatest designer in the world. Adding fresh insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives. Picardie is the author of five books, including her critically acclaimed memoir If The Spirit Moves You. A former Director of British Vogue, she is currently a fashion columnist for Stella and also writes for several other newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Telegraph, Harpers Bazaar and Red.

Justine Picardie on Coco Chanel

The French fashion house has launched its first fragrance in 15 years, named after the legendary founder.

In celebration of Gabrielle Chanel: the new fragrance and iconic

The series SHE DID IT HER WAY features female entrepreneurs who took risks, wore many hats, pushed boundaries, and believed in themselves. Through their wisdom, journeys, insights, and stories, I gain the edge we all seek and my entrepreneurial journey is inspired by their chronicles.

SHE DID IT HER WAY - COCO CHANEL

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