The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: A Book Review on the Iconic Designer

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, Culture

As the Black Lives Matter movement questions how we look at the past, some think it. As the Black Lives Matter movement questions how we look at the past, some think it's time for fashion to confront its adoration of Chanel.

Do Coco Chanel's Nazi Connections Matter For Fashion Today?

Anne de Courcy’s history of the French Riviera is a fascinating – if chaotic – account of the highs and lows felt by Chanel’s social circle up to and including World War II.

Coco Chanel escaped to the Riviera. The war followed her there.

With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.

Coco Chanel - Quotes, Fashion & Facts

This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel’s life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler’s SS.Gabrielle

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War by Hal Vaughan, Paperback

Who was Coco Chanel? To many, she was -and still is- a fashion icon. Not only is she just a fashion icon, but an inspiration, a hopeful dream, to inspiring designers and artists. Born into poverty in France in 1883, Coco Chanel (real name Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel) is a perfect example of a “rags-to-riches” story.

Opinion: Honoring Coco Chanel's Tarnished Legacy? – The SRVHS Wolfprint

Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

15 Things You Didn't Know About Coco Chanel

An enormous mythology has grown around Gabrielle Chanel. It has never been in dispute that she was a creative genius, highly skilled at her craft, and possessed a canny business sense. But as fame has turned into celebrity and, most recently, into “branding”, the emphases in her story have twisted: from discretion to a hunt for truth and then back to hagiography, this time for the purpose of marketing.

Beyond the little black dress: 'Gabrielle Chanel – Fashion Manifesto