Surrounded by beauties whose hats looks like cakes ... At the end of Coco Before Chanel, the 30-something designer is on the brink of fame and fortune, watching as glamorous models descend ...

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was one of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers. A milliner by training, she moved beyond hats to become ... and her designs lived by these words: Chanel ...

Later in life, she told people that Coco was a childhood nickname. Perhaps because a cabaret career was ‘uncouth’ for a couture designer ... It was named Chanel Modes and her hats were soon ...

Tweed jackets, the little black dress, menswear as womenswear: Coco Chanel is responsible ... habits began to inform her design aesthetic. At her hat shop, Chanel got a lucky break when Gabrielle ...

One scene recalls the hat-making business that launched ... complex influence of her subject, the French designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel changed the way that women dress by challenging fashion conventions in the early 20th century. Her desire for womenswear to be comfortable rather than restrictive was ...

author of “Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life”, in a phone interview with CNN. “An unique aspect of Chanel as a designer is that her clothes were so radical in their innovations at the ...