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 ...

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

It’s a reminder of the designer’s celebrated decade-long ... the first in the UK dedicated to the French couturière Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, charts the development of her style and ...

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 ...

and Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, the trailblazing designer known for her chic bobbed hair and ever-present pearls. And as for the hardships they endured — or moral compromises they made — on ...

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 ...

“The New Look,” debuting Wednesday on Apple TV+, examines Christian Dior’s connection to the French Resistance and Coco ... in Chanel’s post-Edwardian, uncorseted designs — or an ...