“Well, I’m obviously a great fan of the little black dress,” quipped Tristram Hunt, director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, when asked about the appeal of “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto ...

Coco Chanel did not design clothes merely to make the people wearing them look good. At least as the bio-drama “Coco Before Chanel” has it, the French fashion icon was striking significant social ...

We don’t see Coco Chanel in an actual classroom in Coco Before Chanel, the meticulous, somber new biopic of the fashion designer before she became an icon. But throughout writer-director Anne Fontaine ...

1. Her first passion wasn’t fashion (and neither was her second). Chanel longed to be a professional singer and even frequented cabarets in France as a teen. She attempted a few numbers, but couldn’t ...

With displays ranging from tweed suits to an array of little black dresses, a new London exhibition looks at the work of one of fashion's most famous names - French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

A major retrospective exhibition opens in London this weekend into “Coco” Chanel, exploring her 60-year career that transformed women’s wardrobes, and with new revelations about her troubled wartime.

Previously unseen documents to go on display at V&A alongside evidence of her collusion with Nazis A major retrospective of Coco Chanel has unearthed evidence that the fashion designer was a ...

Coco Chanel changed womens fashion by making it simple, comfortable, and elegant. Her famous quote reminds us that beauty ...

As head designer and creative director Karl Lagerfeld took his bow at the end of the Chanel show last month in Paris, he paid homage to the legacy of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, who opened her first ...