Coco Chanel's secret life: Biography & trivia

Away from the atelier, Coco Chanel surrounded herself with a heady group of avant-garde artists and powerful English aristocrats.

How Global Icon Coco Chanel Reinvented Women's Fashion

In the fourth instalment of BoF’s fashion history series, we meet the creator of the ‘little black dress,’ who took her cues from a country in mourning. Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, the designer doyenne who founded fashion’s most famous house, used her lovers’ money to establish herself and rewrote the rulebook with her mannish collections.

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971)

Coco Chanel's affair with German officer, Hans Gunther, Baron von Dincklage, nearly ruined her business after she was found guilty of treason.

How Coco Chanel used the men in her life to secure her place in Paris high society

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel reinvented what women wore, smelled like and accessorized withbut she also reinvented herself along the way.

Episode 98: Coco Chanel

Living with Chanel, an extract from Caroline Young's New Book on how places, travel, people and her early life in a convent shapes Chanel's revolutionary fashion ideas.

The Secret Life of Coco Chanel

Articles by Justine Picardie's Profile, The New York Times, Daily Mail, MSN New Zealand Journalist

Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971) was born out of wedlock in the French town of Saumur in the Loire Valley on 19 August 1883 to Albert Chanel, an itinerant

Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel

Coco Chanel

In 1931, studio mogul Sam Goldwyn believed the famed Parisian couturier could make his movies—and his stars—more glamorous, and invited the designer to come to Hollywood. What resulted was an object lesson in the difference between costumes and couture.

Coco Chanel's Little-Known Flirtation with Golden-Age Hollywood

From perfume to suits and little black dresses, Coco Chanel, known as Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is an iconic designer. In 1910, Ms. Chanel opened up her first store on Paris’s Rue Cambon. She started…

Coco Chanel and Success. From rags to riches fashion designer…, by Lylah Dixon, Gladwellian Success Scholarly Magazine

From a poorhouse in Saumur, to a Catholic orphanage in the Dordogne to a nightclub stage in Moulins, Coco Chanel’s life did not truly take off until she moved to the fashion capital of Paris. Here…

Coco Chanel, The Life and Times of an Icon - France Today

Mademoiselle Coco Chanel built one of the most iconic brands in the world—and a LBD with a spritz of Chanel No. 5 is still considered fashion <em>du jour</em>.

15 Things You Didn't Know About Coco Chanel

Audrey Tautou plays Coco Chanel in a movie about the designer's beginnings. She tells Chris Sullivan of her fascination with the icon

Audrey Tautou - Style with substance, The Independent

Vogue charts Coco Chanel's life in pictures. From her earliest days as a young milliner to her ascent into fashion royalty and high society, chart Coco Chanel's enduring style through the years.

The Legacy Of Coco Chanel: A Life In Pictures

The Fascinating Story of Coco Chanel – l'Étoile de Saint Honoré