An affair with the 2nd Duke of Westminster introduced Coco Chanel to fly-fishing, Winston Churchill and the tweed clothing that shaped some of her most enduring designs, reveals Justine Picardie.
Blockbuster to include origin story of famous tweed suit and not gloss over controversial wartime past
V&A Chanel exhibition to feature 200 looks across seven decades
Country Life 13 September 2023 looks at the sex lives of plants, hedgehogs, and Coco Chanel's love of the English countryside.
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i, write, riot: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
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The Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto exhibition at the V&A in London. Chanel history and designs on display. More from my London visit.
Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto exhibition - une femme d'un
After the Romanovs: Helen Rappaport: 9781922585349: : Books
What a woman! Nothing stopped the dynamic Coco Chanel from becoming the most stylish, sophisticated fashion icon of the 20th century. History has proven her right as Coco escaped a life of poverty and hardship to propel herself into a powerful fashion designer of her own making. Gabrielle Chanel was born illegitimate in Saumur, France…
Coco Chanel Houses with History
Everybody knows the words fashion and Coco Chanel go hand-in-hand. Today we take a brief gander in the icons' life and the acceleration of her name sake brand. Early life: Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in 1883 to Eugénie Jeanne Devolle Chanel, known as Jeanne, a laundrywoman in the charity hospital run by the Sisters of…
Ones to know, Coco Chanel
Janet Flanner’s 1931 Profile of Coco Chanel. “The key to her peculiar genius and its sartorial consequences may lie in the fact that Chanel, most Parisian and expensive couturier of her epoch, was born poor and in the country.”
Coco Chanel's Revolutionary Style