Despite the fact that Karl Lagerfeld didn’t have a show lined up for New York Fashion Week, celebrities and designers alike got their Chanel fix with the New York premiere of the biopic Coco Avant ...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a ...

Spectacle, a love triangle, heritage settings, bravura acting, witty dialogue, a bittersweet finale: There's something for everyone in Anne Fontaine's "Coco Before Chanel." By Bernard Besserglik, The ...

Before the worship were whispers among the elite of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's early years. What is that wiry, wily young woman wearing? And why? "Coco Before Chanel," a biopic that opened recently in ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Coco Chanel, creator of the little black dress and byword for Parisian chic, joins a growing roster of French cultural figures to be celebrated on screen with two films of her life ...

A little girl from central France, who is placed in an orphanage with her sister and waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come and collect them. A weak-voiced café singer, who faces an ...