“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 ...

PARIS — Can a designer runway show — or, indeed, a single designer — change the way that women dress? That is a deceptively complex question. (Isn’t a designer’s job to help us solve the problem of ...

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 ...

Coco Chanel received the Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion in 1957. When Chanel visited Texas, Stanley Marcus hosted a Western party and bovine fashion show in her ...

Apple TV+ "The New Look" shines a light on Coco Chanel's murky history as a Nazi informant and spy. The fashion designer was recruited to be a part of a failed Nazi operation named 'Modelhut' in 1943.

In a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Chanel has recreated the famed spiral staircase that its founder, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, had in her Paris atelier. That staircase ...

Coco Chanel invented a fashion vocabulary — camellias, the black dress, the double-C logo, the elongated octagon shape of the Chanel No. 5 perfume stopper — and she surrounded herself with these ...

The French fashion house made custom clothes and jewels for the starlets well before the Woody Allen controversy consumed Cannes. By Carol McColgin Contributing Editor Stewart dazzles in off-white ...