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...She plays Coco Chanel, whose fall from grace as a result of her well-documented collaboration with the Nazis runs in parallel with Dior’s rise....
...The Couture O’Clock automaton, featuring a little Coco Chanel marionette that springs to life at the touch of a button, is an example of how fun can be had with haute horlogerie....
...In the 1950s, Coco Chanel asked her to model a collection at a show – but Gunning, who was only comfortable being photographed, wouldn’t....
...A rare surviving piece from Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s only high jewellery collection will go on display in London this month in an exhibition dedicated to the French fashion designer....
...In Apple TV+ series The New Look, Christian Dior is flatteringly depicted by Ben Mendelsohn, while Juliette Binoche plays Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, a designer whose self-image became her key selling point...
...Coco Chanel was described by Roland Barthes in 1967 as a “new classical author” who he argued wrote with fabric, shape and colour....
...Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E....
...In Gstaad, Chanel has opened a pop-up that will feature everything from bags, watches and jewellery to the Coco Neige line....
...If a darker shade still sounds scary, pair a hydrating lipstick – such as Chanel Rouge Coco Bloom (£37) – with a clear or matching pencil (Chanel Le Crayon Lèvres 34, £24) for understated definition....
...This features heavily sanitised stories about the likes of Coco Chanel (heavy on the entrepreneurship and the stylish outfits, light on the Nazism and the cocaine) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (much is made...
...Its shiny crystals became a favourite of designers such as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in the 1920s....
...Coco Chanel was said to have owned anything from 21 to 32 Chinese Coromandel screens in her lifetime. She moved them from home to home, using them as decoration as well as inspiration....
...The 113-year-old Parisian company founded by designer Coco Chanel is owned by the Wertheimer family, and chief executive Leena Nair has ruled out an initial public offering, insisting the company will remain...
...Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier....
...Chanel is owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, whose grandfather Pierre Wertheimer was an early business partner of founder Coco Chanel....
...Chocolate brand Coco sells “haggis spiced” dark chocolate with notes of nutmeg, and Jorum Studio makes unconventional, Celtic-inspired fragrances from its studio in Edinburgh: scents include Gorseland and...
...After the Red Army invaded, Iliazd settled in Paris, working on artists’ books with Picasso and others, and textile design with Coco Chanel....
...“Fantasy lies in the precision of things,” he once opined, and there’s plenty that would have excited the friends who joined him here: a gilt antlered mirror from Coco Chanel; a mounted narwhal’s tusk that...
...Fia wears Chanel Fine Jewellery gold Coco Crush earrings, £3,000, gold and diamond Bouton de Camélie necklace, £5,400, gold Coco Crush small ring, £2,200, and gold and diamond Bouton de Camélia ring, £11,000...
...It was an odd twist on a theme inspired by the lion bronzes and coromandel screens painted with exotic birds with which Coco Chanel furnished her Rue Cambon apartment, not least because of circuses’ problematic...
...Why The house features majolica ceramic tiles designed by Coco Chanel, commissioned by its postwar owner....
...Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel described him as a “metallurgist de la mode.”...
...The beauty staples I’m never without are red lipstick – Tom Ford’s Scarlet Shock – over which I put Chanel Rouge Coco lip gloss....
...Coco Chanel launched her first perfume back in 1921....
...Couturiers began their long love affair with the fabric early in the 20th century — Coco Chanel fell in love with a Scottish Duke in the 1920s; her 1922 silk cape in Gordon tartan is included in the Dundee...
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