French fashion designer and businesswoman Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) once famously declared, "I don't do fashion. I am fashion." The founder of the iconic Chanel brand, who died on Jan ...

A new television drama has reopened the debate over Coco Chanel's connection to the Nazis. Set in occupied France, "The New Look" tells the story of Chanel and rival fashion designer Christian ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “An interior,” Coco Chanel once said, “is the natural projection of the soul.” Given her obsession with coromandel screens ...

Scott Fitzgerald finished a draft of his third novel, “The Great Gatsby,” in a rental home in Saint-Raphaël. By the time Gabrielle Chanel arrived in 1928 — the Parisian couturier, then 45 and known as ...

In Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s world, chance wasn’t just luck—it was destiny. “Chance is a way of being,” she once said. “It is no coincidence; it must be created, honed, sought out.