French drama based on the love affair between fashion designer Coco Chanel & Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. When the wealthy & successful Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) is introduced to avant-garde impresario Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) in 1920s Paris, she is still smitten with the rich & handsome Boy Capel (Anatole Taubman), & is devastated when Boy is killed in a car accident. The attraction between Coco & Stravinsky is immediate, however, despite Coco's recent bereavement & the fact that Stravinsky is accompanied in his exile to France by his terminally-ill wife Katarina (Yelena Morozova) & four children. As the two embark on a passionate affair, a subtle power play ensues between the traditionally-minded Katarina & the ultra-modern Coco. ...

French drama based on the love affair between fashion designer Coco Chanel & Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. When the wealthy & successful Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) is introduced to avant-garde impresario Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) in 1920s Paris, she is still smitten with the rich & handsome Boy Capel (Anatole Taubman), & is devastated when Boy is killed in a car accident. The attraction between Coco & Stravinsky is immediate, however, despite Coco's recent bereavement & the fact that Stravinsky is accompanied in his exile to France by his terminally-ill wife Katarina (Yelena Morozova) & four children. As the two embark on a passionate affair, a subtle power play ensues between the traditionally-minded Katarina & the ultra-modern Coco. ...

Lavish biopic recounting the life & work of legendary French fashion designer Coco Chanel, from her humble beginnings in an Auvergne orphanage in the late 1800s after being abandoned by her pedlar father. Audrey Tatou stars in the title role as Gabrielle ' Coco' Chanel, whose inspiration & determination eventually took her to the most elevated position in the male-dominated fashion industry. ...

The much anticipated & beautifully illustrated Sunday Times Bestselling Biography Coco Chanel: The Legend & the Life was first released to great critical acclaim in 2010. Now the paperback edition of Justine Picardie's biography of the French fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel has arrived. ...

To call Coco Chanel a fashion designer hardly captures her social & cultural significance. An iconoclastic entrepreneur, she rebelled against & manipulated gender expectations of her time. This title examines the world Chanel both reflected & shaped, setting her life & work in a broad context of women's history in France & America. ...

In 1962, world-class photographer Douglas Kirkland spent three weeks with the most important fashion icon of all time, Coco Chanel. Over the course of this stay, Kirkland photographed Coco with her friends, on the runway, & in the privacy of her homes. This title features these photographs. ...