Tweed jackets, the little black dress, menswear as womenswear: Coco Chanel is responsible for ... and improving dresses on endless streams of mannequins. … She does it all with her own fingers ...

By Laurie Brookins Freelance Contributor Right around the time Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was visiting Hollywood ... Leguéreau prefers to design using a mannequin’s torso, so he can ensure ...

In 1931, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was 47 years old and ... salon equipped with a sewing machine and dress mannequins for Chanel to use, in the hope that she would be making a long ...

“The New Look,” debuting Wednesday on Apple TV+, examines Christian Dior’s connection to the French Resistance and Coco Chanel’s role ... featured miniature mannequins wearing bespoke ...

An affair with the 2nd Duke of Westminster introduced Coco Chanel to fly-fishing ... is today engaged in passing & improving dresses on endless streams of mannequins. Altogether 200 models [outfits] ...

but Coco Chanel perhaps summed her up best when she christened her ”The Cowboy” back in the early `60s. At that time, Rogers was a Paris-based Chanel mannequin, sometime actress and full-time ...

In a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Chanel has recreated the famed spiral staircase that its founder, Gabrielle ‘Coco ... milling about on mannequins below.

A blank slate but in human dimensions. From luxury houses to fashion schools, retailers to museums, they are the mannequin of choice. Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Celine, Rabanne, Prada ...

When Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel died in her Ritz hotel suite on 10 January 1971, the world mourned the loss of one of its greatest fashion designers. While she remains one of the most formative ...

As an orphan who stepped out of poverty to create a life of absolute luxury Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel always lived outside the rules, from her powerhouse business nous to her resolutely unmarried status ...

Coco Chanel is actually named Gabrielle Chanel ... Regular clients of the House have their own wooden mannequins in their exact measurements. 8. It takes hundreds of hours to create a dress ...