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Coco Chanel, Jane Austen and Anita Brookner: On Flying Solo And Free

Madison Smartt Bell | Posted 12.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Coco Before Chanel, Fashion Industry, Jane Austen, France, Books, Chanel, Movies, Paris, Marriage, CoCo Chanel, Style, Audrey Tatou, Coco Avant Chanel, Anita Brookner, Fashion, Books News
Madison Smartt Bell

The story behind "Coco Avant Chanel"'s near plotlessness is Coco's steely determination to become what she must be -- even though she doesn't know what that is.

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Some Great New Books!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 12.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cole Porter, English Country Houses, Random House, Harvard, Yale, CoCo Chanel, Sergei Diaghilev, Newport, Country-Life, Dunbarton Oaks, Cecil Beaton, Santa Barbra, Janet Gaynor, Boston, Princton, Victorian Estates, Rockrfellers, Abstraction, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Les Ballets Russes, Sir Edwin Lutyens, New York, Beatrice Farrand, Edith Wharton, Homosexuality, Italien Villas, Gertrude Jeckyll, Pablo Picasso, Bliss, Carl Van Vechten, A'liea Walker, Susanne Tucker, Adrian, Books News
Michael Henry Adams

If one is known to be a lover of fine books, one of the best times of the year is quite near. Thanks to this short list of selections from Random House's Monacelli Press, we can happily enjoy some of life's finer pleasures.

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Style Books To Give For The Holidays

Wall Street Journal | CHRISTINA BINKLEY | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Mrs. O, Michelle Obama, Project Runway, Fashion, Teen Vogue, CoCo Chanel, Mireille Guiliano, Holidays, Nina Garcia, Gift Books, Christmas, Rules for My Unborn Son, Chanel, Holiday Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Hanukkah, Style, Karen Karbo, The Style Strategy, Fashion Advice, Gospel According to Coco Chanel, Books, Style Books, Whowhatwear, Books News

Style books are a motley crew. Many offer stale fashion advice or strange recipes for make-your-own-beauty-products; one could fill an unfortunate lib...

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Why Eco-Fashion Matters

Jasmin Malik Chua | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Textiles, CoCo Chanel, Fashion Industry, Eco Fashion, Cotton, Ecotextiles, Green News
Jasmin Malik Chua

Fashion isn't something that exists in dresses only, as the late great Coco Chanel once said. It has to do with ideas, the way we live, and how we relate to the world around us.

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Ten Tremendous Women Who Never Married

Samara O'Shea | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Florence Nightingale, Louisa May Alcott, Anne Boleyn, Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Queen Elizabeth the First, Jane Austen, Joan of Arc, Clara Barton, Gloria Steinem, Oprah, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Cassatt, 19th Amendment, Henry VIII, David Bale, Marriage, Women, Christian Bale, Living News
Samara O'Shea

The following women serve as a sweet reminder that you don't need anyone but yourself to live an incredible life and have people remember you long after you're gone.

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J'Die: Cristalle Eu Verte by Chanel

Zandile Blay | Posted 10.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Paris, CoCo Chanel, Magnolia, Chanel No. 5, Chanel, Cristalle Eu Verte, Style News
Zandile Blay

For you to fully understand why Cristalle Eu Verte is simply beyond only requires one word: Chanel. When it comes to fragrance, the track record of this luxury house is unparalleled.

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Lessons From Coco Chanel, a Self-Made Woman

Rachael Chong | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Entrepreneurship, Gender Equality, Social Entrepreneurship, Glass Ceiling, Clinton Global Initiative, Women Entrepreneurs, Women and Girls, Business News
Rachael Chong

A woman ahead of her time, Coco Chanel was a true entrepreneur, who brought women freedom through fashion.

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Coco Before Chanel's Audrey Tautou Talks Fashion, Fury, And Smoking

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.18.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Lesley M. M. Blume, Audrey Tautou, Coco Before Chanel, Fashion, CoCo Chanel, Style, Chanel, Coco Avant Chanel, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

I talked with Tautou about the rage and desire that propelled Coco Chanel to the pinnacle of the fashion world, and how long it took the actress to perfect that famous cigarette dangle.

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The Runways of Yesterday: 9 Designers Worth Revisiting

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Style News, Madeleine Vionnet, CoCo Chanel, James Galanos, Marc Jacobs, Salvador Dali, Jean Harlow, Derek Lam, Oleg Cassini, Bob Mackie, Mary McFadden, Jackie Kennedy, Jason Wu, Chanel, Fashion Week, Lilly Dache, Calvin Klein, Marlene Dietrich, Donna Karen, Jean Cocteau, Style, Carmen Miranda, Thakoon, Lesley M. M. Blume, Josephine Baker, Paul Poiret, Greta Garbo, Elsa Schiaparelli, Fashion, Raco Rabanne, Nancy Reagan, New York Fashion Week, Diane Von Furstenberg, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

Fashion often looks to the past for inspiration. This fall, history is in great evidence: surrealist flourishes from the 1940s abound; shoulder pads and neons from 1980s saturate clothing lines at all levels.

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Why Shouldn't We Wear White After Labor Day?

TIME | Laura Fitzpatrick | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: White After Labor Day, CoCo Chanel, White After Labor Day Rule, Style News

Instead, other historians speculate, the origin of the no-white-after Labor Day rule may be symbolic. In the early 20th century, white was the uniform...

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Coco Chanel: A New Book & Film Offer Timely Lessons for Women

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.08.2009 | Style

Read More: CoCo Chanel, Coco Before Chanel, Audrey Tatou, Karen Carbo, Gospel According to Chanel, Anne Fontaine, Style News
Jesse Kornbluth

No writer has a better understanding of what it means to be Chanel and what it means to be a woman who admires Chanel than Karen Karbo, author of the short and addictive The Gospel According to Coco Chanel.

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Cuckoo For Coco: How To Dress Like The Chanel Couturier

Refinery 29 | Roxanne Fequiere | Posted 09.28.2009 | Style

Read More: Chanel Style, Dress Like Coco Chanel, Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Coco Chanel Style, Coco Avant Chanel, Style News

We've been waiting with bated breath (and envying our neighbors across the Atlantic who have already seen the film) for the September release of "Coco...

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Lessons in Fashion and the Female Brain

Christina Patterson | Posted 09.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Coc Avant Chanel, Fashion, CoCo Chanel, Anna Wintour, The September Issue, Vogues, Style News
Christina Patterson

Coco Chanel and Anna Wintour both managed to become living incarnations of that 20th-century obsession (that we now take entirely for granted), the brand. The brand is king. And queen. And God.

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Watch The "Coco Before Chanel" Trailer (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Video, Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Coco Avant Chanel, Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, Fashion, Chanel, Benoit Poelvoorde, Style News

Coco Chanel is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in the history of fashion. She single-handedly founded a fashion mecca, and now, her s...

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"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" Closes Cannes

Reuters | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment

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A lavish portrayal of a brief affair between Russian composer Igor Stravinsky and fashion pioneer Coco Chanel in the early 1920s brings the curtain do...

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Audrey Tautou Dishes On Playing Coco Chanel

Reuters | Posted 05.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Audrey Tautou, Fashion, CoCo Chanel, Coco Avant Chanel, Style News

"Coco Chanel's personality was absolutely extraordinary but beyond her genius and talent she has everything that the heroine of any great novel has," ...

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Fashion Victim

Gioia Diliberto | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Fashion, Lost Luggage, Coco Chanel Book, CoCo Chanel, Style News
Gioia Diliberto

All that separated me from my Vera Wang dress and Jimmy Choo heels, my vintage handbag and red pashmina, was the low metal platform where travelers place their luggage.

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A New Book Explores The Softer Side of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Zandile Blay | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Photography, Douglas Kirkland, CoCo Chanel, Chanel, Interview, Paris, Gabrielle Chanel, Style News
Zandile Blay

Douglas Kirkland: "Coco Chanel's story is a story of someone who came from zero, from nothing. She was living on the lowest level, but she had determination."

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Shirley MacLaine On Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, And Her Own "Sloppy" Style

Los Angeles Times | Monica Corcoran | Posted 10.11.2008 | Style

Read More: Paris, Karl Lagerfeld, Shirley MacLaine, CoCo Chanel, Fashion, Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine Coco Chanel, Coco Chanel Movie, Style News

Shirley MacLaine stars in "Coco Chanel," which airs this Saturday on Lifetime. On what interested her about Coco Chanel: Her contradictions. Her con...

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10 Time-Hallowed, Recession-Proof Tips For Beautification

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Style, Cheap Beauty Tips, Recession Beauty Tips, Holly Golightly, Nan Kemper, CoCo Chanel, Economy, Diana Vreeland, Estee Lauder, Jackie O, Beauty Industry, Jackie Kennedy, Recession, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Luxury, Manolo Blahnik, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Fashion, Chanel No. 5, Shoes, Beauty, Living News
Lesley M. M. Blume

For many women, the cost of beautification has grown staggering. Each consecutive year ushers in a series of must-do rituals; every month the beauty ...

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Artist Porn: 10 Things That Turn Me On

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 06.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Mad Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex and the City Movie, Voss Design, Jaguar XKE, Tom Ford for Men, 15 Central Park West, Tom Ford for Gucci Vagina, The Tudors, Artist Porn, The Inner Life, Prada’s Trembled Blossoms Video, Marc Jacobs, Robert Stern, Target, Michael Graves, Prada, Iphone, Logen's Run, CoCo Chanel, Schiaparelli, Kimberly Brooks, Trembled Blossoms, Six Feet Under, Living News
Kimberly Brooks

Writing a weekly column about artists that turn me on omits a gigantic portion of what turns me on as an artist. The truth is that more artists don't...

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