Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

PARIS — A new book alleges that iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel was an anti-Semite and a Nazi spy. “Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret Wars,” by American historian Hal Vaughan, ...

Iconic fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) wanted to both hide her life story and to share it, a contradiction that confounded previous potential biographers. In this well-researched ...

Rhonda Garelick never intended to write Coco Chanel’s biography. The original idea was more specific: a book about Chanel’s work as a stage costumer. But once Garelick started exploring her initial ...

In 30 words or less, tell us what is great about a book you are reading at the moment. The best critique will be printed in the January issue of The Weekly and the writer will win The AWW Cooking ...

PARIS (AP) -- Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a ...