Chanel was a fashion revolutionary. Her simple, comfortable designs emphasized not the man-admiring feminine adornment but the woman who wore the clothes. Inspired by masculine tailoring, nuns’ habits ...

Dressed in a floral bustier frock from Chanel’s latest couture collection, Audrey Tautou cut a Thumbelina figure at the premiere of Anne Fontaine’s “Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)” — in which ...

A little girl from central France, who is placed in an orphanage with her sister and waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come and collect them. A weak-voiced café singer, who faces an ...

Belgian actress Marie Gillain, who co-stars with Audrey Tautou in Coco Before Chanel, became known while a teenager, when she played opposite Gerard Depardieu in My Father, the Hero. She has had a ...

Please don’t stop the music: Anne Fontaine isn’t done with it just yet. Following “Boléro” — world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam — the noted director is developing another ...

with a sequence of secuirty-camera videos showing holdups in progress, and ends it by showing himself, like some vigilante version of the environmental artist Christo, stringing great lengths of ...