CHANEL NEWS

Private adj 1. Not open to the public. Reserved to a few people.

Mademoiselle noun 1. A French civil title or form of address given to a girl or to a non-married woman. 2. Gabrielle Chanel was called Mademoiselle Chanel.

Mademoiselle Privé 1. Sign installed by Gabrielle Chanel on the door of her atelier, 31 rue Cambon. It is in this very same studio, on the 3rd floor of the building, that Karl Lagerfeld creates, since 1983, his collections for Maison Chanel. 2. Name of the exhibition being held in London this autumn, at the Saatchi Gallery.

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Penélope Cruz wore a dress from the Fall-Winter 2015/16 Ready-to-Wear collection to the Press Conference of her new cinema project.

This book celebrates the longstanding friendship between Gabrielle Chanel and the photographer Willy Rizzo (1928-2013), one of Mademoiselle’s closest confidants, from the post-war Paris period in which they met until her final days.

The book’s 180 photographs show Coco Chanel at work in her studio Rue Cambon, as well as Rue François Ier and Place du Palais Bourbon. Rizzo had the talent of catching the instant when a piece of fabric sculpted on a woman body becomes a clothing.

French texts coordinated by Fabrice Gaignault, with English translations by Jane Lizop, Editions Minerve.
A serie of exhibitions around the world will coincide with the book’s launch (São Paulo, October 3; Paris, October 15; Los Angeles, October 10; Geneva, November 5).