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Coco Chanel

[French Designer, 1883-1971]

• Also known as:  Gabrielle Chanel
• Browse all:  French artists  /  designers  /  women artists
 


 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Coco Chanel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Information about a 2005 Chanel exhibition, with photographs of the designer and her works

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
Essay on the artist along with 10 dresses designed by Coco Chanel

California Museum of Photography at U.C. Riverside
Coco Chanel, photographed by Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
3 items displayed online

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)  
Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel, 1923, oil painting by Marie Laurencin

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York
Evening dress and coat, white sequins and silk, spring 1970

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York
Evening chemise, pink silk crepe chiffon, ca.1925

Coco Chanel at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Coco Chanel, 1964, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson

 
Professional Tools:
Artprice  
Web Sites About the Artist:
Designers' Block (Blog)
Several photographs by Karl Lagerfeld of Coco Chanel's apartment in Paris

Fashion Victims (Blog)
Some photographs of Coco Chenal by Horst P. Horst

 
Other Web Sites:
Chanel Corporate Home Page

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Coco Chanel
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Artnet Magazine
Coco Chanel in her salon, watercolor by Cecil Beaton

Time Magazine

Travel and Leisure Magazine
Article on Chanel's favorite haunts in Paris

 
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Coco Chanel parle de l'elegance. Interview with Coco Chanel (in French). Search for "Coco Chanel" to see a variety of other videos related to her or House of Chanel.

  
 
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