From runway drama to personal reinvention, fashion movies offer a captivating mix of storytelling and style.From iconic ...

There is a wonderfully subtle (if historically inaccurate) scene in the new biopic Coco Before Chanel in which the 20-something, not-yet-a-fashion-doyenne is asked by her lover "Boy" Capel to attend a ...

Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel gives us Belle Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif and her sister being unceremoniously dumped at an orphanage, and ending around ...

Haute couture, if successful, challenges the mind and reinvents the figure. It is eventually resolved into clothing that’s actually wearable, but runway fashion has more to offer than that. In Anne ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...