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Chanel is a French luxury fashion house founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in Paris in 1910. The company is privately owned by the Wertheimer family and headquartered in Paris.

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News & Analysis

Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season

As Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ makes clear, the online video stakes are high — and fashion brands have work to do.

News & Analysis

Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season

As Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ makes clear, the online video stakes are high — and fashion brands have work to do.


Fashion Week

Op-Ed | The Rise of the Fashion Hipster

Catering to the fashion hipster — whose purchases are driven by irony, camp and insider humour — risks making promising brands the flavour of the day, argues Eugene Rabkin.

Fashion Week

Op-Ed | The Rise of the Fashion Hipster

Catering to the fashion hipster — whose purchases are driven by irony, camp and insider humour — risks making promising brands the flavour of the day, argues Eugene Rabkin.


News & Analysis

Pat and Anna Cleveland on the Family Business

The mother-daughter duo reflect on the state of fashion and how modelling has changed.

News & Analysis

Pat and Anna Cleveland on the Family Business

The mother-daughter duo reflect on the state of fashion and how modelling has changed.


News & Analysis

Italy's Fashion Industry Signs Deal to Build Ties with Iran

Italy has become the first European country to take steps to help its fashion industry build a stronger presence in Iran following the lifting of Western sanctions.

News & Analysis

Italy's Fashion Industry Signs Deal to Build Ties with Iran

Italy has become the first European country to take steps to help its fashion industry build a stronger presence in Iran following the lifting of Western sanctions.


News & Analysis

Why Would Yves Saint Laurent Erase the Hedi Slimane Era?

Designer tenures seem shorter and shorter, but Yves Saint Laurent's decision to wipe its Instagram account of Hedi Slimane's time at the house is curious on several levels.

News & Analysis

Why Would Yves Saint Laurent Erase the Hedi Slimane Era?

Designer tenures seem shorter and shorter, but Yves Saint Laurent's decision to wipe its Instagram account of Hedi Slimane's time at the house is curious on several levels.


Luxury

Beyond the ‘It’ Bag

As the market for handbags becomes more crowded and competitive, some luxury brands are taking a more balanced, diversified approach to product categories.

Luxury

Beyond the ‘It’ Bag

As the market for handbags becomes more crowded and competitive, some luxury brands are taking a more balanced, diversified approach to product categories.


China

China's Grey Luxury Market Threatened by New Tax Regime

China is raising fees on packages ordered from abroad and cracking down on smugglers who carry in suitcases full of luxury goods, in a concerted effort to encourage shopping at home and squeeze a grey market that shoppers use to avoid tax.

China

China's Grey Luxury Market Threatened by New Tax Regime

China is raising fees on packages ordered from abroad and cracking down on smugglers who carry in suitcases full of luxury goods, in a concerted effort to encourage shopping at home and squeeze a grey market that shoppers use to avoid tax.


News & Analysis

Behind Prada’s Christophe Chemin Collaboration

How a dialogue between Miuccia Prada and Christophe Chemin turned his artwork into the in-the-know seasonal signifier of Prada’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collections.

News & Analysis

Behind Prada’s Christophe Chemin Collaboration

How a dialogue between Miuccia Prada and Christophe Chemin turned his artwork into the in-the-know seasonal signifier of Prada’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collections.


News & Analysis

Why Fashion Is a Property Developer’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

As Dover Street Market opens in its new Haymarket location, adjacent to the Crown Estate’s new St. James’ Market project, BoF examines how real estate developers work with brands, retailers and other fashion entities to recast neighbourhoods.

News & Analysis

Why Fashion Is a Property Developer’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

As Dover Street Market opens in its new Haymarket location, adjacent to the Crown Estate’s new St. James’ Market project, BoF examines how real estate developers work with brands, retailers and other fashion entities to recast neighbourhoods.


Marketing

Distress in the $80 Billion Diamond Market

Plunging diamond prices are causing hardship for people throughout the global supply chain from big mining operators in Africa, Russia and Canada to small-scale cutters and traders across Europe and Asia.

Marketing

Distress in the $80 Billion Diamond Market

Plunging diamond prices are causing hardship for people throughout the global supply chain from big mining operators in Africa, Russia and Canada to small-scale cutters and traders across Europe and Asia.