Today marks 132 years after the pioneering fashion designer and perfume creator Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born. Chanel is probably most famous for her modernist and liberating fashion design legacy ...

A new book explains the mysterious origins of Chanel No. 5, which helped make Coco Chanel a household name. Alamy; Corbis via Getty Images Coco Chanel stood in a laboratory in France, sniffing a ...

Coco Mademoiselle has long been a crowd favourite within Chanel’s tight edit of perfumes, and that is no small achievement since most of the brand’s fragrances have secured their place within the ...

It's a warm floral scent that costs £109 for a 50ml bottle It's sweeter and muskier than Chanel No. 5, the brand's most recognisable fragrance (that your mum or grandma might love). As a beauty editor ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

Known for her nontraditional approach to design, Chanel set trends using unconventional fabrics, colors and textures; many of which took root in menswear. Today, she is often credited as the mother of ...

Jazzria Harris is a freelance fashion and beauty journalist with over 8 years experience working in the industry. At just 4ft 11, she’s an expert in petite dressing and previously wrote the column ...