Chanel

A biographical short about French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

In December 1953, Coco Chanel began her incredible return to center stage. The designer reopens her Haute Couture house after fifteen years of absence. The collection is welcomed by the French press with an icy silence. Only the American media supports the looks that define the rebirth of Chanel's style.

51 films to date, a unique body of work whose common thread is the search for love: this is the cinema of Claude Lelouch. As a Jewish child hunted during the war, the filmmaker offers his very personal vision of betrayal, scoundrels, good people, travel, parent-child relationships, and the ghosts of his deceased friends whom he will always love.

In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.

In 1913, designer Coco Chanel opens her first boutique in the French city of Deauville.

“Reincarnation” is the new short film created and directed by Karl Lagerfeld to accompany the CHANEL Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d'art collection shown on December 2nd, 2014 in Salzburg. This new short film was the perfect opportunity for Karl Lagerfeld to develop an artistic collaboration with Pharrell Williams, a close friend of the House and personal friend of the designer. In fact, the artist composed and wrote the lyrics to "CC The World," the original soundtrack for Reincarnation, and he also plays one of the lead roles and will be, along with Cara Delevingne, the face of the upcoming campaign of the Paris-Salzburg 2014/15 Métiers d'art collection.

For this three-and-a-half minute short, Diop conjures up some of the same romance as a pastel-haired Sane navigates life in Tokyo dressed head-to-toe in Chanel`s unmistakable tweeds. "I imagined a sort of travel journal of Mama`s trip to Tokyo," says Diop. "Somewhere between a documentary and a hallucinated trip, her silhouette in the streets, the way she sees the city and the way the urbanites there see her."

From there all I can hear is the batting of your eyelashes is an installation (photography, text and video) curated by Chanel, and made exclusively for Julien Levy’s exhibition at Chanel Nexus Hall.

Rencontre(s) is an immersive, interactive and multisensory experience that invites you to live the legendary moment during which Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel and perfumer Ernest Beaux meet to choose the perfume that would become Chanel N°5 in 1921. Actress Marion Cotillard lent her voice to interpret Gabrielle Chanel in this virtual reality project.