A recent movie on the life of Coco Chanel aired in the US on television last weekend.
Daily Variety glibly rated it a 'No. 5' on a scale of 1-10. Said to be 'less haute couture than high melodrama', this television biopic precedes another about Coco Chanel that is in the works at Warner Bros. Why so much interest in Coco Chanel (besides some reviewers' interest in seeing Shirley MacLaine play the aging designer)?
Well why not?
This is the woman who created the 'little black dress', the iconic Chanel suit and costume jewelry! On the heels of New York's Fashion Week, with both Victoria Posh Spice Girl Beckham and Justin nSync Timberlake of all people claiming to be fashion designers, I like the idea of a designer actually creating a style as opposed to copying one. Bring on the biopics about her!
And during these days of hiatus, when feeling particularly deprived after receiving Bergdoff Goodman's offer of a $100 gift card with a purchase from the fall shoe collection, do what I do and fondly recall that Coco once said, "Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
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