Coco Chanel

The supermodel starts singing at 5:07. Just FYI.

Fashion films are getting longer and more elaborate.

Despite the fact that her feathers and fur are purely ornamental, Carine Roitfeld serves as many fashion folk's spirit animal. Enigmatic, powerful, and usually swathed in Alaïa, the French fashion legend has long been everyone's ultimate everything. Now Roitfeld shows you the inner scenes and seams of her life through a new documentary. Called Mademoiselle C, the film, which opens on September 11 in major cities across the US, shadows the smoky-eyed icon through two big events: the launch of her new magazine, CR Fashion Book, and the birth of her first granddaughter, Romy Nicole. (Also: she does a full split on camera. Take that, Betsey Johnson!) I met Roitfeld across the street from Bloomingdales to discuss her latest project, and yes, I was shaking.

Oscar de la Renta is quickly becoming one of the designers whose interviews we're most excited to read. They're dishy, honest, and he always talks about the really interesting famous people he happens to be friends with. The latest, with Linda Fargo for Gotham magazine, does not disappoint.

It's Bastille Day, the French national holiday fêting that one time a bunch of French citizens said "Non, merci!" to monarchy by storming the Bastille. In honor of the holiday, we're paying tribute to our French fashion brethren who have captured that spirit of rebellion in their own lives.

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Karl Lagerfeld's period film Once Upon a Time, which stars Keira Knightley as Coco Chanel, is finally here--all 15 glorious minutes of it. The designer-cum-director reportedly gave the actors, including Knightley, Clotilde Hesme, Lindsey Wixson, Stella Tennant, Tallulah Harlech, their lines just moments before shooting--which makes a lot of sense when you watch the film.

To add to your Coco Chanel biography collection: The Coco Chanel comic, a part of Naïve's "Grands Destins de Femmes" collection, with illustrations by Bernard Ciccolini and text by Pascale Frey. {Vogue Paris} Need a new job? Anna Wintour is on the prowl for her new PR director—and she's turning to the realm of politics and business to find one. {New York Post} Rachel Zoe's cutest ex-assistant Jeremiah Brent got engaged Monday to Nate Berkus. Mazel tov, 'Miah! {US Weekly} American Apparel's ads are once again brewing trouble. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is calling the company out for two predictably provocative ads in which the models appeared "vulnerable." {HuffPo}

Four-year-old Chanel model Hudson Kroenig will be in it too.

Here it is: The full Victoria Beckham editorial for French Elle, shot by Karl Lagerfeld himself in Coco Chanel's famous Paris apartment.

The Chanel fall/winter couture show is next week! OMG, we better start packing. Oh, wait. No, we're not really invited, but we do get to have a peek

Karl Lagerfeld sent his 2013 Cruise collection for Chanel down a "runway" at Versailles yesterday. Barely recognizable models strutted in candy-colore

Chanel just launched thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com, an "e-exhibition" of Lagerfeld-lensed models and celebrities wearing black Chanel jackets styled

Alexa Chung Named Newest BFC Style Ambassador: She's long been the stye ambassador to our hearts, but now Alexa Chung can add yet another title to her growing list of fashionable ventures. The British Fashion Council has named the influential Brit It-Girl their 'Young Style Ambassador,' as which she will "promote British fashion design talent to a global market." While it seems to us that Chung already does that job quite well, it never hurts to make things official. {Elle UK} Parsons Students Compete in International Fashion Showcase at London Fashion Week: The first ever International Fashion Showcase is happening now at London Fashion Week, with young designers from 19 different countries competing against each other for the Emerging Talent Award. Representing the US is a group of MFA students from Parsons, showing a collection titled "Lost Time is Never Found Again." {Racked} Carine Roitfeld Working with V on New Project? We've been anxious to hear about Carine's latest project following her departure from French Vogue, and now WWD is speculating that her new magazine may be in collaboration with V Magazine. Though Carine herself has yet to comment, she's already guest-edited an issue of the fashion mag and has reportedly been seen around the V office a lot lately... {WWD}

WWD reports a rather fun rumor this morning - That Audrey Tautou is in talks to replace Nicole Kidman as the new Chanel No.5 commercial girl. If the s