Fashion Icon Coco Chanel Miniseries
December 25, 2007 | Filed Under Designer Fashion, Fashion Designers
What happens when you combine fashion history with television? A “Chanel” miniseries, that’s what. Lifetime plans on airing a show which follows the story of Coco Chanel, starting with her growing up in an orphanage outside of Paris. However, the focus of the show is on Chanel’s reinventing herself, after she re-established herself as a fashion trendsetter in her 70s.
Chanel, who died in 1971, was named one of the most influential people of the 20th century by Time Magazine.
Director Christian Duguay said he wants to make the miniseries into something meaningful. “There’s no point in doing it if it won’t educate people and entertain, but in an original way. It’s a love story, it’s a rags-to-riches story, it has some strong social statements about women and about how the world has changed.”
Shirley MacLaine will be playing Coco Chanel in her later years, and Barbora Bobulova will be playing her in her early years. The two-part miniseries will be airing sometime in 2008.
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