Karl Lagerfeld's Coco Chanel Film, 'The Return'

[@madelinebrennan9636]

I loved this little film. A genuine tribute to this woman who knew she was good even when others didn't. I loved it.

[@garyhochstetler7082]

Even when she was selling out her own people to the NAZIs?

[@madelinebrennan7603]

@@garyhochstetler7082 I'm an old lady. One thing you learn as you grow old: people are complicated/messy. Artists almost especially.

[@garyhochstetler7082]

@@madelinebrennan7603 People ended up in concentration camps because of her. That is more than someone’s life being “messy”.

[@madelinebrennan7603]

Messy just means, to me... everything. The full catastrophe as Zorba says. I think you perhaps define it differently than I do. Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, ... other artists who represent, to me, the full catastrophe. You cannot dismiss what they brought to art and to American culture but you can't dismiss what they did either. The Yin and Yang--the full contradictions evidence in human existence. This is my perception anyway.

[@janbarrett4544]

I would hardly describe an antisemitic and homophobic Nazi agent as 'good' under any circumstances. You must be very uninformed.

[@01maggie]

Karl casted this movie beautifully!!! Really captured Coco!❤️

[@lapislazuli7876]

Chaplin was terrible. What are you talking about. It’s atrocious. Nothing like Gabrielle Chanel at all.

[@wisdomforlife6900]

The most important thing for a woman is to be loved.. To know that she's been loved. Its not to love, to love is easy, anyone can love; its to know that she's/she's been loved; truly, deeply, unconditionally.

[@wisdomforlife6900]

Ugliness you can get over, but bad taste, you never get over it

[@gardengeek3041]

Stupendous! Not surprising to see hundreds of names in the credits for a film so expertly crafted. A perfect reflection of all that goes into creating true haute couture.

[@therenaissancewoman2080]

I loved this short film. Channel was a pioneer leading the way for other great fashion designers. Her determination to break past social cultures she found to be dampening is an example for us all. She was an inspiration to so many. I love her fragrance. I remember when I was very young, around six or seven, my sister and I received a perfume sample of Channel no. 19 from the lady behind the cosmetic counter. We were thrilled. When I dabbed on the fragrance it took me into the world of channel. I knew what my style was even then. I never grew up wearing jeans. Hated them. At the tender age of three, I recall being at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec where I was born, and I especially liked seeing the women dressed up. I knew at that age I loved the elegant designs and especially the designs of Coco Channel.

[@einfakinn6236]

and yet after all these years u didnt learn how to spell Chanel 🫠

[@natashadickson4819]

True. But it's Chanel...with one n

[@Gep1906]

Is Chanel man

[@m.theresacarozza8173]

Her fashion and style will never fade. Simplicity is beauty. I have Mr Lagerfeld 's shoulder bag. It's sad about his passing.

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah..... Her style never fades as those colors doesn't look like fade which are used for those beautiful and fabulous collections..... I think u got it......

[@wisdomforlife6900]

'I think that love is probably more important in a woman's life than it is in a man's life. And I do know that a woman that has never been loved and was not loved is lost, in fact, as good as dead'.

[@dcmbb1985]

Beautiful

[@rmp7400]

Love is more important to a woman only because men and women are not configured the same ...man needs respect foremost, or a love relationship with a woman cannot exist and endure. And these days, not many women know how to respect a man....why so few marriages are successful, even when they are attempted ... Perhaps ...if more women really were committed to being appreciated & loved, they would make more of an intelligent effort and make corresponding sacrifices necessary to ensure for themselves and their significant other an enduring, respectful loving relationship 🌹

[@cleopatra658]

She was way ahead of her time! She revolutionized Women’s Fashion and it’s still at the height of Fashion a century later! 😍

[@carriewu5721]

now a date, this is the symbol of the women with real power and the confidence. the symbol, not only with beauty (in and out) but power. the power could manage her self and others.

[@aldarizzo4801]

okay and enough compliments, we all know she was the cat's miow, one of my fav if not my favourite, but they did not show how she used to sit and draw her fashion styles so eloquently, so many sketches, I would have loved to have seen them, it's a shame the film is so short, I would have watched at least another hour or more and wanted to see her have some fun on the dancefloor, after all her style was all about Coco

[@emiliawilson4378]

Same❤

[@dianedo1234]

Hi! Did you see the Coco television film about Ms. Chaplin? Played by Shirley MacLaine, to a T! What she could do with a scarf, and lots of long strings of faux pearls! Not lucky in love as well. I would LOVE a Chanel tote, $ 5,000.00 !

[@lyndawilliams4570]

There are at least 2 good movies about her. Coco before Chanel and the one with Shirley McClaine

[@mdmelle1]

Chanel didn’t know how to draw , she hired people to draw for her

[@anastasiosmegaris4400]

She never sketched.

[@YongandMike]

Watching this because it is Coco Chanel's birthday today.

[@nicolettaciccone8869]

I like Coco Channel, her designs were made from her heart and love, style and beauty.

[@maxinefowler1186]

Coco officially started FASHION! She had tea FOR WOMEN AT HER HOUSE, so they could see her new Suits that she had made. And other items to purchase! That was before the first World War. She had her friends walk around her Home with her Suits on. THOSE WERE THE FIRST MODELS. Women are very powerful, it makes hundreds of millions of dollars Channel No. 5 etc. This is long after she passed away!

[@RaffAlx]

That film is absolutely amazing! Lagerfeld do an exquisit work!

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah..... Exquisite work Has done..... Great to see and wonderful to watch.......

[@kisia156]

Coco Chanel come back was the birth of a "little black dress" in the meaning we are accustomed to in present time. Before her return to fashion world, little black dress was warn by widows of war and had a very sad meaning.

[@gabrielacismigiu4981]

Not true! She didn’t invent the Little black dress! She Said that but is not true! Even Lagerfeld tried to find way to go around the bush when was directly asked:).

[@rajaamohammed5831]

I love chanel the brand and coco is a such inspiring person

[@Cdwegryd1133]

Rajaa mohammed she was a nazi conspirator

[@tomazseczkmuhn1549]

Connie C is perfectly right :-) Coco Chanel despite her true talent was a really disgusting person who supported nazis in preservation of her own interests...

[@marymccarty9374]

She was also a Nazi sympathizer and spy.

[@ruzzelladrian907]

In American you have a lot to learn about style. She was right. American look up to Europeans especially the French.

[@SeattleWashingtonvlogs]

French people are depressed and angry all the time, we got everything we want. French people ate dying to live American life too bad they cant afford it 😢 they speack it. They can't have more then 2 people in their tiny apartments.

[@garymorgan3314]

@@SeattleWashingtonvlogs The French work fewer hours than you (by law) and they've a much better quality of lives. Their towns and cities have charm, many American ones do not. There healthcare is among the very best. I have to praise them and I'm British.

[@mtngrl5859]

@@garymorgan3314 While I love France and enjoyed living there when I was a student, from a business perspective ( opening a business there are running a business there) one has to be almost insane to do so due to its regulations, taxes. If one has income sourced from another country or from investments and lives less the amount needed to be declared a tax resident, then it can be great. One can always buy into the French medical system for a reasonable price. If one works remotely, they can choose to work the hours the want to in any country,. Most of my career, I've been self employed, so haven't had to follow the dictates of any employer, so my time is my own.

[@garymorgan3314]

@@mtngrl5859 Yes Jean Marie you certainly make a fair point and it is rare to meet a French emigrant in London who doesn't lament the bane of bureaucracy in France. Nevertheless I think that the quality of life there is better: the food is far less often processed, towns and cities are far more attractive and the politics, while hardly inspiring, is certainly less dismal than England's let alone completely dysfunctional as America's. Happy New Year. Gary.

[@tweety123]

@@garymorgan3314 AMEN to that.. I live in California and I'm 💯 % agreed with you 👍👍

[@roxanne4820]

"try wearing blue jeans see what it does to your face" hahahaha brilliant

[@stephaniepattock5543]

Hahaha this was my favorite part

[@LynnSandler-j9k]

An astonishing artist with dream and the audacity and persistance to make the vision come to fruition, a huge SUCCESS that was CoCo Chanel.

[@RachelIn179]

This was excellent. I've watched the feature films of Chanel and found the films too focused on her relationships. It is her work that has fascinated me and the woman behind it. Geraldine Chaplin and all the rest of the cast were wonderful.

[@selmacyrinebelhadi6141]

Trop court ! Très joli petit film, émouvante scène entre Geraldine Chaplin et Anna Mouglalis. Avant de le voir, je me demandais pourquoi pas une actrice française, mais finalement Geraldine Chaplin incarne Gabrielle Chanel à la perfection. Bravo Karl et tous les comédiens !

[@gardengeek3041]

Oui, au debut ça semble une choix curieuse, mais finalement le casting de Ms Chaplin pour cette rōle est tout à fait parfait. Rarement qu'une actrice d'une certain age se voit authentiquement ridée, comme une vielle fumese toujours avec une seche dans le main.

[@Laura_Iri-ARTE]

“Not about fashion, is about style “

[@AlvaSudden]

Journalist: "Who can decide what is good or bad taste?" Mme Chanel: "Me." 😄

[@cassandraralph5906]

Revealing movie about Coco Chanel, beautifully and carefully put together by Karl Lagerfeld! I was very impressed! Geraldine Chaplin would have made her father Charlie Chaplin very happy and proud of her.

[@sumajewski8368]

I think she achieved that when he played in Chaplin opposite Robert Downey, Jr.

[@suzettecalleja3122]

Wasn't Geraldine Chaplin Chaplins wife, not his daughter 🙄

[@chaqillenikita748]

@@suzettecalleja3122 - No, Geraldine is indeed a daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona Chaplin (née O’Neill) 😊. Interestingly, she played her own grandmother, Hannah Chaplin, the the 1992 film, “Chaplin”!

[@lapislazuli7876]

@@chaqillenikita748Chaplin was terrible as Gabrielle. To begin with, her accent is all wrong. The speech pattern, the rhythm all of it is just wrong. She sounded and acted nothing like Mademoiselle. It needed to be played by a French actress to get all of that right. Karl wasn’t a very good director in fact. I know the trolls will get angry but it’s just a fact.

[@elizabeths4371]

An enjoyable short film and Geraldine Chaplin totally inhabited her character.

[@lydiarowe491]

A deliight to see Geraldine Chaplin being Coco Chanel...short and with the style evoked from this evergreen brand that will be with us forever..bravo.

[@victorschweikert92]

Bowral is the

[@nora2041]

Short but wonderful piece

[@CajunLady333]

Geraldine Chaplin actually looks like Coco Chanel. Great casting.

[@douglasvancier7683]

Too wrinkled in the face for her age then.

[@isaaqdoesstuff7623]

@@douglasvancier7683 she was 71 aha

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

They actually aged her. She still looks healthy and well taken care of l. The Actress disappears into the role, so you don't see her.!!!

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Bravo Karl. Bravo Geraldine.

[@marxmovies6607]

Encore un coup de maître de Karl, peut-être le meilleur. Tout est beau, y compris la musique très recherchée. Un enchantement pour les yeux, les oreilles et le cerveau. Géraldine, je t'aime - une ancienne copine de Lausanne, quand on était petites.

[@monicapaleykaufman9058]

“Who can decide what is good and bad taste? “ Coco Chanel: “me”

[@milagrosmoral7330]

Yes, not "ego" at all!!! They are not great. They have de talent to make other people believe that they are great.....

[@catziesthefirst]

What a GEM this is. Thank you Bal Harbour shops from a fashion-obsessed kid from Coconut Grove. Peace!

[@nightmaremermaidanimations5649]

By watching this I can tell she had a lot of pressure on top of her but she was a genius

[@drshawkyzeineddine.]

Many of those actors , actrices, designers, singers, models, i liked.. Passed away. 😢

[@karljoseph4766]

Coco Chanel is a symbol of success and hard work the perfect example to flow here style is beautiful however the time ❤️❤️❤️

[@amyness1762]

ah yes the phone calls...this filmed in 2008? I trulllyyy loved that darn walk-in closet...just watched CoCo Chanel with Shirley Mccaine last night! happy new year everyone! 2022 is going to be great! love this version too. She's great in it.

[@beatricenicholas6257]

I like the Poulenc Oboe Sonata music in the background

[@PLoya-tr3es]

Bravo !! Je ñ'ai jamais vu ce genre de grand film !

[@EmpereurdeLan3000]

19:35 Don’t forget about what ? Don’t forget that America 🇺🇸 is the country that rediscovered you. Touché !

[@LynnSandler-j9k]

Innovative and brilliant ahead of her time. Her style will live on in all women whom are inspired by the need to wear a classic Chanel Tweed. Interesting yet inspiring story.

[@LynnSandler-j9k]

Re open her shop, SMART idea 🎉

[@glennwalter1969]

Stunning! Absolutely stunning. CL’s love of Coco is absolutely apparent!!

[@wisdomforlife6900]

Good taste is spiritual, it come from good spiritual values

[@riturao6565]

I have her blazer. Black with golden buttons. I wear it with pencil skirt or simply with back jeans, heels and hem underneath

[@jeremynoble931]

One of the few occasions when Karl was almost brave enough to bite the hand that fed him...

[@emiliawilson4378]

Wait what do you mean?

[@Amaizingra]

Nice short movie thank you 🎉

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Wonderful Story, about a Wonderful Person, by a Wonderful Actress . Bravo !

[@cynthiacupler8005]

I just love Coco .🐈

[@LBD1926]

( モードではなく私は スタイルを作ったのだ) ( 私はシャネルスーツを 2着持っている この2着で私はいつも ちゃんとした格好でいられる これがシャネルと言うものだ ) …これがシャネルと言うものだ。なんと言う自信溢れた 言葉 シャネルの全ての哲学が 凝縮された言葉だと思います！ ファッションだけではなく 時代を変え革命を起こした 自由と自立 働く女性の先駆者✨ シャネルは自分にとって 先生以上 憧れ 頑張れる存在です💪 自分がシャネルになった気でサロン ワークをしています！ 動画ありがとうございます😌

[@Ingrid0410]

Well done! I love this film!

[@nocount1]

Anyone know who the character in the black chiffon and feathers is supposed to be? Jeanne Moreau? Juliette Greco?

[@jaqenhghar6996]

Interviewer: "Who can decide what is good or bad taste"? Gabrielle "CoCo" Chanel: "Me"! 🗣📢🏆

[@jennahoxie5782]

Thank you! This was excellent. To the best fashion designer. Love this short film.

[@virginiabotha3545]

Talent can never be denied or covered up.❤

[@LiliansGardens]

Very intresting to see all these people again. I don't know how I got here but I like it and I'm subscribed.

[@SS11660]

These suits still as popular as ever.

[@louisestevenson5102]

How classic are channels designs

[@maxlinder5262]

Interesting snippet .......of her life ..

[@pollyanasilva2058]

Pq não é traduzido em português????

[@wisdomforlife6900]

If you're born without wings, don't do anything to prevent them from growing

[@trinahirris5039]

I love her she was so beautiful and spirit and yet for myself I wanted to be a designer every since I was a little girl I made my first purse at 10 years old and it took off from there but never did nothing with it my grandmother and my dad are professional tailors for me dresses are easy to make and coats are easy to make my pants are so hard to make because of the crotch area so that was my biggest fear in order to be a designer you had to design all around the board which is coach dresses and pants now here I am 50 years old and when he talked about her youth and when she say young woman's don't know nothing about style that is true now that I'm 53 years old I have elegancy about myself my daughter bought me a sewing machine and I've been so scared to use it I've been Googling and yet researching a lot of famous designer patterns but I feel like I'm too old for now watching Coco Chanel I feel that I can accomplish my dreams and the sad part about it up saying that she smoke cigarettes like I do but I am trying to quit want to know was in a lot of cigarette smoke in her fabric but anyway Coco Chanel You're My Greatest Inspiration you and Valentino

[@cleopatra658]

I always wanted to be a Fashion Designer too, it was my passion starting at a young age! I was sewing purses and Barbie clothes before I was 10! I was a little Fashionista and gave my Mom grief over my clothes/outfits! I had to wear a uniform to school and it was so ugly! 🤣 By age 13 1 was sewing my own clothes and got better and better as time went on! I wanted to go to Fashion Design/Art School! My parents were not supportive of that idea, so it never happened! It still stings sometimes! I don’t know when I discovered Coco, but she’s my Idol! I’m 65 now!

[@edgregory392]

Excellent film, but I missed the part about her German officer lover during the Occupation. Wasn't that Collaboration?

[@singaporechickenrice2484]

love the germans

[@LeahElisheva]

Absolutely. She was a collaborator. 😢

[@lulueusebia5789]

@@LeahElishevashe also had an affair with Igor Stravinsky ( a Russian composer) who she asked to move to her chateau with his wife who was ill and his children. 😡

[@LeahElisheva]

@@lulueusebia5789 oh Stravinsky sure I know that name but I wasn’t aware of the affair. 😤

[@charlieguzman8866]

Spy you dunce

[@anavilla7134]

COCO CHANEL ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE WOMEN OF THE MODERN ERA, WAS INSPIRED TO MAKE HER DESIGNS BY THE CAN-CAN DANCERS, WHICH I TALK ABOUT IN A VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL

[@mikaelahatami]

Wow, it was great really impressed me. Oh love Coco Chanel. Inspired me as well.

[@robertahubert9155]

Film was not long enough. RIP CoCo

[@leerdee]

Really appreciated this film.

[@miriamhavard7621]

Can we get a longer version of this movie????!!!!

[@texas1949]

Miriam! Fancy meeting you here! Hey, girl! ❤ Love me some Coco 🎉

[@miriamhavard7621]

​@@texas1949Hey, GIRL!!!! 😊🌺💖

[@rosemariestudy7781]

She was FRENCH - did not expect the American accent!

[@miriamhavard7621]

😭😂😂😂😂ik,r?

[@indigozen4794]

Those deep voices...I love a woman's deep voice

[@imanbell2827]

Her comments about love literally made me sad low-key. I'm happy our generation has started to find the importance of self love and how it is better than any other form of love. I still love romance though don't get me wrong.

[@noobie7719]

Such a tension between those two ideas...feminism and “traditional feminism”. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to get in touch with who we are and what we (really!) feel.

[@oliquin-roo3420]

She wasn't known to be very kind and dated a member of the Nazi party, she also dated King Edward who was also a sympathizer. She did know love, in fact the reason she dated many men is because her on true love, the one she would have married, died in a car accident. I believe he was a British noblemen but not sure on the last part. Upon her reopening of her store she handed creative directorship to Karl Lagerfeld, who sadly might have also been racist. 😓

[@riccardodececco4404]

@@oliquin-roo3420 "might have also been racist" - soso, how do you want to know it? But maybe it´s justified to be "racist" against dumb-heads like yours....

[@rmp7400]

@@oliquin-roo3420 would you have been happier if she allied with the Stalinists and Maoists like the USA had done...and continues to do?🤔

[@miriamhavard7621]

​@@oliquin-roo3420he wasn't a nobleman. He was from a humble background; but he was very rich, and very ambitious. He chose to marry a woman from an aristocratic background instead of CoCo.

[@thomaskeiper4534]

Loved it just as I love Coco Channel. ❤

[@annagdaniec1074]

I LOVE Coco Chanel

[@VADACHE]

Understated luxury that what Chanel jacket it all about .. she is amazing and strong women alone against the world donated by men and war . Way-shower for all of us modern women coco your spirit is alive.

[@2degucitas]

I read the jacket was born when she took a man's sweater, cut it down the front and added trim to the cut edges.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Brilliant I love it. The beige lace is Perfection!!

[@KO-eq7mq]

She made everything smell like smoke. Now that’s class

[@xocaloidkun9222]

Yaasss

[@cynthiacupler8005]

Very true.

[@miriamhavard7621]

No doubt they were fine, expensive cigarettes. Very high-end, fashionable smelling smoke from those hoity-toity ciggies.

[@m.theresacarozza8173]

Good short film

[@MegaByron1970]

Is that the first time someone asked her out?

[@marcelplavec6453]

SHE is JUST BRILIANT

[@HONORTONUMERIC123]

Yeah....not only brilliant but also intelligent.....

[@valcalif]

🚩19:45 Without a comment of the journalist we would not understand correctly the phrase "In America you have a lot to learn about a style" 😜

[@daskapital3532]

I m not sure that there were thin heels at that year. Hope Lagerfeld did not over look it

[@denamartinez9005]

Oh, I Loved Karl, I have most of his tops, they are so unique and cute.

[@maxinefowler1186]

Karl was the right person to design for Coco's Fashion House! I have been to Paris, I stopped by the store there, and bought a few items.

[@joanvancasteren6627]

Zij heeft de mooiste Mode.. coco Channel.

[@katylagrande7658]

Very nice movie 🍿

[@TheBohemianStyle]

Why was Coco Chanel addressed as Mademoiselle, instead as Madam when she was an older woman? Is that the proper etiquette?

[@jlasf]

With a long credits reel, there is no indication whether the clothes are from the Chanel archive or recreations. I suspect they are originals.

[@andersliljevall2946]

extravagant Schiaparelli called her "that boring Little seamstress"

[@selmacyrinebelhadi6141]

The "boring little seamstress" , or rather the daring selfmade woman, had a thrilling life, surrounded by famous artists. Most of all, she built a worldwide empire, and it lasts till today. Where's Schiaparelli in 2020 ?

[@SMIRNOFFdesignSTUDIO]

"I HATE SHORT SKIRT AND I HATE BLUE JEANS!" E X A C T L Y!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo! "IN AMERICA YOU HAVE A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT STYLE!" P E R F E C T!!!

[@christophlieding734]

We got the money you got the stile.

[@ZZ-mm7bb]

christoph lieding Style*

[@SeattleWashingtonvlogs]

You are dying to be in America and live American life, speak perfect english, to be rich, have money, beautiful big house with spacious kitchen, dinning over 20 people in your house due to having enough space too bad ....you are stuck in boring , dark, depressing, sick. And always mad angry people in FRANCE. You can even have more then 4 people in your house because there is no space they would be sitting on top of each other. Sour 🍇 Grapes

[@luci1474]

Just bc she said it it doesn’t t mean she is right. May be right for her particular taste, figure, hight, etc. If you don’t got the money or technology at least at that time you would have to conform to a pair of trousers. Having said that, you guys slobber over Levi’s jeans. Lastly, you guys aren’t well dress, you guys tell yourself boring is style. You guys don’t have vision or creativity. At the time those clothes were right and no one can argue with the quality but again. When was that?

[@brianhowes9898]

This is brilliant x

[@goldenglove4663]

LOVE BAL HARBOR SHOPS....

[@romagarcia4770]

Castellano por favor

[@Gep1906]

I need to watch completely this movie ❤

[@mr.anta_an5919]

💐👑💐WHAT GLORIOUS DAYS 💐👑💐 💐⚘💜WE WILL MISS U KARL 💜⚘💐

[@LaurenMakai]

Amazing.

[@adrianamertea5499]

Eduard de B as Coco Chanel.

[@billiebuffalo]

4:00 "Honey look what I just got! I bought a new dress and it already reaks of smoke!"

[@mjloves28]

I am sure you put WORST things in your mouth than cigars! I was adopted, I know what she feels

[@mjloves28]

You must have never been through hard times, therefore feel superior to the rest of us little people, Karen must be your name. A.k.a Privileged person who can not accept others

[@FactoryGirlWannabe]

Maria Zeledon Chill, it’s a joke 😂

[@kathybishop6623]

Everything smelled like smoked back then.

[@aquariby3896]

So authentic

[@carmelfiglan1786]

I'm happy I watched the documentary ....she really changed the world the movie allso inspiring...

[@riturao6565]

Good taste is spiritual.... Wow. I love her

[@milagrosmoral7330]

being spiritual has nothing to do whith taste, spiritual is beyond all that!!!!!!!!!

[@wisdomforlife6900]

...Women dress for other women.. ..but thinking about it, If men would disappear, I don't think women would make any efforts. I nolonger dress for men or for women. I've learnt to please for all kinds of women and all kinds of men.

[@blackbird5634]

''Oat culture'' has so little relevance for the rest of us it's silly to see people taking it so seriously.

[@2degucitas]

Haute couture trickles down and affects us all. We get to choose what we want from it.

[@miriamhavard7621]

@@2degucitas "The Devil Wears Prada" broke that down quite excellently.

[@grybnyx]

Where was Ariel Dombasle?

[@ubermensch202]

She was the French critic at the show