By Nadine Kam

Just yesterday, in talking about the opening of the film, “Coco Before Chanel,” I mentioned how Chanel “had to be tough and smart to make it in a man’s world when, to this day, all the major French couture houses bear the names of their male creators.”

So just today, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about the resurrection of the house of Vionnet, founded by designer Madeleine Vionnet in 1939.

But, just as Karl Lagerfeld serves as designer for Chanel today, design duties at the revived Vionnet have been assigned to a man, Rodolfo Paglialunga.

You can read the story at http://www.hsblinks.com/18v

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One of Andy Warhol’s depictions of Chanel No. 5.

Chanel fans will also have another peek into the designer’s life next year via a film adaptation of Chris Greenlagh’s novel, “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Riverhead TPK Original). The book is due for release next month, with the film — that closed the Cannes Film Festival this year — scheduled for U.S. release in January 2010.

The two works present the brief, fiery and little-known affair between Chanel and the legendary composer, that is said to have inspired both, leading his music in a new direction, and to her creation of the legendary perfume, Chanel No. 5.

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