Sentence examples for past Chanel from inspiring English sources

Past Chanel Road.

"This past Chanel collection had all those outrageous grizzly suits, and even Jason Wu had turbans running down his runways," she said.

The announcement that the golden-haired Ms. Lively — a physical departure from past Chanel waifs like Keira Knightley, Kate Moss and Vanessa Paradis — would be featured in Chanel's spring campaign seemed to be the final step of her initiation into fashion's upper echelons, and for those who know her only as the princess of the CW network, it provoked some resentful eye rolls.

Alber Elbaz, the creative director of Lanvin, says he marvels that fashion icons of the past, like Coco Chanel with her tweeds and pearls or Madame Grès and her draped cloth, followed the same path all their fashion lives.

Her life and style have been copiously documented in past works including "Chanel and Her World" (1985) by her friend and biographer, Edmonde Charles-Roux, and the 1969 Broadway musical "Coco," starring Katharine Hepburn.

Chanel's past is left even vaguer.

I want to waltz into umpteen after-show parties and be offered platters of swan neck sushi while Brad Pitt walks past me, reeking of Chanel cologne.

Given Coco Chanel's wartime past, what do you make of the prominence and popularity of the Chanel brand today?

IN the spring of 1997, Edward Mapplethorpe, an artist, was coming out of the now-shuttered Jerry's restaurant in SoHo when Michelle Yun, a young woman in oversize Chanel glasses, breezed past him.

I would think of actors who have a restrained stylishness combined with wit and intelligence: Kristin Scott Thomas, Audrey Tautou, Alan Rickman, Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Fry. Several of these actors have been chosen for the roles of sophisticated figures from the past: Fry played Oscar Wilde, Tatou played Chanel, Blanchett played Katharine Hepburn.

Maybe the creative director was hinting at Chanel's not insignificant feminist past.