More than a hundred years since it was founded, Chanel is one of the world's best-known brands. Its financial results remain in rude health; in 2022 the company reported revenues of $17.2 billion, up 17 per cent on the previous year.
This is in spite of, or perhaps because of, its steady increase in prices. Amy Odell recently reported in her Back Row newsletter that a medium classic flap bag has increased 104 per cent since 2019 to around an eye-watering $11,850.
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Arteta's five-year Lewis-Skelly plan pays out in gold
Teenage star's precocious talent and fearless nature justifies the hype in breakthrough season
The Hill Garden and Pergola
Can heritage be romantic? Without a doubt.
Reallife calling: don't let AI suck the love out of online dating
In Spike Jonze's 2013 film, Her, Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with the AI chatbot inside his phone.
Why Space X could destroy the fragile Musk-Trump bromance
The race to Mars could make or break Elon Musk's special relationship with the President
At home with...Sarah CorbettWinder
The stylist is creating a playful escape for her family
How a cancelled cult designer rose again
The rise, fall and rise of Art School's Eden Loweth
The bill wasn't the only hard thing to swallow
Let's get to it: the bill was a horror. £309 for two. For a night of fried chicken and snails and no pudding. For God's sake.
Is there anyone left in London who hasn't got ADHD?
We're reaching a saturation point of over-diagnosis and the internet is to blame, say psychiatrists
Sophistication andwitare in short supplyin this tired sequel
To paraphrase her own mode of self-criticism, this latest instalment in the saga of hapless London singleton Bridget Jones is v v poor.
facing Oh, baby! London's the mother of all problems
We're having fewer and fewer children. Why, and what does it mean for our city?
