Coco Chanel

The Coco Chanel TV film staring Shirley McLaine has been slammed by critics. The film has been described as lacking in structure, full of factual inaccuracies and having 'wooden' acting, reports VOGUE.

Lifetime's "Coco Chanel," miniseries will feature Shirley MacLaine as the fashion icon.

MacLaine will play the designer in her later years, as she set out to re-establish her reputation as a fashion trendsetter. Barbora Bobulova ("In Love and War") will play the younger Chanel, reports Variety

Christian Duguay ("Human Trafficking," "Hitler: The Rise of Evil") is set to direct. Alchemy Television Group is behind the project, which has just begun principal photography.

Two-part mini will run in 2008 on Lifetime.

Karl Lagerfeld will pay homage to the men who influenced Coco Chanel at the Chanel Paris-Londres pre-collection fashion show on December 6 .

According to Vogue UK , Karl Lagerfeld was inspired by for Captain Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel, the English polo player who financed Coco Chanel's first shop. Capel's uniform blazers are said to have inspired Chanel to inject a squared-off, more masculine touch to her classic bouclé suiting. Lagerfeld also looked the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, whose English sensibilities rubbed off on Coco Chanel's design aesthetic.

I know there's a lot of us who don't read Women's Wear Daily, or many of us who read WWD online but not in print. So many people, including myself, missed the ad below. What you will see is a scathing letter from Chanel warning people of misusing the Chanel name or logo in ANY way (even in a good way, like saying something is Chanel-esque!). Watch your back!

Scanned ad courtesy of The Fashion Informer.