Arena: Coco Chanel Unbuttoned

Documentary examining the life of the iconic designer and her creations, including the little black dress, the tweed suit, and the chain handbag. Coco Chanel's life was so extraordinary that it has long threatened to overshadow even her professional achievements. Coco was the designer who started a revolution inspired by her own trailblazing and radical appetite for independence. She liberated women from heavy, corseted clothes, giving them freedom to work, move and celebrate themselves. In a male-dominated world she was rewarded with unrivalled wealth, recognition and celebrity, counting everyone from Winston Churchill to Cecil Beaton as friends. But despite her triumph, Coco remained an enigma. Until her death in 1971 at the age of 87, she veiled the truth of her poor childhood growing up in an orphanage, her early years as a kept mistress and her sense of being a perpetual outsider