The fashion house hopes the new title, Arts & Culture, can extend Coco Chanel’s legacy of surrounding herself with “audacious creatives.”

Over a century after Coco Chanel founded her label in Paris, the French fashion house is making a foray into the boutique print media sphere by starting its first glossy arts magazine.

Chanel’s new annual tome, Arts & Culture, was released this week, with the first issue devoted to chronicling the practice and lives of contemporary artists (alongside plenty of promotional Chanel editorial content). It features cultural essays about artists like Tracey Emin, Lu Yang and Tomás Saraceno. There’s an interview with the photographer Stephen Shore and a report on A.I. art by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The cover depicts a bust of Ms. Chanel that was made by the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz in 1921.

“This is Chanel’s first arts and culture magazine and you can feel Gabrielle Chanel’s legacy in

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