Chanel is one of the world's best-known luxury labels, but the family that owns the $20 billion brand remains shrouded in ...

Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, whose grandfather cofounded Chanel with Coco Chanel, gained nearly $5 billion apiece last week. The brothers' estimated fortunes of $48.1 billion each put them 29th ...

Last year, Mousse, the firm headed by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer’s half-brother Charles Heilbronn was among a trio of France’s wealthiest dynasties to help take private Rothschild & Co ...

The story goes that she turned to Nazi laws to attempt to reclaim control of Parfums Chanel after French businessman Pierre Wertheimer took a 70 per cent share to expand Chanel No. 5 in the ...

C hanel, the epitome of French luxury, has lost its matriarch. Eliane Heilbronn, the mother of Chanel co-owners Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, passed away at the age of 99.

Alain and Gerard Wertheimer both own assets worth $43.3 billion each, making them the joint 29th richest individuals in the world, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Other fashion billionaires who have seen their net worth rise "fairly consistently since 2000" include Nike cofounder and chairman emeritus Phil Knight; Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, majority ...

In 1985, the owners of Chanel, Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer, hired Kopelman as Chanel Inc.'s president and chief ...

French trainer Jerome Reynier has launched an extraordinary attack on his US-based compatriot Flavien Prat, who rode stable ...