{"id":423782,"date":"2024-11-26T08:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423782"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Chanel-family-matriarch-dies-aged-99-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Chanel-family-matriarch-dies-aged-99-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanel family matriarch dies aged 99: company"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eliane Heilbronn, mother of the secretive owners of luxury group Chanel, has died aged 99, the company said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The brand is famed for its creative director Karl Lagerfeld, perfumes such as Chanel No 5 and its distinctive quilted handbags.<\/p>\n

Its owners Alain Wertheimer and his brother Gerard are the grandsons of the label’s co-founder Pierre Wertheimer.<\/p>\n

“Chanel is deeply saddened to confirm the death of Madame Eliane Heilbronn,” the group said in a statement, adding that a private funeral will be organised.<\/p>\n

In 1947, Eliane Fisher married Jacques Wertheimer, the only son of Pierre Wertheimer, who owned Parfums Chanel and later the Chanel fashion house with his brother Paul.<\/p>\n

They had two sons, Alain in 1948 and Gerard in 1951, before divorcing in 1952.<\/p>\n

Eliane later married Didier Heilbronn, with whom she had a son, Charles Gregoire.<\/p>\n

In her 30s, Eliane Wertheimer studied law at New York University and graduated in 1958.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1978, she co-founded Salans Hertzfeld Heilbronn, which became Chanel’s private law firm.<\/p>\n

Four years earlier, Jacques Wertheimer had handed over the management of Chanel to his son Alain, aged 25.<\/p>\n

“Since then, not a dispute, not a project, not an acquisition of a stake has taken place without Eliane Heilbronn’s approval”, Yann Kerlau said in his book The Dynasties of Luxury.<\/p>\n

“Her sons Alain and Gerard, as well as the son from her second marriage Charles Gregoire, owe her everything.”<\/p>\n

She drafted Karl Lagerfeld’s contract in 1982 when he was hired as Chanel’s creative director.<\/p>\n

Eliane Heilbronn’s death comes at a time when Chanel has yet to name a successor to Virginie Viard, who stepped down last June as artistic director of fashion and haute couture.<\/p>\n

In May, privately-held Chanel said\u00a0its sales jumped last year to a record just shy of $20 billion, although profits only edged higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Eliane Heilbronn, the mother of the secretive owners of luxury group Chanel, has died aged 99<\/p>\n

-ERIC FEFERBERG
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