Editor
Chanel is one of the world’s best-known luxury labels, but the family that owns the $20 billion brand remains shrouded in mystery.
Brothers Alain and Gérard Wertheimer are rarely photographed. You’re more likely to find the billionaires on a horseracing track than at a fashion event, but when they do attend Chanel shows, they hang back in the third or fourth row.
Still, their family’s destiny has been intertwined with the…
