Chanel and Her World
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Manufacturer: Vendome Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.92092
EAN: 9780865651593
ISBN: 0865651590
Label: Vendome Press
Manufacturer: Vendome Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2005-03-09
Publisher: Vendome Press
Studio: Vendome Press
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Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first couture perfume-No. 5-which remains the most popular scent ever created.
In this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend. Chanel knew and collaborated with the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti-even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of elegance. The staggering collection of photographs amassed by the over decades of friendship with Chanel sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age. AUTHOR BIO: Edmonde Charles-Roux began her journalistic career at Elle and ultimately became editor-in-chief of French Vogue. She has published three novels, among them To Forget Palermo (Oublier Palerme), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1966.
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Summary: chanel her life
Comment: This is a book of someones life
which is something that is so interesting.
I would have loved to have known her.
What a life she had.
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Summary: Chanel
Comment: This book is very fascinating about the life of Coco Chanel. It reads interesting, capturing the reader's attention. The old photographs are interesting, as well. I was pleasantly surprised and not at all bored by her life story and the manner in which it was told.
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Summary: the rise, fall and rise of one woman
Comment: Not only beautifully written, it gives you a perfect picture of a fascinating era and a fascinating woman. In a way Chanel lived ahead of her time, on the other hand she had a perfect sense how to translate that into the time she was living. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
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Summary: CHANEL
Comment: I love the book I purchased, but would love another Chanel book covering all of her designs. Would you plese recommend a book that has mostly colored photographs of her design? WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT M Miller
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Summary: What a BEAUTIFUL book! A true treasure...
Comment: Perfectly perfect. Everyone should have this book, and give it as a gift! Wow.
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