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Chanel and her World
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A lavish visual treatment of the life and times of Gabrielle Chanel, one of the great stories of the modern age.
A lavish visual treatment of the life and times of Gabrielle Chanel, one of the great stories of the modern age.
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the first ever couture perfume, N° 5; and the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark.
Chanel went everywhere and knew everyone - Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Visconti - and, as this sumptuously illustrated volume clearly shows, her accomplishments constitute one of the great stories of the modern age. Her extraordinary life is eminently suited to the lavish visual treatment of this beautiful book, which features some 600 illustrations from an extraordinary collection amassed over the years by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel's official biographer and close friend. An authoritative and practised writer, Charles-Roux used painstaking research and vivid eyewitness accounts to set the pictures in their context of time and place. She makes Chanel live again!
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the first ever couture perfume, N° 5; and the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark.
Chanel went everywhere and knew everyone - Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Visconti - and, as this sumptuously illustrated volume clearly shows, her accomplishments constitute one of the great stories of the modern age. Her extraordinary life is eminently suited to the lavish visual treatment of this beautiful book, which features some 600 illustrations from an extraordinary collection amassed over the years by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel's official biographer and close friend. An authoritative and practised writer, Charles-Roux used painstaking research and vivid eyewitness accounts to set the pictures in their context of time and place. She makes Chanel live again!
Praise for Chanel and her World
Excellent ... beautifully compiled and ambitious ... Charles-Roux's knowledge of her subject and milieu is encyclopaedic
Independent
Magnificent ... Chanel used to say she created not a fashion but a style. This book has plenty of it
Daily Mail
About the Author
Edmonde Charles-Roux (1920-2016) was among the founding editors of Elle magazine and a longtime editor of French Vogue. She won the Prix Goncourt in 1966 for her novel To Forget Palermo.
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