Chanel and Her World: Friends, Fashion, and Fame - Hardcover

Charles-Roux, Edmonde

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865651590 ISBN 13: 9780865651593

Publisher: Vendome Press, 2005

Synopsis

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Epoque, 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...

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About the Author:

Edmonde Charles-Roux, nee le 17 avril 1920 a Neuilly-sur-Seine, est une femme de lettres francaise. Elle a egalement ete la conjointe de Gaston Defferre ancien maire de Marseille. Elle recoit le prix Goncourt en 1966 pour le roman Oublier Palerme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vendome Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0865651590
• ISBN 13: 9780865651593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384