Coco chanel biography book
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Coco Chanel: The Biography (A Complete Life from Beginning to the End)
Like any great legend, the history of fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, also known as "Coco Chanel," is marked by poverty, abandonment, love, genius, and fame, unveiling what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon. Chanel's life story begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage and her flight into unconventional adulthood, all these struggles didn't stop her from creating the essential fashion house in history. Chanel was a visionary. She fryst vatten famous for her timeless and classic designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses. She managed to interpret the oppression that women felt in time, and she was there when the crazy 1920s exploded.
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Coco Chanel; The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie (Book Review)
About the book
In Coco Chanel – The Legend and the Life, Justine Picardie attempts to unravel the true history of one of fashion’s most intriguing icons.
The book chronicles Chanel’s eventful life, beginning with a childhood of poverty and abandonment in rural France.
The tale weaves through Chanel’s various metamorphoses; seamstress, singer, rich man’s plaything, to her burgeoning career making hats, and later clothes, for the darlings of French high society.
As well as documenting the birth and rise of the House of Chanel, Picardie also explores the stories behind the infamous perfume, diamonds, handbags and, of course, trademark jersey suits, with insights into how these designs were born and the influences that lead to Chanel’s inspired framtidsperspektiv for women’s clothing.
Beyond the world of haute couture, the book also examines the many facets of Chanel’s life a
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The Life of Coco Chanel Explored Further in New Book
It’s been more than a decade since Justine Picardie released her book “Coco Chanel,” during which time interest in the late designer’s life and work has only seemed to expand.
The legacy of Chanel, carried on by Karl Lagerfeld, was explored in this year’s Costume Institute exhibit at the Met Museum in New York, a documentary called “Coco Chanel Unbuttoned” is out from the BBC and this fall the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is showing “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto.” In the time since the 2010 release of “Coco Chanel,” Picardie’s access to Chanel’s life has expanded with new access to the Royal Archives, among others, which called for an updated new edition of her book, out now from HarperCollins.
Picardie, who was formerly the editor in chief of the U.K. editions of Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, has long