Chanel and Her World
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865651590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A designer of authentic beauty" according to MJM. This is a substantial book in both size and pictorial content.As an ideal complement to the Metropolitan Museum's Chanel exhibit last spring (2005), this book actually exceeds - and outlasts - the exhibit itself.More than just an intelligent, fascinating woman, Chanel was a fascin. "Entertaining book with mostly pictures" according to Gromer. I was looking for a book showing photos of Chanel's clothing designs and styles. This book focuses more on her life and the celebrities and cultural/social trends of her era (spanning 1910's - 1950's), so if you are looking to see her clothing styles and designs, you will be disap. She loved the book and deemed it a keeper LJN Christmas gift for my daughter. She loved the book and deemed it a keeper. We donate a lot of books that we fine just ok to the library and keep only books that we really liked and would look at or read more than once. This was a keeper
Elle recoit le prix Goncourt en 1966 pour le roman Oublier Palerme. . 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
Charles-Roux's analysis may occasionally have more style than substance, but this balance would hardly have bothered Chanel, for whom style was always everything. She shares many of them in this massive biography, which follows Chanel's journey from her birth on August 20, 1883, to her days as a shop girl in Moulins to her triumph in, and transformation of, the fashion world. (The text remains the same.) As a former editor-in-chief of French Vogue for 12 years and a longtime friend of Chanel, Charles-Roux collected a lot of photos of the fashion icon and of those allowed into her inner circle. . The book also provides insight into how Chanel's style developed and how its evolution was related to her defiance of the social con
Chanel knew and collaborated with the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Viscontieven as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of elegance. 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. She made the first couture perfumeNo. The staggering collection of photographs amassed by the author over decades of friendship with Chanel sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age. A model pictorial biography.” New York Times This Chanel bio