Chanel
Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created
$58.83
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2011
Summary
Now the subject of a major sell-out exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum
She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth?
Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - Gabrielle Chanel fought constantly to escape the mundane. She r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781906694241 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1906694249 |
| Author: | Nancy Amphoux, Edmonde Charles-Roux |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 134mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
‘Chanel’s life was extraordinary, varied, full, perverse and like all good stories, full of dramatic reversals and successes’ Margaret Drabble. * Margaret Drabble *
‘A fascinating, intimate, merciless, but ultimately sympathetic portrait… Even for those with only the slightest interest in fashion this is a beautifully written, highly entertaining biography’ Guardian. * Guardian *
‘This biography delves far into the past, unraveling the mysteries that Chanel herself worked to create…it’s a beautifully honest yet surprisingly unforgiving portrait of a woman often outshone by her own legend’ Observer. * Observer *
About The Author
Nancy Amphoux
Edmonde Charles-Roux served as a nurse and a Resistance worker in World War II, before beginning a career as a journalist writing for Elle and Paris Match. For twelve years she was Editor-in-Chief of the French edition of Vogue. She has written another biography, Don Juan of Austria, and two novels, Elle, Adrienne and To Forget Palermo, which won the Prix Goncourt.
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