Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life - Hardcover

Picardie, Justine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061963852 ISBN 13: 9780061963858

Verlag: It Books, 2010

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Book by Picardie Justine

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A full-scale biography with 60 color illustrations peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion, in a book drawn from research in the Chanel archives and an exclusive interview with Chanel's successor, Karl Lagerfield. 50,000 first printing.

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Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel.

The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage, and her flight into unconventional adulthood, Justine Picardie explores what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon.

Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel's last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, it also unravels her coded language and symbols, and traces the influence of her formative years on her legendary style.

Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-seven. But her legacy lives on. Justine Picardie brings Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding and uncovers the consequences of what Chanel covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and myth in a story that reveals the true heart of fashion.

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• Verlag: It Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061963852
• ISBN 13: 9780061963858
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 343