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Gabrielle Chanel
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Author : Miren Arzalluz
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Gabrielle Chanel written by Miren Arzalluz and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Design categories.
A richly illustrated, in-depth retrospective of the life and work of fashion icon Gabrielle Chanel. A revolutionary fashion icon, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel can lay claim to inventing modern women’s fashion. At the beginning of the twentieth century, she stripped women of their corsets, bobbed their hair, and sent them out into the sun to get a tan. She introduced the little black dress, created women’s trousers, and produced the exquisitely made suits that became her trademark. She designed the first-ever couture perfume—No. 5—whose square-cut, cubist bottle became a symbol of art deco style, and which remains the most popular scent ever created. Her ideas on elegance and what it meant to be a modern woman created an immutable sense of style that still resonates today. Published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, Gabrielle Chanel chronicles the designer’s life from birth through the evolution of her timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase her designs, while essays from fashion historians complemented by rare archival documents, including pictures of Chanel herself, paint a portrait of the designer in her time. This volume is a must-have for all fashion fans and students.
Coco Chanel
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Author : Lisa Chaney
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Coco Chanel written by Lisa Chaney and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon. Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional journey-from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour- helped forge the idea of modern woman. Unearthing an astonishing life, this remarkable biography shows how, more than any previous designer, Chanel became synonymous with a rebellious and progressive style. Her numerous liaisons, whose poignant and tragic details have eluded all previous biographers, were the very stuff of legend. Witty and mesmerizing, she became muse, patron, or mistress to the century's most celebrated artists, including Picasso, Dalí, and Stravinsky. Drawing on newly discovered love letters and other records, Chaney's controversial book reveals the truth about Chanel's drug habit and lesbian affairs. And the question about Chanel's German lover during World War II (was he a spy for the Nazis?) is definitively answered. While uniquely highlighting the designer's far-reaching influence on the modern arts, Chaney's fascinating biography paints a deeper and darker picture of Coco Chanel than any so far. Movingly, it explores the origins, the creative power, and the secret suffering of this exceptional and often misread woman.
Coco
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Author : Frances Kennett
language : en
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Coco written by Frances Kennett and has been published by Victor Gollancz this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Costume design categories.
George Bernard Shaw said that the two most influential women of the twentieth century were Madame Curie and Mademoiselle Chanel. 'Coco' Chanel changed the way women dressed, brought them a new chic, and liberated them forever.
Mademoiselle
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Author : Rhonda K. Garelick
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Mademoiselle written by Rhonda K. Garelick and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century—throwing into dramatic relief an era of war, fashion, ardent nationalism, and earth-shaking change—here brilliantly treated, for the first time, with wide-ranging and incisive historical scrutiny. Coco Chanel transformed forever the way women dressed. Her influence remains so pervasive that to this day we can see her afterimage a dozen times while just walking down a single street: in all the little black dresses, flat shoes, costume jewelry, cardigan sweaters, and tortoiseshell eyeglasses on women of every age and background. A bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume is sold every three seconds. Arguably, no other individual has had a deeper impact on the visual aesthetic of the world. But how did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday style? How did she develop such vast, undying influence? And what does our ongoing love of all things Chanel tell us about ourselves? These are the mysteries that Rhonda K. Garelick unravels in Mademoiselle. Raised in rural poverty and orphaned early, the young Chanel supported herself as best she could. Then, as an uneducated nineteen-year-old café singer, she attracted the attention of a wealthy and powerful admirer and parlayed his support into her own hat design business. For the rest of Chanel’s life, the professional, personal, and political were interwoven; her lovers included diplomat Boy Capel; composer Igor Stravinsky; Romanov heir Grand Duke Dmitri; Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster; poet Pierre Reverdy; a Nazi officer; and several women as well. For all that, she was profoundly alone, her romantic life relentlessly plagued by abandonment and tragedy. Chanel’s ambitions and accomplishments were unparalleled. Her hat shop evolved into a clothing empire. She became a noted theatrical and film costume designer, collaborating with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Luchino Visconti. The genius of Coco Chanel, Garelick shows, lay in the way she absorbed the zeitgeist, reflecting it back to the world in her designs and in what Garelick calls “wearable personality”—the irresistible and contagious style infused with both world history and Chanel’s nearly unbelievable life saga. By age forty, Chanel had become a multimillionaire and a household name, and her Chanel Corporation is still the highest-earning privately owned luxury goods manufacturer in the world. In Mademoiselle, Garelick delivers the most probing, well-researched, and insightful biography to date on this seemingly familiar but endlessly surprising figure—a work that is truly both a heady intellectual study and a literary page-turner. Praise for Mademoiselle “A detailed, wry and nuanced portrait of a complicated woman that leaves the reader in a state of utterly satisfying confusion—blissfully mesmerized and confounded by the reality of the human spirit.”—The Washington Post “Writing an exhaustive biography of Chanel is a challenge comparable to racing a four-horse chariot. . . . This makes the assured confidence with which Garelick tells her story all the more remarkable.”—The New York Review of Books “Broadly focused and beautifully written.”—The Wall Street Journal
Gabrielle Chanel Revised Edition
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Author : Claude Arnaud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12
Gabrielle Chanel Revised Edition written by Claude Arnaud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12 with Fashion design categories.
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, 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 the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book.
Chanel
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Author : Lisa Chaney
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Chanel written by Lisa Chaney and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. 'Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story' Evening Standard 'An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer' Vogue Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The SundayTimes, the Spectator and the Guardian. She is the author of two previous biographies: Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie.
Coco Chanel
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Author : 50MINUTES.COM,
language : en
Publisher: 50Minutes.com
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Coco Chanel written by 50MINUTES.COM, and has been published by 50Minutes.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Design categories.
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Coco Chanel in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the work of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel. Chanel entered the fashion world at a time when most designers were men and womenswear was impractical and restrictive, but before long women across France were clamouring to get their hands on her comfortable yet elegant designs, which made use of looser cuts, removing the need for corsets, and new fabrics such as jersey. She also branched out into jewellery design, cosmetics and perfume, allowing her to fund her haute couture collections and paving the way for the business model of modern fashion brands. As an independent woman, innovative designer and brilliant entrepreneur, Coco Chanel changed the world of fashion forever. In just 50 minutes you will: • Find out about the young Gabrielle Chanel’s tireless efforts to work her way out of the poverty she was born into • Discover her greatest successes as a designer and the head of her own fashion empire, including her many stores and the launch of her Chanel No. 5 perfume • Learn about her darker moments, namely her collaboration with the Nazis, and her return to fashion later in life ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
The Allure Of Chanel Pushkin Classics
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Author : Paul Morand
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2023-09-06
The Allure Of Chanel Pushkin Classics written by Paul Morand and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of Coco Chanel's life, as told by her to Paul Morand Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel's death. Through Morand's transcription of their conversations, Chanel tells us about her friendship with Misia Sert, the men in her life - Boy Capel, the Duke of Westminster, artists such as Diaghilev, her philosophy of fashion and the story behind the legendary Number 5 perfume... The memories of Chanel told in her own words provide vivid sketches and portray the strength of Coco's character, leaving us with an extraordinary insight into Chanel the woman and the woman who created Chanel. ____________________ 'It's an interesting memoir because it's all about what she thinks not what she did.' David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary 'Morand was a citizen of the world, with a sharp eye and a neat turn of phrase' Tablet 'This enchanting, tiny book is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco. It's written in her voice ('that voice that gushed forth from her mouth like lava') and in her words ('those words that crackled like dried vines'), and though it's full of lies, omissions and contradictions, there's enough raw truth in it to reflect the extraordinary woman who was Chanel, even though glimpsed shard by shard in a broken mirror.' Spectator
Coco Chanel
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Author : Henry Gidel
language : fr
Publisher: Flammarion
Release Date : 2010-06-08T00:00:00+02:00
Coco Chanel written by Henry Gidel and has been published by Flammarion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-08T00:00:00+02:00 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elle a tout inventé : les tailleurs gansés, les accessoires qui deviennent bijoux, les tenues liberté pour des femmes irrévérencieuses, des parfums très parisiens qui ont conquis le monde, et surtout une mode, un style : le sien. Mais, un soir de 1971, l'une des indomptables du siècle tire sa révérence. Coco Chanel s'éteint seule dans sa chambre du Ritz. Ce monstre sacré, tellement inscrit dans son époque qu'on a parlé des années Chanel , a connu une existence tourmentée. Issue d'une famille de forains sans le sou, orpheline à douze ans, élevée sévèrement par des religieuses dans un couvent de Corrèze, rien ne prédisposait la jeune Gabrielle Chanel à devenir l'égérie des années folles. Rien n'annonçait que la couturière aux doigts d'or allait enflammer Deauville, Biarritz et Paris, révolutionner la silhouette des femmes, séduire l'intelligentsia de son temps, envoûter Cocteau, Colette, Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, ni même vivre des passions tumultueuses avec un cousin du Roi d'Angleterre, un neveu du tsar ou un poète surréaliste. Royale et généreuse, impétueuse et colérique, la petite auvergnate devenue étoile de la mode, ne manqua pas non plus d'accrocs dans la trame de sa vie : des drames sentimentaux à répétition, la surprenante fermeture de sa maison de couture à l'aube de la guerre puis son tout aussi inattendu retour à la mode à l'âge de soixante et onze ans, un caractère que ses admirateurs disaient affirmé mais les mauvaises langues infernal... c'est tout cela Coco Chanel. Un personnage hors du commun dont les revers passionnent autant que les succès, dont le nom est devenu tout un symbole. Riche de la consultation de sources inédites et d'entretiens avec d'importants témoins ayant connu Coco Chanel, Henry Gidel écrit, dans cette Grande Biographie, le roman vrai d'une femme qui a parcouru avec éclat les trois quarts du XXe siècle.
Coco Chanel
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Author : Justine Picardie
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Coco Chanel written by Justine Picardie and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Filled with fresh new research and never-before-seen photos, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time. But she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture; and what lies beneath her own glossy surface is darker, more mysterious, and far more intriguing. Uncovering remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel’s humble early years, Justine Picardie picks up the legend Chanel where it began—in orphanhood and poverty. Throwing new light on her passionate and, at times, dark relationships and providing profound insights into her connections with Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picasso, and Dali, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at what made Coco Chanel the strong-spirited and powerful presence she became. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel’s last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, the book also unravels her coded language and symbols and tracks 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 87, but her legacy lives on. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the world’s greatest designer. Adding fresh new insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives.