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Chronicles Chanel's timeless fashion revolution.

If you're enchanted by fashion history and the iconic legacy of Coco Chanel, you'll find this book a treasure trove. It's not just a reading experience but a visual journey through the elegance and innovation that Chanel brought to the world of fashion. Perfect for fashion aficionados and those who appreciate the marriage of art and history.

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ISBN: 9780300107135
Date of Publication: 2005-06-11
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Art
Goodreads rating: 4.35
(rated by 115 readers)

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This splendid book examines the legacy of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, one of the twentieth century's great icons of style. While Chanel mythologized her glamorous life through relentless self-invention, the bare facts of her biography are no less worthy than her legend: born of a poor family in the provinces and raised in a convent, she was an entertainer and the mistress of men of impeccable social standing, and she began her career not as a dressmaker but as a milliner. Chanel's enduring influence is necessarily based on the long shadow cast over fashion by her maison couture. Chanel examines the history of the House of Chanel both thematically and chronologically, introducing ideas and elements of biography as they were expressed in her collections. Period examples are juxtaposed with the work of Karl Lagerfeld, who, beginning in 1983, just over ten years after Chanel's death, reinvented and revolutionized the House's identity. It is in Lagerfeld's masterful and often irreverent interpretations of Chanel's work, as well as his mixing of influences from high and low culture, that the historic importance of Chanel and the resonance of her image as the independent, elegant modern woman are both defined and reasserted for the contemporary world.
 

Chronicles Chanel's timeless fashion revolution.

If you're enchanted by fashion history and the iconic legacy of Coco Chanel, you'll find this book a treasure trove. It's not just a reading experience but a visual journey through the elegance and innovation that Chanel brought to the world of fashion. Perfect for fashion aficionados and those who appreciate the marriage of art and history.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.