| Chanel and Her World |  | Author: Edmonde Charles-roux
Publisher: Vendome Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1013267
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0865650241
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.920924
EAN: 9780865650244
ASIN: 0865650241
Publication Date: 1979
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Condition: Superficial creasing to spine, moderate wear to front cover. Binding is firm. Pages are clean.
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Book Description
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: 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 slacks, costume jewelry, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first couture perfume-No. 5-which remains the most popular scent ever created.
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. Chanel knew and collaborated with the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti-even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of elegance. The staggering collection of photographs amassed by the over decades of friendship with Chanel sheds new light on one of the great stories of the modern age. AUTHOR BIO: Edmonde Charles-Roux began her journalistic career at Elle and ultimately became editor-in-chief of French Vogue. She has published three novels, among them To Forget Palermo (Oublier Palerme), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1966.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 CHANEL June 18, 2008
I love the book I purchased, but would love another Chanel book covering all of her designs. Would you plese recommend a book that has mostly colored photographs of her design? WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT M Miller
What a BEAUTIFUL book! A true treasure... April 6, 2008
Perfectly perfect. Everyone should have this book, and give it as a gift! Wow.
All about Coco Chanel & her world! May 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I paid almost full price for this book and I don't regret it. I found this coffee table book just lovely.
I am not a fashion expert. I'm just a reader interested in interesting people, so I was looking for a book on CHANEL that gave a brief background on her life and photos of Coco and some of her fashions. Well, this book seemed to fit the bill---for me. I was not disappointed.
I have enjoyed this book very much and it sits on my living room table , ----for the book to be browsed by others.
 Entertaining book with mostly pictures April 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 disappointed as there isn't that much coverage of the actual clothing. However, it is a very absorbing, encyclopedic, pictorial collection of the people of Chanel's time and you can spend many a lazy Sunday afternoon thoroughly exploring les temps perdus. There are many many pictures of Coco Chanel - like Madonna, she looks different every few years, a real chameleon. It retails at $65, so the $37 Amazon price is a good deal. It is a heavy thick book with glossy pages.
 Chanel and Her World April 6, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was disappointed in the text. I guess from the title I should have expected some world history. The story line is somewhat incoherent and doesn't seem to present her life very well. I had to use the index to find a couple lines of reference to her "Boy", a romance started in the story and then dropped, only to be finished much later and with no real detail. Either Chanel was very closed mouth about a lot of her life or the author didn't know her that well. Also, there are a lot of pictures of rather irrelevant items. I wouldn't purchase it again.
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