Chanel: Her Life - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is one of the 20th century's most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Yet those who attempt to understand her life are confronted by countless myths, half-truths, and rumors.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>As Justine Picardie shows in this elegant book, the figure who introduced simplicity into women's wardrobes was far from simple ... the Chanel uncovered by Picardie is a storyteller. She spun her own myth, but each of her creations was a story as well and each contains a story. -Frances Wilson, <i>The Telegraph</i></strong></p><p>This is the long-awaited reprint of Justine Picardie's acclaimed 2010 illustrated biography of Coco Chanel (1883-1971), one of the 20th century's most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Whoever attempts to understand Chanel's life is confronted by countless myths, half-truths and rumors. In this book Picardie discovers the woman behind the legend, and tells Chanel's story with a flair and clarity of which Coco herself would approve. <i>Chanel: Her Life</i> explores every facet of Chanel's universe: her fascinating private life as well as the famous icons of her fashion empire: the tweed jacket, the little black dress, N° 5 perfume, the pearls, the camellia. <p/>The result is a comprehensive biography that reveals Chanel's style to be the outcome of rigorous elegance, resolute self-belief and a determinedly unconventional stance. Picardie was granted access to Chanel's archives and is the first author to have examined previously undiscovered private archives in the United Kingdom and France; and this unique knowledge underpins <i>Chanel: Her Life</i>. The book, designed and with drawings by Karl Lagerfeld, and with a new foreword by Picardie celebrating Lagerfeld's extraordinary time at the House of Chanel, is the definitive biography of the tantalizingly elusive Coco Chanel. <p/>Editor-in-chief of <i>Harper's Bazaar UK</i> and <i>Town & Country UK</i>, <b>Justine Picardie</b> (born 1961) is an acclaimed British novelist, fashion writer and biographer. Her books include <i>If the Spirit Moves You</i> (2001), <i>Wish I May</i> (2004), <i>Daphne</i> (2008) and <i>Inge Morath: On Style</i> (2016). Her 2010 biography of Coco Chanel was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards.</p>
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