Front cover image for Chanel : her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created

Chanel : her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created

She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No. 5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth?
Print Book, English, 2009
MacLehose, London, 2009
Biographies
428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
9781906694241, 1906694249
432254730
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Forewordxv
Origins 1792-1883
1(30)
Gabrielle's Youth 1884-1903
31(32)
A False Start 1903-1905
63(32)
The Keepers and The Kept 1906-1914
95(52)
The Foundations of an Empire 1914-1919
147(48)
The Slavic Period 1920-1925
195(62)
A Victorian Illusion and Its Aftermath 1925-1933
257(38)
Of Divers Dances 1933-1940
295(40)
The German Period 1940-1945
335(46)
First Epilogue 1945-1952381(12)
Second Epilogue 1953-1971393(14)
Notes407(8)
Index415
Includes notes and index