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Named Person: | Coco Chanel |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amy De La Haye |
ISBN: | 9781851776436 1851776435 |
OCLC Number: | 1001654715 |
Description: | 128 s. : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Chanel: subject and media -- Early years: Chanel modes: millinery -- 1913-19: Evolution of a fashion empire -- The 1920s: modernity and materiality -- The 1930s: fantasy and diversification -- 1939-53: War and the aftermath -- 1954-1971: Comeback -- After Chanel: Karl Lagerfeld -- Chronology -- Chanel at the V & A. |
Responsibility: | Amy de la Haye. |
Abstract:
In this beautifully illustrated book, dress historian Amy de la Haye celebrates Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel as the couturiere who changed the way stylish women everywhere dress, then and now. She examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s to the present day as it continues to prosper.
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