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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Coco Chanel; Coco Chanel |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edmonde Charles-Roux |
ISBN: | 9781906694241 1906694249 |
OCLC Number: | 432254730 |
Notes: | Includes notes and index. |
Description: | 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgements. Foreword. Origins 1792-1883. Gabrielle's youth 1884-1903. A False Start 1903-1905. The Keepers and the Kept 1906-1914. The Foundations of an Empire 1914-1919. The Slavic Period 1920-1925. A Victorian Illusion and its Aftermath 1925-1933. Of Divers Dances 1933-1940. The German Period 1940-1945. First Epilogue 1945-1952. Second Epilogue 1953-1971. Notes. Index. |
Responsibility: | Edmonde Charles-Roux ; translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux. |
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'Chanel's life was extraordinary, varied, full, perverse and like all good stories, full of dramatic reversals and successes' Margaret Drabble. * Margaret Drabble * 'A fascinating, intimate, merciless, but ultimately sympathetic portrait... Even for those with only the slightest interest in fashion this is a beautifully written, highly entertaining biography' Guardian. * Guardian * 'This biography delves far into the past, unraveling the mysteries that Chanel herself worked to create...it's a beautifully honest yet surprisingly unforgiving portrait of a woman often outshone by her own legend' Observer. * Observer * Read more...

