Coco Chanel : an intimate life / Lisa Chaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaney, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971.

Chanel, Coco.

Fashion designers--France--Biography.

Fashion designers.

France.

Women fashion designers--France--Biography.

Women fashion designers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 448 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2011.

Summary:

Unearthing an astonishing life, this remarkable biography shows how, more than any previous designer, Chanel became synonymous with a rebellious and progressive style. While uniquely highlighting the designer's far-reaching influence on the modern arts, Chaney's fascinating biography explores the origins, creative power, and secret suffering of this exceptional and often misread woman. 400 pp. 25,000 print.

Contents:

You're proud, you'll suffer

Forebears

The bad one

The lost years

Things that I should be and which I am not

A rich man's game

Captive mistress

Arthur Capel

Refashioning Paris

The rite of spring

The end of an Epoque

Master of her art

The war bans the bizarre

Remember that you're a woman

Alone

Beginning again

The strangest and most brilliant years

Dmitri Pavlovich

the lucky N05

Entirely in white and covered in pearls

Reverdy

At the center

Bend'or

The crash

Schiap had lots of it but it was bad

War

Survival

Von Dincklage

Exile

Return: 1954

I prefer disaster to nothingness

I only hear my heart on the stairs

Those on whom legends are built are their legends.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780670023097

0670023094

OCLC:

707969073