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Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life | Justine Picardie
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Sleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel. The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairy tale. Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanels early years in a convent orphanage and her flight into unconventional adulthood, Justine Picardie explores what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanels last surviving friends, employees and relatives, it also unravels her coded language and symbols, and traces the influence of her formative years on her legendary style. Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-seven, but her legacy lives on. Drawing on unprecedented research, Justine Picardie brings her fascinating, enigmatic subject out of hiding and uncovers the consequences of what Chanel covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and myth in a story that reveals the true heart of fashion.
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Coco Chanel has always fascinated me...not just her designs.. but as a woman, during WWII. This was a decent look at her that spans her entire life with photos and copies of letters she wrote. A very easy and interesting read. #bookspin @thearomaofbooks

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"I imposed black; it's still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around."—Coco Chanel, born on this date in 1883.

Justine Picardie's Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life is essential reading for anyone who adores the double C.

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