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 Chanel's 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 Chanel's 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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