Coco: Life and Loves of Gabrielle Chanel

by Frances Kennett (Author), Frances Kennett (Author), Natacha Ledwidge (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.29

  This is a biography of Coco , the famous fashion designer, described by Bernard Shaw as one of the two most influential women of the twentieth century , which includes photographs and illustrations of her creations. Chanel changed the way women dressed and brought them a new liberation. Her reign lasted six decades and she became a millionairess, but her private life was one of unhappiness and disappointment. Her lover was killed in a car crash and her husband-to-be dropped dead in front of her. When she died, she felt a failure. The author has also written A History of Perfume , A History of Fashion , Collecting Twentieth Century Fashion and The Secrets of the Couturiers .