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Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created

Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created

by Edmonde Charles-Roux (Author), Nancy Amphoux (Translator)

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Synopsis

She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth? Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - Gabrielle Chanel fought constantly to escape the mundane. She rose from back-street milliner to become the head of a vast business empire, and socialised with Picasso, Stravinsky and Cocteau. Edmonde Charles-Roux also reveals one of Chanel's best-kept secrets - her love affair with a prodigal German spy. Chanel's legend did not fade with her death, and nor has the mark of sheer elegance that she left upon the world of fashion. This is the living woman behind the vibrant legend.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: MACLEHOSE PRESS
Published: 04 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 1906694249
ISBN 13: 9781906694241

Media Reviews
'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 *
Author Bio

Edmonde Charles-Roux served as a nurse and a Resistance worker in World War II, before beginning a career as a journalist writing for Elle and Paris Match. For twelve years she was Editor-in-Chief of the French edition of Vogue. She has written another biography, Don Juan of Austria, and two novels, Elle, Adrienne and To Forget Palermo, which won the Prix Goncourt.
Nancy Amphoux is the translator of many major biographies, including those of Tolstoy, Turgenev and Pushkin.