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Chanel

A Woman of Her Own

Axel Madsen
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Pages
364
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Distribution

About

A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne's business and private lives to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of feminine style to a very rich woman with a closet full of dark secrets.

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  • History & Criticism
  • Design
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Artists, Architects, Photographers
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Rich & Famous
  • France
  • Europe
  • History
  • General
  • 20th Century
  • Modern

Reviews

"Chanel: A Woman of Her Own takes the reader behind the coromandel veneers of Chanel's life."
The New York Times Book Review
"In this full-length, very readable biography of Coco, as the legendary French designer was called, Madsen does a commendable job of ferreting out the seeming truth of a woman apparently as deft at fabricating her life as she was with a needle and thread."
Publishers Weekly

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