Книга: Edmonde Charles-Roux «The World of Coco Chanel: Friends, Fashion, Fame»

The World of Coco Chanel: Friends, Fashion, Fame

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. Chanel knew instinctively that the road to success lay in being absolutely at one with her own time. And what a time! The era of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Visconti - all of whom 'Coco' knew and collaborated with, even as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating...

Издательство: "Thames and Hudson Limited" (2005)

Формат: 210x265, 384 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-500-51216-6

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Chanel. Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legendShe 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… — Quercus/MacLehose Press, - Подробнее...20091471бумажная книга

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