{"product_id":"coco-chanel-the-legend-and-the-life-isbn-9780061963858","title":"Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life","description":"In \u003cem\u003eCoco Chanel,\u003c\/em\u003e Justine Picardie peels away the layers of romance and myth surrounding the legend of Coco Chanel, revealing the true history of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Picardie's unprecedented research illuminates Chanel’s path from little-known seamstress to the aristocracy of style in this stunning look at the fashion icon, illustrated with more than sixty color and black-and-white images. | \u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eSleek. Chic. Notoriously guarded. Welcome to the secret world of Gabrielle Chanel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrowing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeared 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. Justine Picardie brings Gabrielle Chanel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Almost 30 years after her death—and a full century since she opened a milliner’s shop on 21 Rue Cambon in Paris—Coco Chanel remains very much in the foreground of consciousness for the global brand that bears her name. It is a business based, even today, upon the propagation of her image. The darker facets of this process are subtly and carefully revealed by Justine Picardie in \u003cem\u003eCoco Chanel: The Legend and the Life\u003c\/em\u003e. This biography leaves you with the knowledge that, yes, Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into clothes that allowed freedom of movement. But there’s more to it than that. She also propagated a mode of dress that provided comfort with dignity; an important distinction.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating. . . . Intriguing reading. . . . In researching this book, Justine Picardie has shown as much doggedness in uncovering her subject’s life as Chanel did in disguising it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdwina Ings-Chambers, Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gripping. . . . In the deftest prose, Picardie lots one of the most extraordinary lives of the 20th Century. The book is lavishly illustrated, too, with images of iconic outfits and intimate photos from Chanel’s private albums.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elegant.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Captivating. . . . Wonderful photos and illustrations.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Picardie’s biography on Chanel is not only stunningly presented—it features photos, pictures and fashion drawings by Karl Lagerfeld on almost every page—but brilliantly written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I thought there was nothing more to say about Coco Chanel, but Picardie’s recent book does a great job of depicting a difficult and compelling 20th-century icon.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Betts, The Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Picardie reveals a fascinating insight into the woman who created the Little Black Dress and who freed women from the constraint of corsets. . . . By using the archives of the House of Chanel, of course, but also those of the Duke of Westminster and Winston Churchill, Picardie has managed to create a truly three-dimensional portrait of an enormously complex woman.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Black, The Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889287753957,"sku":"NP9780061963858","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061963858.jpg?v=1730230932","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/coco-chanel-the-legend-and-the-life-isbn-9780061963858","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}