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Coco Chanel (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
Linda Simon
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Description for Coco Chanel (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
Paperback. Simon gives us a new biography of the iconic, iconoclastic fashion designer Coco Chanel. Drawing upon rich archival sources, Coco Chanel provides a lively, clear-eyed account of the life and work of a woman whose influence transcends the world of fashion. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 208 pages, 38 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKB; AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
To call Coco Chanel a fashion designer hardly captures her social and cultural significance. An iconoclastic entrepreneur, she rebelled against and manipulated gender expectations of her time. With her famous little black dress, her loose jersey sweaters belted jauntily at the waist, her svelte unadorned gowns, Chanel changed women's silhouettes, and she became known as a champion of women's freedom. Chanel, legend has it, changed not only the shape of clothing, but the narrative of women's lives. From 1913, when she first opened a hat shop in the resort town of Deauville, until her death in 1971, Chanel sold more ... Read more
To call Coco Chanel a fashion designer hardly captures her social and cultural significance. An iconoclastic entrepreneur, she rebelled against and manipulated gender expectations of her time. With her famous little black dress, her loose jersey sweaters belted jauntily at the waist, her svelte unadorned gowns, Chanel changed women's silhouettes, and she became known as a champion of women's freedom. Chanel, legend has it, changed not only the shape of clothing, but the narrative of women's lives. From 1913, when she first opened a hat shop in the resort town of Deauville, until her death in 1971, Chanel sold more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898593
SKU
V9781861898593
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About Linda Simon
Linda Simon is Professor of English at Skidmore College, New York. She is the author of The Biography of Alice B. Toklas (Bison, 1991), Genuine Reality: A Life of William James (Harcourt, 1998) and Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray (Meriner, 2005).
Reviews for Coco Chanel (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
'For those who want an up-to-date bio that's swift and savvy, there is Linda Simon's Chanel. It's a slim volume, but even here we get details we don't get elsewhere, including a full chapter on the musical Coco, which opened on Broadway in 1969 starring Katharine Hepburn (tellingly, Chanel's first choice for the role was the much younger ... Read more