Coco Chanel, an intimate life, Lisa Chaney
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Coco Chanel, an intimate life, Lisa Chaney
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
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platesillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Coco Chanel
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Lisa Chaney
Sub title
an intimate life
Summary
By the end of the First World War, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel had revolutionised women's dress. Highlighting the designer's connections with modernism, this book explores the creative power and the secret suffering of this exceptional woman
Table Of Contents
You're proud, you'll suffer -- Forebears -- The bad one -- The lost years -- Things that I should be and which I am not -- A rich man's game -- Captive mistress -- Arthur Capel -- Refashioning Paris -- The rite of spring -- The end of an Epoque -- Master of her art -- The war bans the bizarre -- Remember that you're a woman -- Alone -- Beginning again -- The strangest and most brilliant years -- Dmitri Pavlovich -- the lucky N05 -- Entirely in white and covered in pearls -- Reverdy -- At the center -- Bend'or -- The crash -- Schiap had lots of it but it was bad -- War -- Survival -- Von Dincklage -- Exile -- Return: 1954 -- I prefer disaster to nothingness -- I only hear my heart on the stairs -- Those on whom legends are built are their legends
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