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Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today-and for nearly the last hundred years-we all see some version of Gabrielle �Coco� Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel's role in the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined the historical currents around her. Here, with unprecedented detail and ambition-and through fascinating, thoroughly researched portraits of Chanel's lovers and friends-Rhonda Garelick shows us the Chanel who conquered the world: a woman who thirsted to create others in her image, who ruthlessly and innovatively borrowed from her famous (and infamous) intimates, who understood the idea of branding and image well ahead of her time, who created �wearable personality.� This is Chanel at the nexus of history: a woman of daring, passion, and legendary vision, in a wonderful biography that gives her long-awaited due.
Hardcover:
9781400069521 | Random House Inc, September 30, 2014, cover price $35.00
Paperback:
9780812981858 | Random House Inc, July 14, 2015, cover price $20.00
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9781622315314 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 30, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Little black dresses.
Hardcover:
9781419715884 | Harry N Abrams Inc, February 10, 2015, cover price $19.95
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9781419713491 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 16, 2014, cover price $35.00
Product Description: A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal BalenciagaOne of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior, "the master of us all."Despite his extraordinary impact, Balenciaga was a man hidden from view...read more
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9780374298739 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 5, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal BalenciagaWhen Cristóbal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times.
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9780374534387 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 11, 2014), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A sparkling life of the monumental fashion designer Cristóbal BalenciagaOne of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga was, said Christian Dior, "the master of us all.
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9781908968920 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, November 19, 2013, cover price $50.00
9781901285987 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, April 1, 2009, cover price $18.00
Hardcover:
9782080201522 | Flammarion, October 1, 2013, cover price $95.00
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9780670023097 | Viking Pr, November 10, 2011, cover price $27.95
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9780143122128 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 27, 2012), cover price $18.00
âFrom this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.â âAndré MalrauxCoco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric, elevated the waistline, and created bell-bottom trousers, trench coats, and turtleneck sweaters. In the 1920s, when Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms, she had amassed a personal fortune of $15 million and went on to create an empire.Jean Cocteau once said of Chanel that she had the head of âa little black swan.â And, added Colette, âthe heart of a little black bull.â At the start of World War II, Chanel closed down her couture house and went across the street to live at the Hôtel Ritz. Picasso, her friend, called her âone of the most sensible women in Europe.â She remained at the Ritz for the duration of the war, and after, went on to Switzerland. For more than half a century, Chanelâs life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in vagueness and rumor, mystery and myth. Neither Chanel nor her many biographers have ever told the full story of these years. Now Hal Vaughan, in this explosive narrativeâpart suspense thriller, part wartime portraitâfully pieces together the hidden years of Gabrielle âCocoâ Chanelâs life, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of World War II. Vaughan reveals the truth of Chanelâs long-whispered collaboration with Hitlerâs high-ranking officials in occupied Paris from 1940 to 1944. He writes in detail of her decades-long affair with Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, âSpatzâ (âsparrowâ in English), described in most Chanel biographies as being an innocuous, English-speaking tennis player, playboy, and harmless dupeâa loyal German soldier and diplomat serving his mother country and not a member of the Nazi party. In Vaughanâs absorbing, meticulously researched book, Dincklage is revealed to have been a Nazi master spy and German military intelligence agent who ran a spy ring in the Mediterranean and in Paris and reported directly to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, right hand to Hitler.The book pieces together how Coco Chanel became a German intelligence operative; how and why she was enlisted in a number of spy missions; how she escaped arrest in France after the war, despite her activities being known to the Gaullist intelligence network; how she fled to Switzerland for a nine-year exile with her lover Dincklage. And how, despite the French courtâs opening a case concerning Chanelâs espionage activities during the war, she was able to return to Paris at age seventy and triumphantly resurrect and reinvent herselfâand rebuild what has become the iconic House of Chanel.
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9780307592637 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 16, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: âFrom this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.
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9780307475916 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 7, 2012), cover price $16.95
Product Description: The most personal account of the life and work of legendary designer Coco Chanel ever told. Coco Chanelâs life and work have been recounted often in print and film-everything except the details of her most private self: her fondness for symbolism and poetry, the men she loved, her family, and in particular her nephew Andre Palasse, whom she raised like a son...read more
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9782080301628 | Flammarion, September 13, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The most personal account of the life and work of legendary designer Coco Chanel ever told.
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9780061917318, titled "Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty: A Fashion Fairy Tale Memoir" | Harpercollins, February 1, 2011, cover price $21.99
Product Description: This ultimate Chanel book, Jean Leymarie's classic monograph on Coco Chanel is back in print once more. Completely revised and updated since its publication in 1989, this book provides a general overview of Chanel's creative history, from her early days, when she mingled with Jean Cocteau, Igor Stravinsky and Luchino Visconti, to the development of her legacy after her death by Karl Lagerfeld...read more
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9780500515532 | Gardners Books, October 25, 2010, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This ultimate Chanel book, Jean Leymarie's classic monograph on Coco Chanel is back in print once more.
Hardcover:
9780007317615 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 16, 2010, cover price $42.30
Paperback:
9780062074171 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 23, 2011), cover price $23.99
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9780715637852 | Gardners Books, June 24, 2010, cover price $28.70
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9781906548100 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, April 1, 2010, cover price $29.95
Product Description: âFor lovers of fashion and Art Deco ⦠a must-readâ- Irish Tatler An extraordinary story, Paul Poiret's 1931 autobiography describes the meteoric rise of a draper's son to become the "King of Fashion." From his humble Parisian childhood to his debut as a couturier to his experiences during WWI, Poiret reveals all in this captivating tale...read more
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9781851775644 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, May 1, 2009, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: âFor lovers of fashion and Art Deco ⦠a must-readâ- Irish Tatler An extraordinary story, Paul Poiret's 1931 autobiography describes the meteoric rise of a draper's son to become the "King of Fashion.
Hardcover:
9780810996946 | Harry N Abrams Inc, January 15, 2011, cover price $50.00
9780847808748 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 1987, cover price $95.00
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