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Chanel and Her World Paperback – 1979
Author: Visit ‘s Edmonde Charles-Roux Page ID: 0865650241

From Publishers Weekly

If style never goes out of fashion, then a biography of Coco Chanel shouldn’t either. First published 25 years ago and out of print for the last decade, Charles-Roux’s book was originally all black and white, but large color photos and illustrations have been added for this reissue, and the layout has been redesigned as well. (The text remains the same.) As a former editor-in-chief of French Vogue for 12 years and a longtime friend of Chanel, Charles-Roux collected a lot of photos of the fashion icon and of those allowed into her inner circle. She shares many of them in this massive biography, which follows Chanel’s journey from her birth on August 20, 1883, to her days as a shop girl in Moulins to her triumph in, and transformation of, the fashion world. The book also provides insight into how Chanel’s style developed and how its evolution was related to her defiance of the social conventions of her time; Coco was a great friend of the Cubists and she shared many of their avante-garde tastes. Charles-Roux’s analysis may occasionally have more style than substance, but this balance would hardly have bothered Chanel, for whom style was always everything. And with a Chanel exhibition coming up at the Metropolitan Museum in May, 2005, it seems unlikely that this book will every be out of print for so long again.
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Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)

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Paperback: 256 pagesPublisher: The Vendome Press; Reprint edition (1979)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0865650241ISBN-13: 978-0865650244 Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #341,468 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #199 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Transportation > Railroads #674 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Arts & Literature > Artists, Architects & Photographers #4611 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography & Video

This is a substantial book in both size and pictorial content.

As an ideal complement to the Metropolitan Museum’s Chanel exhibit last spring (2005), this book actually exceeds – and outlasts – the exhibit itself.

More than just an intelligent, fascinating woman, Chanel was a fascinating opportunist in the way that she manipulated and transformed the trends of her times (and many men of her times), turning them to her advantage. She was as much a businesswoman and social and cultural politician as a fashion designer, and to see her in this book’s big, beautiful photographs, modeling her own creations, is an inspiration to any woman who disbelieves that humble beginnings and a less than conventionally perfect countenance can lead to high achievement.

The best photograph of all – the photograph that tells all – graces the book’s cover: one look at that face of intelligence, intensity, self-composure, and elegance, and one knows what the book is all about (philosophically as well as biographically) even before opening it.

The classic Chanel endures as a legend and lesson in the achievement of authentic beauty, i.e., defined by compelling creation rather than passive, taken-for-granted standards of acceptance.

I was looking for a book showing photos of Chanel’s clothing designs and styles. This book focuses more on her life and the celebrities and cultural/social trends of her era (spanning 1910’s – 1950’s), so if you are looking to see her clothing styles and designs, you will be disappointed as there isn’t that much coverage of the actual clothing. However, it is a very absorbing, encyclopedic, pictorial collection of the people of Chanel’s time and you can spend many a lazy Sunday afternoon thoroughly exploring les temps perdus. There are many many pictures of Coco Chanel – like Madonna, she looks different every few years, a real chameleon. It retails at $65, so the $37 price is a good deal. It is a heavy thick book with glossy pages.

Visually pleIDg and well-written, here is a book that would surely please Mademoiselle Chanel if she were still with us.

Fans of Chanel and "Fashionistas" alike will undoubtedly be delighted with this big, beautiful book and its vast number of Chanel photos, which document Coco’s personal world of fashion.

Linda Painchaud-Steinman, Park Edge Books

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