Chanel is a luxury company that focuses on high fashion and ready-made clothes, luxury products, and accessories and the person behind the company, Coco Chanel really is a mystery and a wonder wrapped in a petite frame of a woman with a spirit of steel. Adding fresh insights and discoveries, it comes complete with a compelling array of previously unseen images from the Chanel archives. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

O yes, now that I have skimmed some other reviews, I realized what it was that was bothering me-- there was so much focus on all of her affairs, and barely any on her actual contributions to the fashion world. This book takes us back to when Coco was just a child and explains how her life developed from there.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s High Command in the Hotel Ritz. This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive compensation if you make a purchase using this link. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the greatest designer in the world.

From being abandoned by her father to building her empire, and then an apparent nazi spy, this woman was many layered.

She holds a BA in Journalism, Film and Media and a Post Graduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. This book is written as well and as thrillingly as any number of fiction novels I have read lately, but it's all true. However, as newly declassified information reveals, she did not supply any information in exchange for this favour. Men did dominate her financially to some extent especially when it came to her famous perfume Chanel No.

I loved the flow of this book sticking to an easy timeline but going back into depths for certain areas. Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to orphanage after their mother’s death.Simon’s lively book is a clear-eyed perspective on a woman whose influence and legend transcend the world of fashion.