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Chanel: An Intimate Life

Chanel: An Intimate Life

Lisa Chaney

9781905490363

Fig Tree


Individual designers; Fashion & textiles: design; Biography; Biography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment

Hardback

512 pages

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In Chanel: An Intimate Life , acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era. Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story . ( Evening Standard ). An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer . ( Vogue ). Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The Sunday Times , the Spectator and the Guardian . She is the author of two previous biographies: Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie .

By:   Lisa Chaney
Imprint:   Fig Tree
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 44mm,  Width: 240mm,  Spine: 162mm
Weight:   864g
ISBN:  

9781905490363


ISBN 10:   1905490364
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   November 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The Sunday Times, the Spectator and the Guardian. She is the author of two previous biographies: Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie.


Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story Evening Standard

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