{"product_id":"chanel-and-her-world-edmonde-charles-roux-9780865651593","title":"Chanel and Her World: Friends, Fashion, and Fame","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling, most abundantly illustrated biography available of fashion icon Coco Chanel, written by Edmonde Charles-Roux, her close friend and chosen official biographer. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A model pictorial biography.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gabrielle \"Coco\" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other, arguably the most influential designer of the 20th century, whose creations remain as popular today as when they were introduced a century ago. She invented modern, chic clothing for women: she freed them from corsets, bobbed their hair, put them in simple bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, the exquisitely comfortable and elegant knit suit, the \"little black dress,\" and the now-ubiquitous quilted handbag. She made the first couture perfume―No. 5―which remains the most popular scent ever created. And she knew and collaborated with the leading creative minds of her day: the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti―as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this beautiful volume, the glorious life and world of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through lively text and a staggering collection of photographs amassed by author Edmonde Charles-Roux--the dear friend whom Chanel chose as her biographer--shedding new light on one of the great stories of the modern age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This Chanel biography is as elegantly turned out as its subject.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmonde Charles-Roux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865651590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865651593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vendome Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.50h x 8.20w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2005 pg. 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2005 pg. 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/07\/2010 pg. 31","brand":"Edmonde Charles-Roux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051484672255,"sku":"9780865651593","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06ffeba3-704c-48eb-adda-06a7a05a0813.jpg?v=1685013378","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chanel-and-her-world-edmonde-charles-roux-9780865651593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}