Chanel. An Intimate Life

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 496 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A provocative and revealing account of Chanel that explores her dalliances with bisexuality, drugs and an affair with a Nazi spy. 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 Chaneys Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer. Vogue Chaney is adept at elucidating Chanels paradoxical character. A nuanced account of a contradictory, complex, quite extraordinary life. The Times Higher Education Supplement Chaney ably explores the complexities and inner life of her subjec.t The Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9780141036854