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Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend She Herself Created

Edmonde Charles-Roux

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Summary

Edmonde Charles-Roux follows Coco Chanel from an orphanage childhood and work as a milliner to the head of a major fashion business. The biography examines her changes to women’s dress, her relationships with artists and her affair with a German spy. It contrasts the life she lived with the public image she carefully shaped.

  • SourceHachette Australia, Chanel by Edmonde Charles-Roux · MacLehose Press; exact ISBN 9781906694241; description

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Useful for examining the link between a founder’s public image and the history behind it. Charles-Roux follows the fashion business and personal relationships that helped make Chanel’s name.

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    Charles-Roux’s biography follows Chanel’s life and fashion business while examining the gap between her public image and her personal history.
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