Bibliograph

Coco Chanel, an intimate life, Lisa Chaney

Type

Label

Coco Chanel, an intimate life, Lisa Chaney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-429) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coco Chanel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

707969073

Responsibility statement

Lisa Chaney

Sub title

an intimate life

Summary

Recounts the life of the famous designer, from her childhood as an orphan to her reign as the queen of the fashion world, highlighting lesser known aspects of her life along the way

Table Of Contents

You're proud, you'll suffer -- Forebears -- The bad one -- The lost years -- Things that I should be and which I am not -- A rich man's game -- Captive mistress -- Arthur Capel -- Refashioning Paris -- The rite of spring -- The end of an Epoque -- Master of her art -- The war bans the bizarre -- Remember that you're a woman -- Alone -- Beginning again -- The strangest and most brilliant years -- Dmitri Pavlovich -- the lucky N05 -- Entirely in white and covered in pearls -- Reverdy -- At the center -- Bend'or -- The crash -- Schiap had lots of it but it was bad -- War -- Survival -- Von Dincklage -- Exile -- Return: 1954 -- I prefer disaster to nothingness -- I only hear my heart on the stairs -- Those on whom legends are built are their legends

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