{"product_id":"chanel-and-her-world-friends-fashion-and-fame-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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A model pictorial biography.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times * \u003c\/i\u003e\"This Chanel biography is as elegantly turned out as its subject.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \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, shedding new light on one of the great stories of the modern age. \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmonde Charles-Roux\u003c\/b\u003e began her journalistic career at \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e and ultimately became editor-in-chief of French \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vendome Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648927011090,"sku":"9780865651593","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d98ec653-8828-4938-8dce-73e8f9056662.jpg?v=1733253008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chanel-and-her-world-friends-fashion-and-fame-9780865651593","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}