Record details

• ISBN: 9780670023097
• ISBN: 0670023094
• ISBN: 9780143122128
• Physical Description: xiv, 448 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: First American edition
• Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-429) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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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Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971.
Fashion designers > Biography.
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Biographies.