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Chanel and Her World: Friends, Fashion, and Fame

A pictorial examination of the contributions of Coco Chanel to twentieth-century fashion cites her introduction of bobbed hair, slacks, tanned skin, and the world's first couture perfume, in a volume that features lavish photography documenting her break with nineteenth-century styles and redefinition of elegant design. 10,000 first printing.

Subject
biography
Themes
fashion
Setting
20th centuryfrance
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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