Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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The book is regarded as controversial because it has triggered a strong dislike of Chanel in many readers. Meet three inspirational figures from Black culture and history: Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr. All our designs are designed in-house by us, should you require any changes to the design such as the layout or even extra text to make it extra special, just ask! This book takes us back to when Coco was just a child and explains how her life developed from there.

Chanel is the symbol for class and I wanted to know all about the woman who changed the fashion world. The book begins with the story of her affair with and love for the Duke of Westminster, which came to an end in 1930. As the holidays roll around, you might have a little bit more time to read and fully immerse yourself in a great story. Newly commissioned photographs of the selected pieces, together with archival images, capture the design evolution of this fashion icon. This isnt an easy book to read, mostly because at times the author seems lost on which direction to take, so quotes from everyone who knew her pop up all over the place, slowing down the pace and making one a tiny bit bored.It was a book focussed on revealing truth and facts, and I learned some things about Chanel I had not known before.

This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel’s life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler’s SS.Gabrielle Chanel was born in a poorhouse; her parents were unmarried and, according to Chanel, her mother Jeanne died of tuberculosis when Chanel was aged six. But what of the woman behind the name: what do we know about the woman who designed simple yet sophisticated clothes, practical but elegant bags and shoes, and presented Chanel No 5 perfume to the world?