Непутевая Шанель

Edmonda Charles-Roux - writer, president of the Goncourt Academy, as well as fashion historian and journalist (she worked for Elle magazines and the French edition of Vogue) - devoted many years to studying the life and personality of the French fashion master Coco Chanel. Films have been made based on her books, and one of them - Coco before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) starring Audrey Tautou - is dedicated to her turbulent youth. Gabrielle Chanel did not recognize the beaten path and habitually violated generally accepted norms. It is because of this that she was successful. She had everything: fame, wealth, famous lovers - but she was never a wife or mother. Friends replaced her family. She drowned out the need for love with work. And every year her character deteriorated. Chanel introduced the fashion for beach pajamas, handbags with a thin strap, women's sailor suits, trousers, and finally gave the world her famous little black dress. All her innovations have become an integral part of the turbulent twentieth century: its two world wars, the waves of emigration of the Russian aristocracy and the artistic elite, the heyday of cinema in Hollywood, and many other things that came into contact and grew out of the fashion and style of Coco Chanel, who does not like easy ways. Publisher: Astrel, 2010 Hardcover, 624 pp. ISBN; 978-5-17-062752-3, 978-5-271-25612-7, 978-5-226-01578-6 Format: 60x90/16