Mademoiselle Coco Chanel and the pulse of history
"Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today--and for nearly the last hundred years--we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel's role in the events of the twentieth century was as...
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New York :
Random House,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Early life
- A new world
- Designing together : Coco Chanel and Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel
- Grand duke Dmitri
- My heart is in my pocket : Coco and Pierre Reverdy
- Women friends, mimetic contagion, and the Parisian Avant-garde
- Antigone in Vogue : Chanel costumes the Modernist stage
- Bendor : the richest man in Europe
- The patriotism of luxury : Chanel and Paul Iribe
- The pulse of history : Chanel, Fascism, and the interwar years
- Love, war, and espionage
- Showing them : Chanel returns.
