Academy Award winning actress Shirley MacLaine stars as Coco Chanel in this critically acclaimed film that charts the rise of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. From her humble childhood and early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate love affair with a dashing Englishman and ultimate success as a pioneering fashion icon, Coco Chanel is the story of a glamorous woman who was hard to love and harder to ignore. Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominated, Coco Chanel is a must-see film for every lover of fashion and romance.
The story of Chanel begins with an abandoned child, as lost as a girl in a dark fairytale.Unveiling remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel's early years in a convent orphanage, and her flight into unconventional adulthood, Justine Picardie explores what lies beneath the glossy surface of a mythic fashion icon.
Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation.An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel's last surviving friends, employees and relatives, it also unravels her coded language and symbols,and traces the influence of her formative years on her legendary style.
Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971, at the age of 87, but her legacy lives on. Drawing upon he unprecedented access to the Chanel archive,Justine Picardie brings Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding and uncovers the consequences of what she covered up, unpicking the seams between truth and myth, in a story that reveals the true heart of fashion.
MADEMOISELLE IS AT HOME
GABRIELLE
IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS
COCO
COURTESANS AND CAMELLIAS
THE DOUBLE C
THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS
MlSlA AND THE MUSE
NUMBER FIVE
THE RUSSIANS
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER
RIVIERA CHIC
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
THE PROMISED LAND
DIAMONDS AS BIG
THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY
THE COMEBACK
CELEBRITY CHANEL
SCISSORS
LA GRANDE MADEMOISELLE
PICTURE CREDITS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS