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Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452150621
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated biography of the French fashion designer who pioneering style defined casual elegance for the twentieth century. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s changed women’s fashion forever with her signature style and revolutionary approach to design. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations, this e-book sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century’s most iconic designs. The author and illustrator vividly chronicle Chanel’s life from her impoverished childhood in an orphanage to her dreams of becoming a singer and her tumultuous love affairs with Europe’s elite. Brimming with excerpts from Chanel’s own letters and diaries, these pages reveal the passion and vision of one of the most celebrated fashion designers of all time.

Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781452150246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations and a tactile cover with foil-stamped and debossed details, this giftable volume sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs—from her impoverished childhood in an orphanage to her dreams of becoming a singer and her tumultuous love affairs with Europe's elite. Brimming with excerpts from Chanel's own letters and diaries, these pages reveal the passion and vision of one of the most celebrated fashion designers of all time.

Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452162085
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations this ebook sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs—from her impoverished childhood in an orphanage to her dreams of becoming a singer and her tumultuous love affairs with Europe's elite. Brimming with excerpts from Chanel's own letters and diaries, these pages reveal the passion and vision of one of the most celebrated fashion designers of all time.

Library of Luminaries: Frida Kahlo

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452162107
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Frida Kahlo written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of one of history's most celebrated artists and feminist icons: Frida Kahlo. This beautifully illustrated biography is full of colorful details that illuminate the woman behind the artwork, including excerpts from Kahlo's personal letters and diaries on her childhood dreams of becoming a doctor, the accident that changed the course of her life, and her love affairs with famous artists. Featuring handwritten text alongside lovely illustrations, Library of Luminaries: Frida Kahlo provides a captivating window into the vibrant life, work, and creative vision of the beloved Mexican artist.

Library of Luminaries: Virginia Woolf

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452157960
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Virginia Woolf written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of literature's most beloved authors is beautifully documented in this illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf. Featuring handwritten text paired with beguiling illustrations, this ebook reveals the formative events of Woolf's life: how she was supported—and challenged—in her craft, her struggles with mental illness, and how her great works came to be. With lines pulled from Woolf's own letters featured alongside interesting details, such as her nickname for her husband and how slowly her first novel sold, this intimate guide makes a wonderful book for literature lovers and book clubbers.

Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452157944
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life—her childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more. Brimming with delightful details like the objects Austen kept on her desk and how much Emma originally sold for, this beautiful ebook is a lovely new way to celebrate Austen's legacy.

Chanel

Author : Lisa Chaney
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141972998
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Chanel written by Lisa Chaney and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. 'Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story' Evening Standard 'An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer' Vogue Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The SundayTimes, the Spectator and the Guardian. She is the author of two previous biographies: Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie.

The Essence of Perfume

Author : Roja Dove
Publisher : Black Dog Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908966469
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Essence of Perfume written by Roja Dove and published by Black Dog Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world's leading perfume authority, Dove leads readers on an extravagant journey through the world of scent, from Ancient Egypt to the present. Beginning with a comprehensive discussion of the sense of smell and the materials of the master perfumer, Dove goes on to celebrate the great classics, the makers who brought them to life and the bottle makers who gave them shape.

Coco Chanel

Author : Nina Cosford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711237179
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Coco Chanel written by Nina Cosford and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated biography follows Coco Chanel's exceptional life and work, and celebrates the fashion icon's immense legacy. Chanel lived a remarkable life, growing up as an orphan in a French convent, opening her own fashion house and embarking on several life-changing love affairs. This artist's take on her life continues the popular Life Portraits series, which celebrates the lives of iconic women. Coco Chanel follows on from equally evocative illustrated biographies of twentieth-century literary giant Virginia Woolf, and one of literature's most loved authors, Jane Austen.

American Cocktail

Author : Anita Reynolds
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369335
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book American Cocktail written by Anita Reynolds and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail.

The Many Lives of Miss K

Author : Jean-Noel Liaut
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847841421
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Miss K written by Jean-Noel Liaut and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908–1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita Sackville-West, Toto lived with an independent spirit more typical of the men of her generation, moving in the worlds of fashion, society, art, and politics with an insouciant ease that would stir both admiration and envy even today. Sphinxlike and tantalizing, Toto conducted her life as a game, driven by audacity and style. Jean-Noël Liaut chases his enigmatic subject through the many roles and lives she inhabited, both happy and tragic. Though her beauty, charisma, and taste for the extraordinary made her an exuberant fixture of Paris fashion and café society, her intelligence and steely sense of self drove her toward bigger things, culminating in espionage during WWII, for which she was imprisoned by the Nazis in Ravensbruck. After the horrors of the camp, she found solace in Erica Brausen, the German art dealer who launched the career of Francis Bacon, and the two women lived out their lives together surrounded by cultural luminaries like Edmonde Charles-Roux and Luchino Visconti. But even in her later decades, Toto remained impossible for anyone to possess. The Many Lives of Miss K explores the allure of a freethinking and courageous woman who, fiercely protective of her independence, was sought after by so many but ultimately known by very few.

Culture Chanel

Author : Jean-Louis Froment
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419729362
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Culture Chanel written by Jean-Louis Froment and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exhibition The Woman Who Reads has been presented in Venice at the Ca' Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art from September 17th, 2016 to January 8th, 2017"--Page 392.

Flapper

Author : Joshua Zeitz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307523829
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Flapper written by Joshua Zeitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Flapper is an inside look at the 1920s. With tales of Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form; Lois Long, the woman who christened herself “Lipstick” and gave New Yorker readers a thrilling entrée into Manhattan’s extravagant Jazz Age nightlife; three of America’s first celebrities: Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks; Dallas-born fashion artist Gordon Conway; Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era; and more, this is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the 1920s to exhilarating life.

Coco Chanel

Author : Henry Gidel
Publisher : Flammarion
ISBN 13 : 2081250659
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Coco Chanel written by Henry Gidel and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2010-06-08T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elle a tout inventé : les tailleurs gansés, les accessoires qui deviennent bijoux, les tenues liberté pour des femmes irrévérencieuses, des parfums très parisiens qui ont conquis le monde, et surtout une mode, un style : le sien. Mais, un soir de 1971, l'une des indomptables du siècle tire sa révérence. Coco Chanel s'éteint seule dans sa chambre du Ritz. Ce monstre sacré, tellement inscrit dans son époque qu'on a parlé des années Chanel , a connu une existence tourmentée. Issue d'une famille de forains sans le sou, orpheline à douze ans, élevée sévèrement par des religieuses dans un couvent de Corrèze, rien ne prédisposait la jeune Gabrielle Chanel à devenir l'égérie des années folles. Rien n'annonçait que la couturière aux doigts d'or allait enflammer Deauville, Biarritz et Paris, révolutionner la silhouette des femmes, séduire l'intelligentsia de son temps, envoûter Cocteau, Colette, Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, ni même vivre des passions tumultueuses avec un cousin du Roi d'Angleterre, un neveu du tsar ou un poète surréaliste. Royale et généreuse, impétueuse et colérique, la petite auvergnate devenue étoile de la mode, ne manqua pas non plus d'accrocs dans la trame de sa vie : des drames sentimentaux à répétition, la surprenante fermeture de sa maison de couture à l'aube de la guerre puis son tout aussi inattendu retour à la mode à l'âge de soixante et onze ans, un caractère que ses admirateurs disaient affirmé mais les mauvaises langues infernal... c'est tout cela Coco Chanel. Un personnage hors du commun dont les revers passionnent autant que les succès, dont le nom est devenu tout un symbole. Riche de la consultation de sources inédites et d'entretiens avec d'importants témoins ayant connu Coco Chanel, Henry Gidel écrit, dans cette Grande Biographie, le roman vrai d'une femme qui a parcouru avec éclat les trois quarts du XXe siècle.

The Last Collection

Author : Jeanne Mackin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399585907
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Last Collection written by Jeanne Mackin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With World War II looming over Paris, an American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this “fascinating” (Hazel Gaynor) novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American. Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli are fighting for recognition as the most successful fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. They oppose each other at every turn, in both their politics and their designs: Chanel’s are classic, elegant, and practical; Schiaparelli’s are bold, experimental, and surreal. When Lily Sutter, a recently widowed young American teacher, visits her brother, Charlie, in Paris, he wants to buy her a couture dress—a Chanel. Lily, however, prefers a Schiaparelli. Charlie’s socially prominent girlfriend soon begins wearing Schiaparelli’s designs, too, and much of Paris follows in her footsteps. Schiaparelli offers budding artist Lily a job at her store, and Lily finds herself increasingly involved in the designers’ personal war. Their fierce competition reaches new and dangerous heights as the Nazis and World War II bear down on Paris.

The Twilight Years

Author : William Wiser
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786707867
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Twilight Years written by William Wiser and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating social history of Paris in the 1930s introduces readers to the international, cosmopolitan city that attracted thousands of expatriates from all over the world, including Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, Man Ray, and Picasso, to name a few.

Tom's Midnight Garden

Author : Philippa Pearce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192717771
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Tom's Midnight Garden written by Philippa Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.