COCO CHANEL 1stEd Charles Ross 1976 Biography Fashion Art Deco LBD Facts Designs

This is the 1976 *first edition in the English langauge* of  CHANEL by Edmonde Charles-Roux.

CHANEL was not just the creator of the little black dress and quilted handbag — she knew and collaborated with her era’s leading creative minds: PICASSO, DIAGHILEV, STRAVINSKY, COCTEAU, Jean RENOIR and VISCONTI―as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the tyranny of 19th-century fashion and introduced the new concept of style …

Hardback, around 150 x 232 mm tall, retains its pictorial dust jacket, as originally issued, over its publisher's original cloth boards, titling to back-strip protecting the spine all original gilt.  

First Anglophone edition published by Cape,  London, in 1976. Free from prior ownership inscriptions and permanent markings to the text.

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is old, it may display trivial signs of use and age  consistent with a printed object of this vintage. Translated from the French by Nancy Amphoux.  All xii pp preliminary pages + 380 pp main text are complete and otherwise correct.

¶ Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971); French fashion designer and businesswoman.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883–1971); French founder of the eponymous brand, she is credited with popularizing the sporty, casual chic as the post-World War I feminine standard of style, replacing the previously dominant corseted silhouette.  Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realizing her aesthetic design in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent Chanel Number 5, and her famed interlocked-CC monogram have arguably become iconic.¶

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