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This new biography offers unprecedented insight into Coco Chanel's complex and enigmatic life and features previously unpublished information and images. Coco Chanel continues to beguile more than two decades after her death; her life and work are a source of enduring fascination. Chanel expert Isabelle Fiemeyer unveils the mysteries that have surrounded the private and public figure by piecing together new research with accounts from Chanel's intimate friends and relatives, artists, writers, photographers, directors, actors, scholars, and those who worked with her inside the House of Chanel. The author describes Chanel's carefully crafted persona and then gradually elucidates each layer of intrigue that surrounded the great fashion designer to reveal the woman behind the enigma. Her life was marked by suffering that stemmed from affronts, an absent father, abandonment, and death, but also by vitally positive forces-her idealized childhood, collaborations with the world's greatest artists, and her permanently hypnotic, albeit staged, presence. While the myth surrounding Chanel was extolled, perpetuated, and modulated by some, others twisted it, reviling and vilifying the designer. Offering fresh revelations about Chanel's life, this handsome volume includes photographs and previously unpublished material, including new documents from the wartime period.

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Fiemeyer s 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer s close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house. 15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, <i> Vogue</i>

Fiemeyer's 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer's close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house. --15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, <i> Vogue</i>

-Fiemeyer's 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer's close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house.---15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, Vogue Fiemeyer's 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer's close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house. --15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, Vogue Fiemeyer s 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer s close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house. 15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, Vogue

Fiemeyer's 2016 biography of Coco Chanel divulges previously unpublished information and images, as she spoke to the designer's close relatives and friends, as well as to those who worked intimately with her inside the French fashion house. --15 of the Most Covetable Fashion Tomes to Hit Bookshelves This Year, Vogue

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Isabelle Fiemeyer is a respected literary and fashion historian who has written many works on the subject of Coco Chanel, including Intimate Chanel (Flammarion, 2011).

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