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NOW IN PAPERBACK! A modern look at the life of a fashion icon-with practical life lessons for women of all ages Delving into the extraordinary life of renowned French fashion designer Coco Chanel, Karen Karbo has written a new kind of self-help book, exploring Chanel's philosophy on a range of universal themes-from style to passion, from money and success to femininity and living life on your own terms.

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Reading Karbo is like listening to a dear friend talk about the legendary designer over brunch. -Los Angeles Times We're in a period of Coco-worship, with a number of new books and films about her. But before you overdose, check out 'The Gospel' for useful insights into some of the strategies and traits that made Ms. Chanel a mogul... [T]he humorous commentary makes it all worthwhile. -Wall Street Journal This is a book for fashionistas everywhere; those who love to read about the fashion legacy that continues to inspire women all over the world. -Creators.com Anyone with a good sense of humor should hugely enjoy, or should I say enjoie, Karen Karbo's funny and stylish take on Coco Chanel. Like a little black dress, this handy life guide will take you from day into evening. K.K. on C.C.: oui, oui! -Henry Alford, author of How to Live Wise, witty, and refreshingly colloquial, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel is an enchanting tour through the complex, often controversial life of fashion icon Chanel. Filled with relevant life lessons for the modern woman, this book is Karbo at her irrepressible best. -Hilary Black, editor of The Secret Currency of Love No writer has a better understanding of what it means to be Chanel and what it means to be a woman who admires Chanel than Karen Karbo, author of the short and addictive The Gospel According to Coco Chanel. -HeadButler.com

<p> Reading Karbo is like listening to a dear friend talk about the legendary designer over brunch. -- Los Angeles Times <p> We're in a period of Coco-worship, with a number of new books and films about her. But before you overdose, check out 'The Gospel' for useful insights into some of the strategies and traits that made Ms. Chanel a mogul. . . . [T]he humorous commentary makes it all worthwhile. -- Wall Street Journal <p> This is a book for fashionistas everywhere; those who love to read about the fashion legacy that continues to inspire women all over the world. --Creators.com Anyone with a good sense of humor should hugely enjoy, or should I say enjoie, Karen Karbo's funny and stylish take on Coco Chanel. Like a little black dress, this handy life guide will take you from day into evening. K.K. on C.C.: oui, oui! --Henry Alford, author of How to Live Wise, witty, and refreshingly colloquial, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel is an enchanting tour through the complex,

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Karen Karbo is a novelist, journalist, and witty, no-nonsense social commentator, and is the author of How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great, a biography-cum-guidebook the Philadelphia Inquirer called an exuberant celebration of a great original. Karbo is also the author of Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost, the third installment in a trilogy about a seventh-grade girl detective who has a peculiar gift: self-confidence. Karbo's debut novel, Trespassers Welcome Here, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and all three of her novels have been named New York Times notable books. The Stuff of Life, her memoir about her father, was a People Magazine Critic's Pick and winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her work essays, reviews, and articles can be found in Outside, Elle, Vogue, Esquire, Redbook, More, Self, Entertainment Weekly, the New Republic, the Oregonian, and the New York Times. Karbo also hails from a family of designers. Her grandmother, Luna of California, was a well-known designer of couture in Los Angeles in the 50s, and her father was an industrial designer who in 1942 designed the hood ornament for the Lincoln Continental, still in use today. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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