Coco Chanel: A Life from Beginning to End - Paperback

by Hourly History (Author)

Discover the remarkable life of Coco Chanel...
The legendary French designer Coco Chanel was born in 1883. She changed the way women thought about fashion and themselves; her dresses were meant to free women of the corset and allow them to move freely and elegantly. At the dawn of a new century, Chanel stood for a new type of woman. Chanel worked her way up from living in an orphanage to dining with royalty. She personified her own designs. Always independent, she never married, took on lovers as she pleased, and never apologized. A century after Coco Chanel opened her first small shop in Paris, her designs still define luxury.

• An Orphaned Girl
• Coco Takes on Paris
• Chanel No. 5
• The Crash of 1929
• Chanel during World War II: The Nazi Spy
• Exile and Return