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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.
New York, Random House, 2014, gr. in-8°, xxiii-576 pp, 16 pl. hors texte d'illustrations et photos en noir et en couleurs, 70 illustrations et photos dans le texte, biblio, notes, index, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais
Coco Chanel transformed forever the way women dressed: Arguably, no other individual has had a deeper impact on the visual aesthetic of the world. But how did a poor orphan become a global icon of both luxury and everyday style? Raised in rural poverty and orphaned early, the young Chanel attracted the attention of a powerful admirer and parlayed his support into her own hat design business, which evolved into a clothing empire. For the rest of Chanel’s life, the professional, personal, and political were interwoven. Her lovers included composer Igor Stravinsky; Grand Duke Dmitri, a Romanov heir; the Duke of Westminster; a diplomat; a Nazi officer; and several women as well. By age forty, Chanel had become a household name, and her Chanel Corporation remains the world's highest-earning privately owned luxury goods company. In “Mademoiselle”, Garelick delivers the most probing, well-researched, and insightful biography to date on this seemingly familiar but endlessly surprising figure – a work that is truly both a heady intellectual study and a literary page-turner.
