Le temps Chanel

By Edmonde Charles-Roux

Book Overview

The best-selling, most abundantly illustrated biography available of fashion icon Coco Chanel, written by Edmonde Charles-Roux, her close friend and chosen official biographer.

"A model pictorial biography." --New York Times * "This Chanel biography is as elegantly turned out as its subject." --Washington Post

In this beautiful volume, the glorious life and world of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through lively text and a staggering collection of photographs, shedding new light on one of the great stories of the modern age.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other, arguably the most influential designer of the 20th century, whose creations remain as popular today as when they were introduced a century ago.

She invented modern, chic clothing for women: she freed them from corsets, bobbed their hair, put them in simple bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelry, the exquisitely comfortable and elegant knit suit, the "little black dress," and the now-ubiquitous quilted handbag. She made the first couture perfume―No. 5―which remains the most popular scent ever created.

And she knew and collaborated with the leading creative minds of her day: the likes of Picasso, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Jean Renoir, and Visconti―as she matched their modernist innovations by liberating women from the prison of 19th-century fashion and introducing a whole new concept of style.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865651590
• ISBN13: 9780865651593
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Vendome Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 4.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.2" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

favorite book

the book came in new condition. it is an excellent read and full of gorgeous, vivid pictures painting the image of the life and times of Chanel. beautifully written and thorough. if you are a fan of the reknown designer or not, you will be after you read through the biography of her life well written by Edmonde Charles-Roux. a book to pass down to your children or to keep for your own private library to read over and over again.

All about Coco Chanel & her world!

I paid almost full price for this book and I don't regret it. I found this coffee table book just lovely. I am not a fashion expert. I'm just a reader interested in interesting people, so I was looking for a book on CHANEL that gave a brief background on her life and photos of Coco and some of her fashions. Well, this book seemed to fit the bill---for me. I was not disappointed. I have enjoyed this book very much and it sits on my living room table , ----for the book to be browsed by others.

The Big Beautiful World of Chanel

Visually pleasing and well-written, here is a book that would surely please Mademoiselle Chanel if she were still with us. Fans of Chanel and "Fashionistas" alike will undoubtedly be delighted with this big, beautiful book and its vast number of Chanel photos, which document Coco's personal world of fashion. Linda Painchaud-Steinman, Park Edge Books

Please bring this book back!

*Chanel and Her World* is a great document of a great woman! I've never seen another Chanel book with so many pictures, and that's what it's all about when it comes to one of the century's most important style-makers. It's a CRIME that it's out of print, because I MUST OWN IT.