Bibliograph

Coco Chanel, pearls, perfume, and the little black dress, Susan Goldman Rubin

Type

Label

Coco Chanel, pearls, perfume, and the little black dress, Susan Goldman Rubin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coco Chanel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Susan Goldman Rubin

Sub title

pearls, perfume, and the little black dress

Summary

"Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry; as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5. The book includes a bibliography, a list of where to see her work, and an index."--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Who was Coco Chanel? -- Sell her to the gypsies -- I am not an orphan! -- Who has seen Coco? -- I was my own master -- Black wipes out everything -- Lead them by the nose -- Go and fetch my pearls -- Take off the girdle! -- That Italian -- I detest giving in -- A mistake -- He isn't a German! -- What a horror! -- I will show them -- Epilogue: A very bad dead person -- Where to see the works of Coco Chanel -- Chanel's fashion firsts -- Source notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Pearls, perfume, and the little black dress

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