Chanel: A Woman of her Own
French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) created elegant women's clothing and had a succession of celebrated friends and lovers from Winston Churchill to Igor Stravinsky. "Madsen does a commendable job of ferreting out the seeming truth of a woman apparently as deft at fabricating her own life as she was with a needle and thread," said PW. Photos.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.