Coco Chanel
By: Jeremy Wallis
Series: Creative lives
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781588102027
Subjects: Fashion design; Women; History; Women fashion designers; Juvenile literature; Biography; Fashion designers
Description: Offers a brief introduction to the life and career of fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, discussing how she changed the face of women's fashion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.
Table of contents: title: Coco Chanel; title: Chanel's early life; title: Chanel's early career; title: Coco and boy and the founding of Chanel modes; title: World War One; title: The roaring twenties; title: Chanel and the avant-garde; title: All that glisters [sic], Coco's costume jewellery; title: The great depression; title: Coco and the movies; title: ... is not gold?; title: Fashion 1935-1939; title: Life during wartime exile; title: Revolution renewed; title: The life and legacy of Coco Chanel; title: Timeline.