Chanel
Subtitle: the vocabulary of style
By: Jérôme Gautier
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780300175660
Subjects: Portraits; Women fashion designers; Influence; Models (Persons); Fashion designers; Fashion design; Fashion photography; Chanel (Firm); Pictorial works; History
Work titles: Chanel
Description: Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials.--
Notes: Translation of: Chanel : figures du style.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The body liberated; title: Little black dresses; title: Black into night; title: Baroque inspirations; title: 31, Rue Cambon; title: Youth and evolution; title: Simple chic; title: Androgyne; title: From tweed to tweeds; title: The total look; title: Rebel.