• Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

  • Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

    Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

    "Chanel's ambitions and accomplishments were unparalleled. Her hat shop evolved into a clothing empire. She became a noted theatrical and film costume designer, collaborating with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Luchino Visconti. The genius of Coco Chanel, Rhonda K. Garelick shows, lay in the way she absorbed the zeitgeist, reflecting it back to the world in her designs and in what Garelick calls 'wearable personality' — an irresistible and contagious style reflecting both world history and Chanel's nearly unbelievable life story.

    "In Mademoiselle, Garelick delivers the most probing, well-researched, and insightful biography to date on this seemingly familiar but endlessly surprising figure — a work that is truly both a heady intellectual study and a literary page-turner." —Penguin Random House

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