Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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The way the information was presented was also rather tedious; with no nuance to the writing. It might as well have been a text book. Now what do i know? all of the above and a little bit more...yes i admit all the info on her love life was very fun to read...the rumored nazi preference, not so much...but still, as in all bios one must read things with a grain of salt...no matter how much we may agree or not with a choice in a person´s life, we werent really there and neither was the author to know exactly what happened that day in that place. She is not famous today for having an affair with Duke of Westminster or a Russian Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. She is famous today for building a Fashion Empire. But after reading this book you might mistakenly think that fashion was secondary, tiny part of her life while her main occupation was looking for the next high profile lover jumping from one scandal to another.

What really surprised me was that she was this fashionable young woman in the 1920s, and even before her marriage to Prince Albert, who would become George VI, she was wearing Chanel, and then there were other members of the royal family that were wearing Chanel. Even Queen Mary,” Picardie says. “We think of Chanel as being so associated wholly with Paris and that idea of Parisian chic. But [Chanel] was so famous by the 1920s, and obviously she had become famous in America too. But the fact that she was dressing members of the British royal family and the British aristocracy is very interesting and is completely new.” Picardie, who was formerly the editor in chief of the U.K. editions of Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, has long been fascinated by the life of Gabrielle Chanel, and found herself thinking more about the Chanel founder while working on her most recent book, “Miss Dior.” To tell the truth, with the progress of human civilization and the improvement of the level of science and technology, the status of women in the society has gradually improved. Chanel herself is a good example，she also is a role model for all the woman in that time，Chanel is once again a fashion legend, not just for the brand, but for herself. People slowly found something good of this brand and Chanel： beauty, stubborn, passionate, cold…In fact, after world war II, many people regard Chanel as a role model because of her financial independence, she is different from other women, the everything she have is her accumulation for whole life. She also saw the need to create a mystique about a product. Choosing the fifth formulation of a perfume created in Grasse in 1921, she spritzed Chanel No5 around the high-tone restaurants of Paris and sent out bottles to celebrities, before launching it with her name on the bottle. In summary, very interesting and well-told story from the standpoint of Gabrielle Chanel, the muse, the inspiratory, the artist Maecenas, instead of the very well-known fashion icon.Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to orphanage after their mother’s death. The sisters nurture Gabrielle’s exceptional sewing skills, a talent that will propel the willful young woman into a life far removed from the drudgery of her childhood. And here are some depictions of her lavish lifestyle. Her luxurious apartment in the Ritz. Although she lived in a hotel room for 30 years, that did not prevent her to make it her home in every way. Explore what pop culture got wrong about French fashion designer Coco Chanel in movies about her life and career. (more) See all videos for this article duchess на английски, но не и на български за руската титла). Но хайде, бели кахъри, преводът е много добър, просто финалната редакция на текста не е на нивото на визуалните материали.

Chanel rarely talked about her childhood, except to say that early happiness was a handicap to success, but she certainly learned to sew and embroider with the nuns.To understand Chanel you have to consider the actual childhood and the childhood she imagined and the power of her first experience of being in love. Arthur Capel and Chanel were in love but her common roots and her growing success made the aristocratic Diana Wyndham a safer choice. His life, his views expressed through his writing, his success and her youth make his marriage and his death defining moments for Chanel. Subsequent liaisons could never measure up/ The men that possibly could have filled his shoes seemed to want to compete with her as she became more and more successful. I absolutely detested the narration of the audiobook (by Carole Boyd)! As usual, my star rating is based on the content of the written book, not the narration. I am not lowering the stars for the narration. I detest the dramatics with which the lines are read. Boyd plays with accents. Her French is impeccable - I am talking about the pronunciation of French words and names and places - but the tone she uses is highbrow and downright snobbish. Stuffy! The only accent I enjoyed was that she used for the American characters. Others may like that she uses different tones for different nationalities, but since most is in this fake French tone, it drove me absolutely crazy. I like narrators to just slowly and clearly read the text. I don't want to hear the voice but rather the content of the author’s lines. That is me, maybe you are different.