Book description
In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa
Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred
in her tumultuous era
Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and
financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the
twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies.
She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet
in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and
turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman.
Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's
Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet.
'Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's
well-trodden rag trade to riches story' Evening Standard
'An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable
designer' Vogue
Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and
literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture,
and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including
The SundayTimes, the Spectator and the
Guardian. She is the author of two previous biographies:
Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of
J. M. Barrie.
Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and
literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and
reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including
The
Sunday
Times
, the
Spectator
and the
Guardian
. She is the author of two previous biographies:
Elizabeth David
and
Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J. M. Barrie
.
