Chanel
- ISBN-10
- 1588391485
- ISBN-13
- 9781588391483
- Series
- Chanel
- Category
- Costume design
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-01-01
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Authors
- Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda
Description
The authors examine the legacy of Gabrielle Coco Chanel, one of the 20th century's great icons of style. While Chanel mythologized her glamorous life through relentless self-invention, the bare facts of her biography are no less worthy than her legend.
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