About this title: This splendid book examines the legacy of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, one of the twentieth 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: born of a poor family in the provinces and raised in a convent, she was an entertainer and the mistress of men of impeccable social standing, and she began her career not as a dressmaker but as a milliner. Chanel's enduring influence is necessarily based on the long shadow cast over fashion by her maison couture. Chanel examines ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300107135ISBN:0300107137
Description: Ex-lib-Good. 9.75 x 12.25. White covers have minor wear and scattered heavy soil, usual library markings, hard cover catalog from an exhibition of Coco Chanel's fashion designs, lots of color illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University, New York/New Haven
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781588391483ISBN:1588391485
Description: Ex. Lib. 215 pages, essays by Lagerfeld and 7 others, followed by color plates of designs, some with blank versos, divided into Modernism, Romanticism and Iconography; catalogue, acknowledgments; folio, original white cloth, pictrorial label front cover. Very good, cover titles rubbed on spine, some soil on edges and rear, library stamp blank front endpaper, with drawen stamp, no other library marks; contents near fine; plates fine; no dust jacket. Serving the antiquarian and used book world ... read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781588391483ISBN:1588391485
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. 215 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781588391490ISBN:1588391493
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. very clean and tight. Trade paperback (US). 215 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781588391490ISBN:1588391493
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Still in original shrink wrap. Carefully packed and shipped. Trade paperback (US). 215 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. Brand new book with clear plastic dust jacket, as published. Clean/unmarked text. In stock for immediate delivery. GIFT GIVING QUALITY. read more
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