内容简介
Coco Chanel’s genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell – Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roué, Boy Capel; a French poet; a German spy and the Duke of Westminster, who offered to leave his wife for her permanently, if she would only bear him an heir.
Paradoxically, though she might have been regarded in some lights as a pioneering feminist – sacrificing marriage to a revolutionary career in couture – Chanel was utterly baffled by the idea of women’s politics. Educated women? 'A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stockings, never go out without a hat.’
Chanel’s rise from penniless orphan to millionaire designer – ‘inventing’ sportswear, the little black dress and No. 5 – makes compelling reading, not least because she was inclined to design her own life as deftly as she did her fashions. Axel Madsen negotiates Chanel’s smoke screens with skill, bringing this tantalizing woman to life in all her alluring complexity.
作者简介
Axel Madsen (born May 27, 1930) was a Danish-American biographer and journalist. Born in Copenhagen and raised in Paris, Madsen turned from music to writing in the early 1950s, initially for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1956 he moved to Canada and began working for United Press International. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s.
Biographies included Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck, Coco Chanel, John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, Yves St. Laurent, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, William C. Durant, William Wyler, and John Huston.He died of cancer in Los Angeles in 2007.
精彩书评
"Axel Madsen's book cuts through the falsehoods. Set against the realism of historical events, it skilfully analyses the creation of the Chanel phenomenon."
--Vogue
"The best yet book on the big C"
--Elle
"A great rags to riches story and the fascination of the gorgon does come through."
--Irish Independent
"A lively biography of the extraordinary fashion designer whose life was from start to finish an extravaganza."
--Financial Times
前言/序言
Coco Chanel可可香奈儿传记 英文原版 [平装] 电子书 下载 mobi epub pdf txt
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看介绍的时候觉得不错,拿到手之后没想到没有塑封,包装很简单,直接就装袋了。平装版的纸感觉不是很好,虽说没有想象中的那么好,但是京东送货还是很不错的,书虽然包装简单但是没有一点破损,冲这个这次购买总体来说还是满意的。
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给别人买的,自己完全看不懂
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环保纸张很好呢,字体大小跟行距都很合理,看了不少原著,不知怎么的,这本读着有点吃力。。。
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了解Coco的一本好书!
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一直很喜欢看这类传记读物,这本书不错!
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值得购买,价格也不高,质量和商场里买的一样好,价格就便宜好多了。
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书读着也很有味道
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Coco是特别的女人,她创立的品牌直到今天在时尚界都有着重要的地位,看看她的自传,想更多的了解她……
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纸张粗糙的不行,难道正版有这么不堪??????看着很影响心情啊