內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
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.
精彩書評
"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
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這本書的外錶比較髒。
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從北京調貨至江蘇的,雖然等待時間長瞭點,不過還是很值得的,書比我預期的要好,的確是原裝版的。
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挺實用的,比彆的品牌強”
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書的整體尺寸比預計的要小,紙張質量和印刷質量非常不錯,還沒有時間看
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不錯,女朋友很喜歡
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環保紙張很好呢,字體大小跟行距都很閤理,看瞭不少原著,不知怎麼的,這本讀著有點吃力。。。
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沒有耐心一次讀完,隻能有時間的時候就拿齣來看看瞭.感覺還可以.
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簡裝書,字體很清晰,封麵很美
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給彆人買的,自己完全看不懂