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] epub pdf mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Coco Chanel可可香奈儿传记 英文原版 [平装] 下载 epub mobi pdf txt 电子书 2025
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整体还是不错的,很划算
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没有耐心一次读完,只能有时间的时候就拿出来看看了.感觉还可以.
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有插图。书很厚。展示了很多香奈儿的生活照片
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书很好,印刷也很好,内容也不错
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真心很喜欢coco,觉得她真的很厉害,很值得人佩服!!
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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
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书很好,印刷也很好,内容也不错
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不论学英文还是了解历史 都值得一看
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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.