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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東西不錯,就是物流太慢啦!!!
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質量不錯,就是送貨時間太長瞭,等瞭有十多天。
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非常不錯的一本書非常不錯的一本書
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香奈兒是個傳奇!!!coco本人也一樣!!!
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要是紙張好點就好瞭,插圖都是黑白的。有點貴瞭。
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瞭解Coco的一本好書!
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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.
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大傢都喜歡看!|書買迴來一傢人都在看!哈哈哈,物超所值啊!!!
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還沒看。比想象的字體大,挺好的。