Chanel : : the Vocabulary of Style
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Translation of: Chanel : figures du style.
The body liberated -- Little black dresses -- Black into night -- Baroque inspirations -- 31, Rue Cambon -- Youth and evolution -- Simple chic -- Androgyne -- From tweed to tweeds -- The total look -- Rebel.
Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials.
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Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 33 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300175660
0300175663
SUBJECTS
Chanel, Coco, -- 1883-1971 -- Portraits.
Chanel, Coco, -- 1883-1971.
Lagerfeld, Karl.
Chanel (Firm) -- Pictorial works.
Chanel (Firm) -- History.
Fashion design -- France -- Pictorial works.
Models (Persons) -- Portraits.
Fashion photography.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.