Chanel. The Legend of Fashion

This book is a biography of the legendary Coco Chanel, recreated from unique materials. Journalist and biographer Michael O'Neil has compiled archival documents, personal letters, and memoirs of contemporaries to unveil the secrets of the life of the greatest couturier of the 20th century. Before us is an exciting portrait of the great Mademoiselle—a woman who not only created fashion but wrote her own story, challenged traditions, and dictated new rules of the game to the whole world. Why is the name Coco still a symbol of elegance and independence today? How did a girl from a provincial backwater manage to completely rethink established notions of fashion, creating a completely new image of the modern woman? How did this extraordinary and controversial woman turn her own fate into one of the most outstanding and mysterious legends of the 20th century? We invite you to find answers to all these questions right now!