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Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story (Evening Standard )
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Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story Evening Standard
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the biography of Coco Chanel that we've all been waiting for. At last,a balanced,insightful,faithful account of an extraordinary life.At the same time,a wonderful read. I couldn't put it down. I was swept along through the sadness and deprivation of her early years;through her emergence into fashionable society and the love affairs that marked her;through the shattering loss of the man she loved the most;through the creation of her astonishing business and the way in which she changed the face of fashion;through the challenges of the war and the triumph as well as the desolation of her later years.
Lisa Chaney has,as in previous biographies (Elizabeth David,J M Barrie),a particularly deft touch as she paints the background in which her subjects' lives unfold;the emotional, social,historical and natural landscapes that mould them.She draws vividly the beauty and harshness of the Cevennes countryside where Chanel grew up,the dazzling Paris of her day,the ambiguous position in society which she always keenly felt because of her origins. Chaney has an extraordinary ability to enter into, and guide the reader to understand,the emotional lives of the characters who people the life of Coco Chanel. She does this with honesty and a real eye for the truth.
This is a fine book and a wise one. This will be the biography of Coco Chanel that will stand the test of time.
Lisa Chaney has,as in previous biographies (Elizabeth David,J M Barrie),a particularly deft touch as she paints the background in which her subjects' lives unfold;the emotional, social,historical and natural landscapes that mould them.She draws vividly the beauty and harshness of the Cevennes countryside where Chanel grew up,the dazzling Paris of her day,the ambiguous position in society which she always keenly felt because of her origins. Chaney has an extraordinary ability to enter into, and guide the reader to understand,the emotional lives of the characters who people the life of Coco Chanel. She does this with honesty and a real eye for the truth.
This is a fine book and a wise one. This will be the biography of Coco Chanel that will stand the test of time.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Read this book at double quick time - knowing much of Chanel's life already.
First of all Chaney is a brilliant biographer, one of the very best writing at the present, her Elizabeth David and JM Barrie are now, considered definitive.
My particular interest in Chanel has had me longing for the publication of this biography by Chaney. I have not been - not for a sentence, disappointed, her prose style her probing intellect means you have in your hands a masterpiece. Like the other biographies she has written, this too will become the definitive.
It is a relief to me that I can send this review, the other (apologies all round) biographies of very recent times have to a man, to a woman, been poorly written, weak in content, histrionic in both tone and `style'.
To anyone serious about the `intimate life' of an Icon (without apology I use an overused cliché) this is the biography of Chanel to be cherished, as an academic study and as a glorious read.
First of all Chaney is a brilliant biographer, one of the very best writing at the present, her Elizabeth David and JM Barrie are now, considered definitive.
My particular interest in Chanel has had me longing for the publication of this biography by Chaney. I have not been - not for a sentence, disappointed, her prose style her probing intellect means you have in your hands a masterpiece. Like the other biographies she has written, this too will become the definitive.
It is a relief to me that I can send this review, the other (apologies all round) biographies of very recent times have to a man, to a woman, been poorly written, weak in content, histrionic in both tone and `style'.
To anyone serious about the `intimate life' of an Icon (without apology I use an overused cliché) this is the biography of Chanel to be cherished, as an academic study and as a glorious read.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
With so much being written about Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, you do wonder what so many authors have been discovering in order to feed the mill about her other than new discoveries about hidden designs for the fashion collection and whilst I have to admit an interest in one of the most controversial as well as clever business women of our age, I haven't read any books about her before, so it was a story that I was interested in reading based more on what the woman had to say rather than the public figure.
What was revealed within this title was a story from her humble beginnings through to her time in a convent and then onto the streets of Paris alongside her love affair through previously unpublished letters from Arthur "Boy" Capel and extracts from the diaries of Dmitri Pavlovich (one of the surviving Russian Nobility. It's candid, it has some heart felt moments and the reader gets to see what made Chanel tick as well as her grief at the loss of various loves. All in a decent book and whilst I can't comment on other titles about her, this one gave me a rounded view and allowed me to glimpse the human beneath the myth.
What was revealed within this title was a story from her humble beginnings through to her time in a convent and then onto the streets of Paris alongside her love affair through previously unpublished letters from Arthur "Boy" Capel and extracts from the diaries of Dmitri Pavlovich (one of the surviving Russian Nobility. It's candid, it has some heart felt moments and the reader gets to see what made Chanel tick as well as her grief at the loss of various loves. All in a decent book and whilst I can't comment on other titles about her, this one gave me a rounded view and allowed me to glimpse the human beneath the myth.
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