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Coco Chanel : the legend and the life
Justine Picardie has spent the last decade puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, attempting to peel away the accretions of romance and lies. In this full-scale biography we finally discover the history of the incredible woman who created the way we look now.
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Coco Chanel
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Coco Chanel en moins d'une heure! Qui à l'heure actuelle ignore encore qui est Coco Chanel? Créatrice de mode de génie, cette jeune orpheline a révolutionné la mode féminine et n'a eu de cesse de se renouveler pour s'adapter aux nouvelles attentes de la société. Si son célèbre parfum Chanel N° 5 et ses vêtements à la fois sobres, chics et confortables ne sont plus à présenter, la vie de Mademoiselle Coco regorge d'épisodes tumultueux, mystérieux, voire scandaleux. De ses histoires d'amour sulfureuses à sa collaboration avec les nazis en passant par sa rivalité légendaire avec Elsa Schiaparelli et son exil en Suisse, la vie de Chanel fut aussi riche et fascinante que l'héritage qu'elle a laissé derrière elle. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur: •La vie de Coco Chanel •Le contexte de l'époque •Les temps forts de la vie de Coco Chanel •L'héritage Chanel Le mot de l'éditeur: « Dans ce numéro de la collection 50MINUTES Grandes Personnalités, Sandrine Papleux nous dévoile la vie tumultueuse de l'une des plus grandes créatrices de mode: Coco Chanel. Partie de rien mais animée par une incroyable volonté, Mademoiselle s'est battue durant sa jeunesse pour sortir de sa condition précaire et s'élever socialement. Convaincue de son potentiel et n'ayant que faire des diktats de la société, elle a su bousculer les codes vestimentaires de la gente féminine et s'adapter aux nouveaux besoins des femmes. Découvrons ensemble l'incroyable saga de l'empire Chanel. » Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Personnalités La série Grandes Personnalités de la collection « 50MINUTES » présente plus de cinquante hommes et femmes qui ont marqué l'histoire d'une manière ou d'une autre. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent faire le tour d'un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits historiques, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Coco Chanel
Large colorful illustrations accent this brief biography of the famous French fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco Chanel.
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Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli
Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past. This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.
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Living with Coco Chanel : the homes and landscapes that shaped the designer
\"Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was one of the most influential and ground-breaking fashion designers of the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated biography tells her remarkable story in a unique and accessible way, examining how the homes and landscapes of her life relate to her work. From her childhood at the convent at Aubazine to her boutique and apartment on Rue Cambon in Paris and her villa, La Pausa, on the French Riveria, Chanel's style was inspired and influenced by her environment. Emerging at a time that allowed women to be more independent, she designed clothes that let them be free. As she found fame, love and success, she used the memories of her past, and the way that she lived, to forge her own independence. Featuring designs, drawings, archive imagery and contemporary photography, Living with Coco Chanel provides a fascinating insight into Chanel's life, work and legacy.\"--provided by publisher.
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“Paris Thin”: A Call to Regulate Life-Threatening Starvation of Runway Models in the US Fashion Industry
Being Paris thin is undeniably hazardous; the average international runway model's BMI is typically below the World Health Organization's threshold for medically dangerous thinness for adults (16). Runway models are, by definition and professional necessity, starving to death. As one fashion editor explained, \"the ideal body shape used as a starting point for a [designer ' s] collection [is] a female on the brink of hospitalization from starvation.\"1 Not only does this threaten the livelihood of models, but it also perpetuates unrealistic-even deadly- expectations of what women and adolescent girls should look like to achieve the \"perfect body.\"
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The effectiveness of female nudity in advertising in three European countries
Purpose - The paper attempts to gain a better understanding of the reasons for advertisers to use nudity in European advertising campaigns and, more precisely, whether a print ad that uses nudity is more or less effective than an ad without nudity in the Czech Republic, Spain, and France.Design methodology approach - An experiment carried out in three European countries (Czech Republic, Spain, France) exposes young consumers to an experimental magazine containing an advertisement that shows either a woman's face or her topless body.Findings - Nationality does not appear to influence preferences for advertisements with or without nudity. Although differences emerge among the three countries in attitudes toward the ad (Aad), they are independent of the ad type and consistently reflect the same trends within each country. Gender influences Aad, and women adopt more negative Aad when they see nudity compared with when they do not, in contrast with men, regardless of their country.Research limitations implications - Attitudes toward advertising in general vary significantly among European countries, even for seemingly homogeneous targets. Specific adaptations likely are needed not just with regard to nudity but more generally in terms of the content of ads.Practical implications - Advertisers that question the relevance of nudity in their advertising campaigns should take great care to define their target market by gender - even more so than in terms of the European country in which the advertising will appear.Originality value - Women adopt more negative attitudes toward advertisements that use sexy female models than do men, and this effect is independent of nationality in a European context.
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'To Care for Her Beauty, to Dress Up, Is a Kind of Work': Simone de Beauvoir, Fashion, and Feminism
[...]leading fashion designer Coco Chanel, who had spent the war years living in luxury at the Ritz Hotel with her Nazi lover, was fortunate; she was simply exiled to Switzerland. English novelist Nancy Mitford, living in Paris and dressed by Dior, in her long letters home makes this same point - that her outfits, a silent reminder of class privilege and financial power, provoked complete strangers to shout obscenities at her in the very streets of Paris itself (1993, 124).
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