Keepsake Book | Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications)

collectors and couturiéres | Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) | Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton

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	• Chanel (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005 - 216 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I bought this book after seeing the Chanel exhibit at the Met. The pictures are nice, but I wish they showed more pictures of real people wearing clothes as opposed to the eccentric mannequins they used in the exhibit. A couple of blank pages here and there. I wish there was slightly more history behind the clothes. Still not a bad coffee table book on Chanel

Keepsake Book

This is a beautiful book and one you would love to have in your home. Of course, since I work for the company it is dear to me. I have given this book to three different people and they all have loved it. If you want to give something special to someone-- this is it.

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collectors and couturiéres

I am a couturiére to follow my passion and, of course, I already own a bunch of "Mademoiselle Chanel" books. Let's say that I own a couple of meters of fashion monographies and that I love this one.
If you are interested in feeling the details of the artwork of both, Coco+Karl, you will get a number of details to learn about.
Even though it is supposed to be a catalogue, what it is, it can be in the handbook shelf of a loving seammistress.
On Chanel, at this price, you do not get more than the far feeling of her style.
The forewords cover quite well her meaning and her significancy.
As a gift it is quite showy also thanks for the transparent chemise.
it always depends on what you are looking for.

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Marvelous!

While many were critical of this exhibition focusing so much upon M. Lagerfeld, I was not and within the pages of this volume lies the reason.
This catalogue is a tour de force of the CHANEL House of Haute Couture and while in no means exhaustive presents a beautiful overview of the creations offered by both the founder and to the time of printing, of M. Lagerfeld. This is a beautiful catalogue and I highly recommend it to all who adore Haute Couture, Style, and Fashion.

This splendid book examines the legacy of Gabrielle “Coco? Chanel, one of the twentieth century's great icons of style. While Chanel mythologized her glamorous life through relentless self-invention, the bare facts of her biography are no less worthy than her legend: born of a poor family in the provinces and raised in a convent, she was an entertainer and the mistress of men of impeccable social standing, and she began her career not as a dressmaker but as a milliner.
Chanel's enduring influence is necessarily based on the long shadow cast over fashion by her maison couture. Chanel examines the history of the House of Chanel both thematically and chronologically, introducing ideas and elements of biography as they were expressed in her collections. Period examples are juxtaposed with the work of Karl Lagerfeld, who, beginning in 1983, just over ten years after Chanel's death, reinvented and revolutionized the House's identity. It is in Lagerfeld's masterful and often irreverent interpretations of Chanel's work, as well as his mixing of influences from high and low culture, that the historic importance of Chanel and the resonance of her image as the independent, elegant modern woman are both defined and reasserted for the contemporary world.

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