This dozen included fashion designers from different eras — from Rose Bertin, who dressed Marie Antoinette, to our contemporaries Sonia Rykiel, Vivienne Westwood and Miuccia Prada. The author managed to find unknown facts even in the replicated biography of Coco Chanel.
This dozen included fashion designers from different eras — from Rose Bertin, who dressed Marie Antoinette, to our contemporaries Sonia Rykiel, Vivienne Westwood and Miuccia Prada. The author managed to find unknown facts even in the replicated biography of Coco Chanel. For example, about why she always refused to sew wedding dresses. It turns out that in her entire life she created only one such outfit — for her sister. The marriage turned out to be unhappy, and the superstitious Chanel left this area to other couturiers. In addition, the book publishes for the first time her interview in 1966 in full, in which the great Mademoiselle, with her usual frankness, speaks about Yves Saint Laurent, the British and female loneliness. The only pity is that the numerous descriptions of ruffles, flounces, pleats and other finds are not accompanied by a single photograph or a single drawing. In a fashion book, this would be very helpful.
Word, 432 p.