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Chanel : The Vocabulary of Style

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  • Author:
    GAUTIER Jerome
  • ISBN:
    9780500515815
  • Publication Date:
    0/11/2011
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    304
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Thames and Hudson
  • Country of Publication:
Chanel : The Vocabulary of Style
Chanel : The Vocabulary of Style

Chanel : The Vocabulary of Style

Regular price $156.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    GAUTIER Jerome
  • ISBN:
    9780500515815
  • Publication Date:
    0/11/2011
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    304
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Thames and Hudson
  • Country of Publication:

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Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials.

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  • Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials.

    Featured in the November 2011 Creative Enterprises newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

Gabrielle Coco Chanel was, without doubt, the most influential designer of the 20th century. This book honours her influence by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Juxtaposing fashion plates from Chanels own time with the most recent creations by Karl Lagerfeld, such as Cecil Beaton's portrait of Coco Chanel presented alongside one of Cate Blanchett by Lagerfeld himself, the resonance between archive and contemporary photographs becomes sharp, vibrant and telling. The vocabulary of Chanel's style the little black dress, baroque inspirations, androgynous chic is revealed in eleven chapters that compare original forms in the 1920s with the full range of their later expressions through every fashion era. Chanel's legendary fashion house continues to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennials.

Featured in the November 2011 Creative Enterprises newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.