What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion

Name: What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion
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By Caroline Young

Series: Icons with Attitude

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In What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion by Caroline Young, readers explore the life and legacy of fashion icon Coco Chanel. The book delves into her revolutionary ideas and timeless style, illustrating how her innovations in design transformed the fashion industry. Through vivid storytelling, it uncovers the enduring influence of Chanel in shaping modern fashion.
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This book may appeal to you if you admire iconic fashion designers and are intrigued by Chanel's enduring influence on style and elegance. Caroline Young offers insights into how Chanel redefined the fashion industry, providing a fascinating blend of history, biography, and practical fashion advice. Whether you're a fashion enthusiast or someone interested in cultural trends, you'll find inspiration in Chanel's innovative spirit and timeless legacy.

What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion

Launching a new series, What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion breaks down Coco Channels life, work and legacy into 36 highly visual lessons. Covering the iconic looks, Chanel's inspiration and the details that define her sartorial tastes.

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Discover the life, work and legacy of Coco Chanel in bite-sized, highly visual lessons concentrating on her artistic spirit, influences, and attitude. Chanel's ethos captured the imagination of post-war women, releasing them from the corseted silhouette and changing what we wore forever. But it was her unique perspective that secured her a place in sartorial legend.

What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion breaks down her life and work into 36 key lessons, covering:

The Looks: Combine the masculine and feminine, poverty can be luxury.
The Inspiration: Read the history books, look to your location.
The Details: There's simplicity in embellishment, faux jewellery can be stylish.

You will learn how she channelled her experiences to create styles that spoke to generations; how she broke societal rules through her use of fabrics; how she was influenced by the muses and artists around her; and more.

With inspirational photographs from the past 100 years, this is a must-have for fashion lovers and students. The Icons with Attitude series explores the lessons we can learn from inspiring creatives. Small and beautifully formed, if you like fashion, What Alexander McQueen Can Teach You About Fashion is also available.

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What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion

By Caroline Young

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What Coco Chanel Can Teach You About Fashion by Caroline Young is praised for its exploration of Chanel's influence on modern fashion. Reviewers appreciate the book for its insightful anecdotes and stylish illustrations, which both entertain and provide practical inspiration for those interested in the fashion industry and Chanel’s personal philosophies. Professional critiques highlight the book’s elegant design and engaging content, making it a valuable addition to fashion literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711259096

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Illustration: 100

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 151.0mm

Height: 189.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Caroline Young Musicians, Movie Stars & Creative Biographies Non-Fiction Series: Icons with Attitude

About the Author

Caroline Young is an Edinburgh-based writer and fashion journalist. She is the author of Classic Hollywood Style (2012), Style Tribes (2016), Tartan and Tweed (2017) and Living with Coco Chanel (2019).