Chanel
Axel Madsen. Holt McDougal, $23 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-1639-0
French designer Gabrielle ``Coco'' Chanel (1883-1971) created elegant women's clothing and had a succession of celebrated friends and lovers from Winston Churchill to Igor Stravinsky. ``Madsen does a commendable job of ferreting out the seeming truth of a woman apparently as deft at fabricating her own life as she was with a needle and thread,'' said PW. Photos. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 09/16/1991
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 388 pages - 978-0-8050-0961-3
Open Ebook - 364 pages - 978-1-5040-0853-2
