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Coco Chanel: A Biography

Coco Chanel’s genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell – Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roue, Boy Capel; a French poet; and, a German spy and the Duke of Westminster, who offered to leave his wife for her permanently, if she would only bear him an heir. Paradoxically, though she might have been regarded in some lights as a pioneering feminist – sacrificing marriage to a revolutionary career in couture – Chanel was utterly baffled by the idea of women’s politics. Educated women? ‘A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stockings, never go out without a hat’. Chanel’s rise from penniless orphan to millionaire designer – ‘inventing’ sportswear, the little black dress and number 5 – makes compellin

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The Life of Coco Chanel Explored Further in New Book

It’s been more than a decade since Justine Picardie released her book “Coco Chanel,” during which time interest in the late designer’s life and work has only seemed to expand.

The legacy of Chanel, carried on by Karl Lagerfeld, was explored in this year’s Costume Institute exhibit at the Met Museum in New York, a documentary called “Coco Chanel Unbuttoned” is out from the BBC and this fall the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is showing “Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto.” In the time since the 2010 release of “Coco Chanel,” Picardie’s access to Chanel’s life has expanded with new access to the Royal Archives, among others, which called for an updated new edition of her book, out now from HarperCollins. 

Picardie, who was formerly the editor in chief of the U.K. editions of Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, has long