Coco Chanel_ An Intimate Life - Lisa Chaney [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Forebears
Chapter 2 - The Bad One
Chapter 3 - The Lost Years
Chapter 4 - Things That I Should Be and Which I Am Not
Chapter 5 - A Rich Man’s Game
Chapter 6 - Captive Mistress
Chapter 7 - Arthur Capel
Chapter 8 - Refashioning Paris
Chapter 9 - The Rite of Spring
Chapter 10 - The End of an Epoque
Chapter 11 - Master of Her Art
Chapter 12 - The War Bans the Bizarre
Chapter 13 - Remember That You’re a Woman
Chapter 14 - Alone
Chapter 15 - Beginning Again
Chapter 16 - The Strangest and Most Brilliant Years
Chapter 17 - Dmitri Pavlovich
Chapter 18 - The Lucky N° 5
Chapter 19 - Entirely in White and Covered in Pearls
Chapter 20 - Reverdy
Chapter 21 - At the Center
Chapter 22 - Bend’Or
Chapter 23 - The Crash
Chapter 24 - Schiap Had Lots of It but It Was Bad
Chapter 25 - War
Chapter 26 - Survival
Chapter 27 - Von Dincklage
Chapter 28 - Exile
Chapter 29 - Return: 1954
Chapter 30 - I Prefer Disaster to Nothingness
Chapter 31 - I Only Hear My Heart on the Stairs
AFTERWORD
Acknowledgements
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
VIKING
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chaney, Lisa.
Coco Chanel : an intimate life / Lisa Chaney.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN : 978-1-101-54586-7
1. Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971. 2. Fashion designers—France—Biography. 3. Women fashion designers—France—Biography. I. Title.
TT505.C45C456 2011
746.9’2092—dc23
[B]
2011026497
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For Anna
(And in memory of our mother, Elizabeth [1923–2009])
“Capel said, ‘Remember that you’re a woman.’
All too often I forgot that.”1
INTRODUCTION
Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel was a woman of singular character, intelligence and imagination. These attributes enabled her to survive a childhood of deprivation and neglect and reinvent herself to become one of the most influential women of her century. Unlike any previous female couturier, her own life quickly became synonymous with the revolutionary style that