Chanel: Her Life, Her World, and the Woman Behind the Legend

Edmonde Charles-Roux (tr from French Nancy Amphoux)

She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how closely did her carefully moulded image match the truth? Born illegitimate and raised in an orphanage - not by the two aunts that she invented - ...