Coco Chanel - Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress

Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces;readers to the most well-known fashion designer;in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry;;as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli;;and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5.;The book includes a bibliography, a list of where to see her work, and an index.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Goldman Rubin, Rubin Susan Goldman
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781419725449
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-2544-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art & artists