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# Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History Paperback – 14 July 2015

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    Terrific portrait of the great fashion innovator
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on 13 October 2021*

A soup-to-nuts bio of Gabrielle Chanel, known through the globe as "Coco," from her hard-scrabble childhood and youth through her death in her apartment at the Ritz, with an afterward on the subsequent fortunes of Maison Chanel.Coco was a genius, both in design and in marketing. She created THE look of women's clothes which, despite the insertion of hip-hop, the Sixties, and grunge, has persisted in the everyday world. It wasn't just the wealthy who wore her patterns, but -- through knockoffs and ready-to-wear -- the middle class and even working class. Unlike most high-fashion courturiers, she not only didn't worry about knock-offs, she took a weird satisfaction in them. Our notions of fashion elegance derive largely from her. Garelick argues, furthermore, that her greatest creation was her image as a feminine ideal. Her clothes worked best for her own body type -- slim, boyish. In effect, women became Coco clones.Despite her accomplishments, Chanel was more than a little screwed up. Her origins in poverty made her realize that money, to a large extent, eased one's entrance into the beau monde -- although only to a certain extent. She couldn't marry into that world. She depended on its patronage and protection. People tend to react in two ways toward early poverty. The first is a lifelong empathy toward the poor. The second is a lifelong despising and fear, as if the touch of a laborer turns you back into one. She hid or reinvented her history and cut off almost of her family, mainly out of a sense of shame.As she went along, Chanel became increasingly reactionary, leading to active collaboration with the Nazis during the Occupation. She tried to remove her Jewish partners in the perfume business (they had fled to New York) under the racist laws against Jewish ownership, unsuccessfully, believe it or not. The perfumes were her largest source of income. When it was clear the Germans were losing, she switched to where the power lay and denounced at least one of her former friends. Garelick offers a fine discussion not only of the history, still officially sanitized by Maison Chanel, but of the links between fashion and fascism (all those sexy SS uniforms). This part of the book interested me the most.Much of this book makes use of new information, some uncovered by the author herself. Chanel substituted fairy tales for the harsh truth. She even lied for no real reason. Just coming up with a coherent narrative counts as a major achievement, but the book provides so much more and reads beautifully, besides.

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    Great read!
  

*by V***O on Reviewed in Mexico on 18 November 2019*

Very interesting insight on Coco, fashion and history. What makes it special (vs other fashion icon related biographies I’ve read) is that it seem thoroughly studied and it’s beautifully written. Highly recommend it.

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    Merci le vendeur
  
  

*by S***U on Reviewed in France on 8 August 2020*

Merci bien reçue

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