31 Jan 2010 @ 10:46 PM
- ISBN13: 9781599215235
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Chanel is credited not simply with giving us the little black dress and boxy jackets, but popularising pants for women and easy, practical clothes that allowed women a chic freedom they’d never known before. In her stron… More >>
The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman
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Getting better acquainted with our icons brings us a step closer to understanding history and our society. Women who would like some extra encouragement to work towards their dreams should read this. This book will be both entertaining and reignite your passions.
Rating: 5 / 5
Upon reading some of the other reviews I’d like to agree with both the positive and the negative. I found some parts of this book to be interesting. Especially the parts about Chanel no.5 and her lovers. However, I thought that the book should have been more centered on Chanel and not nearly as much on the author. There were also several comments on how pricey Chanel’s products were both now and then. I didn’t find this necessary as the brand is obviously targeted towards the upper class demographic.
Rating: 3 / 5
Although there are many books about Coco Chanel, this one stands apart from the rest. Not just another biography, the author Karen Karbo extracts the lessons from the story of Chanel’s life and frames them in a way that is useful to the modern woman. Written with a great deal of wit, I wanted to laugh out loud at times, especially when the author writes about a visit to Didier Ludot in Paris to find a vintage Chanel jacket. Karbo is charmingly cheeky and does not gush over the myth of Chanel. She writes with refreshing honesty about Chanel’s many flaws including Chanel’s disdain for her arch rival Elsa Schiaparelli, her ill-fated affair with a Nazi officer during the war, and her legendary snarky temperment. And still, the book presents a witty and delightful manifesto for living life fearlessly, passionately and with elegance like the revered Coco Chanel.
Rating: 5 / 5
What a delightful read. I knew very little about Coco Chanel, but Karen Karbo presents her to the reader with a great style that is all her own. I am now looking forward to reading more of her work.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a brilliant modern portrayal of Coco Chanel. I’m getting a very important message from this book. ‘Don’t be afraid of yourself’. Women everywhere should read this book. I went to see the recent movie in the hope of being inspired but the movie didn’t deliver as much as this book. It’s really, really good. The best book I’ve read in a long time. What a smart woman Coco Chanel was. This book really manages to portray that and communicate her life lessons to you in a witty, humorous and stylish way.
Rating: 5 / 5