內容簡介
Coco Chanel’s genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell – Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roué, Boy Capel; a French poet; a German spy and the Duke of Westminster, who offered to leave his wife for her permanently, if she would only bear him an heir.
Paradoxically, though she might have been regarded in some lights as a pioneering feminist – sacrificing marriage to a revolutionary career in couture – Chanel was utterly baffled by the idea of women’s politics. Educated women? 'A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stockings, never go out without a hat.’
Chanel’s rise from penniless orphan to millionaire designer – ‘inventing’ sportswear, the little black dress and No. 5 – makes compelling reading, not least because she was inclined to design her own life as deftly as she did her fashions. Axel Madsen negotiates Chanel’s smoke screens with skill, bringing this tantalizing woman to life in all her alluring complexity.
作者簡介
Axel Madsen (born May 27, 1930) was a Danish-American biographer and journalist. Born in Copenhagen and raised in Paris, Madsen turned from music to writing in the early 1950s, initially for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1956 he moved to Canada and began working for United Press International. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s.
Biographies included Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck, Coco Chanel, John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, Yves St. Laurent, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, William C. Durant, William Wyler, and John Huston.He died of cancer in Los Angeles in 2007.
精彩書評
"Axel Madsen's book cuts through the falsehoods. Set against the realism of historical events, it skilfully analyses the creation of the Chanel phenomenon."
--Vogue
"The best yet book on the big C"
--Elle
"A great rags to riches story and the fascination of the gorgon does come through."
--Irish Independent
"A lively biography of the extraordinary fashion designer whose life was from start to finish an extravaganza."
--Financial Times
前言/序言
Coco Chanel可可香奈兒傳記 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書
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紙張粗糙的不行,難道正版有這麼不堪??????看著很影響心情啊
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Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
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非常好,還會購買
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從書的質量到京東服務體驗都非常好,上午訂書,下午就到,太牛瞭!
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《皇帝和他的宮廷:威廉二世與德意誌帝國》是一部文化史和社會史的著作。 旨在分析威廉二世時代德國統治精英階層的結構和心態。 威廉二世猶如一位英國學者所戲稱的,是一個令人費解的“齣色的怪物”。《皇帝和他的宮廷:威廉二世與德意誌帝國》的開篇是對這位非凡統治者的心態和個性的素描,終篇則揭示這位皇帝的反猶太主義之程度和性質。讓世人看到,他的世界觀在痛苦的流亡中變得與阿道夫·希特勒何其相近。 威廉二世,1888年,年僅29歲,他繼承瞭“世界上最沉重的皇冠”。“他是個小孩,一個長不大的小孩。”在他統治的30年裏,一直是個孩子氣的皇帝,狂躁、自負、虐待狂,被法國的外交部長認為有精神病,思維不正常。“我們也要為自己要求陽光下的地盤。”他夢想著開拓東方的殖民地,1900年,“庚子國變”,他是侵華八國聯軍之首,強租中國膠州灣。“一個戰敗者。”他發動第一次世界大戰,即敗走麥城,繼而被國內革命打落瞭皇冠,流落國外,客死異鄉。 他的一生正好經曆瞭德意誌帝國從俾斯麥時期的國傢統一到希特勒時期的自我滅亡的曆史。
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Coco是特彆的女人,她創立的品牌直到今天在時尚界都有著重要的地位,看看她的自傳,想更多的瞭解她……
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還沒看。比想象的字體大,挺好的。
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挺實用的,比彆的品牌強”
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還不錯,很簡潔,不過原著還是很貴的,多讀書,有益