Coco chanel biography pdf download

If you are interested in Chanel you should read this but there are some caveats. First the photographs and reproductions are excellent but, instead of being grouped in the center as with many biographies, they are scattered throughout, and perhaps to ennhance them, all the paper has some gloss, which makes it very tiring to read the text due to glare.

Second, the text is in a sans serif font with thin lines which is very hard on the eyes. It would be very stylish for short texts or ads, but for a book length text it's not appropriate and along with the glare from the choice of paper makes reading this extremely difficult.Finally on content: the book goes on and on about Chanel's friends and lovers at the expense of discussion of her work as a designer.

Because she obfuscated her childhood the chapters on Chanel's life up to the early 1920s are difficult to follow and the book doesn't move exactly chronolo