Informationen zum Autor Based in England, Amy de la Haye is a curator, writer, dress historian, and fashion critic. Klappentext In Chanel: Couture and Industry, fashion critic and historian Amy de la Hayepresentsthe story of Chanel's rise from milliner to glamorous global brand. For over a century, the name Chanel has been synonymous with feminine elegance, modernity, and innovation in fashion. This lavishly illustrated book, expanded and updated, examines the creative output of Gabrielle Coco Chanel (18831971) over the course of her long career and documents the creation and meteoric rise of the Chanel fashion empire and the products that bear its exclusive label: haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry, and perfumes. A final chapter looks at the fashion house after Chanel, specifically the vision of creative director Karl Lagerfeld, who, from 1983 until his death in 2019, ensured that the brand retained its position as the forefront of fashion's vanguard, as well as the reinterpretation of Chanel fashion signatures by his successor, Virginie Viard, today. Zusammenfassung This revised and updated book celebrates Chanel as the couturiere who changed the way stylish women dress, then and now. It examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s through Karl Lagerfeld's incredibly successful tenure, and to the present day as it continues to prosper under Virginie Viard.

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Based in England, Amy de la Haye is a curator, writer, dress historian, and fashion critic.

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For over a century, the name of Chanel has been synonymous with feminine elegance, modernity and innovation in fashion.

This lavishly illustrated book, newly expanded and updated, examines the creative output of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971) over the course of her long career and documents the creation and meteoric rise of the Chanel fashion empire and the products that bear its exclusive label - haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewellery and perfumes.

A final chapter looks at the House after Chanel: the vision of creative director Karl Lagerfeld who from 1983 until his death in 2019 ensured that the brand retained its position at the forefront of fashion's vanguard; and the reinterpreting of Chanel fashion signatures by his successor, Virginie Viard, today.

Zusammenfassung
This revised and updated book celebrates Chanel as the couturiere who changed the way stylish women dress, then and now. It examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s through Karl Lagerfeld's incredibly successful tenure, and to the present day as it continues to prosper under Virginie Viard.