Le Temps Chanel
Paris: Chêne/Grasset, 1979. 1st Edition. Large quarto, publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in white, original illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of French writer and Vogue editor Edmonde Charles-Roux’s illustrated biography of Coco Chanel. A close friend of the iconic fashion designer and her official biographer, Charles-Roux provides an in-depth account of her life and career, from her childhood at an orphanage, her failed attempt as a cabaret singer, job as a milliner, and rise to prominence as one of the most famous fashion designers of all time. Illustrated mostly in black-and-white with over six hundred photos of Chanel, her contemporaries (Picasso, Stravinsky, Cocteau, Renoir, Visconti, among others), models and celebrities in her designs, reproductions of drawings, and more; with an index. Text in French. Light rubbing, soiling, and edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Very good. Item #12599
$150.00