Chanel: Couture and Industry
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In this beautifully illustrated book, dress historian Amy de la Haye celebrates Gabrielle Coco Chanel as the couturire who changed the way stylish women everywhere dress, then and now. She examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s to the present day as it continues to prosper under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld.
Author/Artist/Designer
Amy de la HayePages
128
Dimensions
20.96cm x 1.27cm x 24.77cm
ISBN
9781851776436
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Product code
110126
Book Format
Softback
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Amy de la Haye
Amy de la Haye is a curator and dress historian. She holds a Readership at London College of Fashion and was formerly Curator of 20th Century Fashion at the V&A. She is the author of Lucile (V&A 2009) with Valerie Mendes, Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day (V&A 2011) and editor of the A to Z of Style (V&A 2011).