Book Review: The Real Coco Chanel

The Real Coco Chanel

by Rose Sgueglia

Pen & Sword

White Owl

Biographies & Memoirs. |. Nonfiction (Adult)

Pub Date 30 Jun 2020

I am reviewing a copy of The Real Coco Chanel through Pen & Sword/ White Owl and Netgalley:

Coco Chanel lived the life as a romantic heroine. Fueled in part by the romantic literature of the nineteenth century, a life that was partly fiction and partly fact.

Coco Chanel did not only help redefine fashion, but also changed the views of what it meant to be a woman.

It was Coco Chanel who turned the little black dress into a fashion statement at a time when black was meant for mourning. She was also one of the first women to wear pants.

Coco Chanel was the fashion designer that was admired by everyone. A business woman whose fortune was impossible to track. Coco Chanel was also a performer, she was the lover of many high profile intellectuals, and she was believed to be a Nazi Spy by some.

Her life was extraordinarily affected by history (World War 2, the Nazi Movement). And it was affected by symbolism and literature.

This biography tells of how Coco Chanel overcame a troubled and poor past, to become one of the most recognized names in Fashion.

I give The Real Coco Chanel five out of five stars.

Happy. Reading!