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Andy Warhol “Giant” Size
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Chanel: The Impossible Collection
The hundred Chanel pieces that defined a century, hand-bound.
$995.00
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- Author
- Alexander Fury
- Publisher
- Assouline
- Published
- January 2019
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Clamshell hardcover
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
One Hundred Pieces Argue a Century
Gabrielle Chanel dressed women in jersey when it was underwear cloth, cut the little black dress in 1926, bottled No. 5 in 1921 and hung the quilted 2.55 bag on a chain so that hands could be free. The fashion critic Alexander Fury selects the hundred Chanel pieces he judges to have mattered most, from her own decades and from Karl Lagerfeld's long custodianship of the house.
Assouline produced the volume in 2019 in its Ultimate Collection format, hand-bound and cased in a clamshell box, an object built to the standard of its subject. The selection is an argument as much as an inventory, that one house, more than any other, decided what the twentieth-century woman would wear.
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