{"product_id":"9781419725449","title":"Coco Chanel : Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress by Susan Goldman Rubin","description":"Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces?readers to the most well-known fashion designer?in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco's development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent helped her gain worldwide recognition. Coco Chanel focuses on the obstacles Chanel faced as a financially independent woman in an era when women were expected to marry;?as well as her fierce competition with the Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli;?and some of her most memorable firsts for the fashion industry, including the little black dress, the quilted purse with gold chain, and the perfume Chanel No. 5.?The book includes a bibliography, a list of where to see her work, and an index.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299440865653,"sku":"9781419725449","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781419725449.jpg?v=1762785524","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781419725449","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}