Gabrielle chanel biography book

It’s been more than a decade since Justine Picardie released her book “Coco Chanel,” during which time interest in the late designer’s life and work has only seemed to expand.

The legacy of Chanel, carried on by Karl Lagerfeld, was explored in this year’s Costume Institute exhibit at the Met Museum in New York, a documentary called “Coco Chanel Unbuttoned” is out from the BBC and this fall the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is showing “Gabrielle Chanel.

Fashion Manifesto.” In the time since the release of “Coco Chanel,” Picardie’s access to Chanel’s life has expanded with new access to the Royal Archives, among others, which called for an updated new edition of her book, out now from HarperCollins. 

Picardie, who was formerly the editor in chief of the U.K.

editions of Harper’s Bazaar and Town and Country, has long been