Scandalous Women in Fashion: Chanel and Isabella Blow
I picked up the following two books recently at the bookstore. One is a new biography of Chanel entitled, COCO CHANEL: The legend and the Life by Justine Picardie. Everyone knows who Gabrille 'Coco' Chanel was, or at least they know the name of her fashion house, even if they don't know who she was. This book is expensive, $40.00 (although right now you can buy it at bn.com for $22), but it is filled with amazing photographs. I spent the first few days that I had the book just looking at the photographs, without even reading the text. As a biography, Picardie doesn't reveal much new information about Chanel, but it is an entertaining read. I particularly enjoyed the description at the beginning of the book of her visit to Chanel's apartment. I would put this on my shelf next to my Axel Madsen biography. The other new book I picked up recently is one of three new biographies of the late stylist, beauty editor and fashion muse, Isabella Blow. One of the other bo