A friend of the greatest poets, writers, musicians and artists of her time, but also a great reader, Gabrielle Chanel found the answers to her own intuitions in literature and poetry.
Throughout her life, books and their authors influenced the famous couturier’s trajectory, nourishing her imagination and teaching her how to inscribe her vision of the world in time.
With “CULTURE CHANEL, La femme qui lit”, author and curator Jean-Louis Froment takes us into the creative intimacy of Gabrielle Chanel.
Playing on analogies and visual correspondences through texts, dedications, photographs, paintings, drawings, jewelry, perfumes and fashion creations, this book sheds light on Gabrielle Chanel’s aesthetic vocabulary, in the light of the works that accompanied her and revealed her to herself. This dialogue through the ages, from Antiquitý to her contemporaries, is marked out in particular by the works of Plato, Saint Augustine, William Shakespeare, Alexandre Pushkin, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Stéphane Mallarmé, and resonates with the authors she rubbed shoulders with and appreciated, such as Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob or Jean Cocteau.
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