A review by treehuggeranonymous
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie

2.0

I found this a bit of a disappointing read. Mostly because of an article I read citing this book as a source for Chanel being a Nazi. This was hardly dealt with in the book except to say that Chanel was probably not a Nazi, just a horrible person who tried to take advantage of the circumstances to further her business interests. This book doesn't seem say anything certain about Chanel's history - like I get that she obscured a lot her past, but I also feel like I should come out of the book with an increased knowledge of Chanel and not just more questions.
This book is probably really interesting for any die-hard Chanel fans (a group to which the author clearly belongs) but get boring pretty fast for anyone with just a passing interest in the topic.