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The French are famous for high culture or haute couture as we call. Read about great fashion and style and get ready to stroll the Champs Elysees when you get to Paris.

Chanel : A Woman of Her Own  by Axel Madsen  Chanel – This name tells everything. Her lies about her private life, lots of unanswered questions make her a mystery. Now Axel Madsen tells Chanel's story.  Paperback (September 1991)   Buy now!

Chanel (The Universe of Fashion)  by Francois Baudot  Baudot tells us about the evolution of the CHANEL name to the entity known today, with Karl Lagerfeld. Including great photos and drawings it is a great book for every fashion lover.  Hardcover - 80 pages (September 1996)   Buy now!

 
 

Christian Dior : The Man Who Made the World Look New  by Marie France Pochna, Joanna Savill (Translator)  This biography of Christian Dior, “the king of fashion”, by Pochna is complete and telling. With pictures of some of his works it shows the man that stands behind this famous name.  Hardcover (September 1996)   Buy now!

Christian Dior  by Richard Martin, Harold Koda (Contributor), Karin L. Willis (Photographer)  An album of photos of masterpieces of Christian Dior's shown in New York in the Metropolitain Museum of Art in 1996. It is both interesting and informative - two words that usually don't co-exist in most fashion references.  Hardcover (January 1997)   Buy now!