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Chanel expert Isabelle Fiemeyer offers a rare, deeply personal look into the life of the iconic designer Coco Chanel. This biography draws from exclusive interviews with Chanel’s closest family members and extensive archival research to reveal the designer’s most private world—her love for symbolism and poetry, her romantic relationships, and her enduring bond with her nephew, André Palasse, whom she raised as her own son. His daughter, Gabrielle Palasse-Labrunie—Chanel’s goddaughter and only direct descendant—shares intimate memories and access to her great-aunt’s cherished collection of fashion, jewelry, and art. Divided into five chronological sections, the book immerses readers in Chanel’s life, unveiling rarely seen personal artifacts: gifts from her great love, Boy Capel, as well as her furniture, favorite jewelry, talismans, garments, family photos, and correspondence. This new text expands upon Fiemeyer’s research from her previous books on the designer and includes the compelling chapter “Alias Coco,” which explores newly uncovered documents from French Secret Service archives, shedding light on Chanel’s clandestine activities during World War II and her connections to the Resistance.

In this celebration of style, from the moment she entered the public eye during her husband’s U.S. Senate campaign through her time as the first Black First Lady and today as one of this country’s most influential figures, Michelle Obama shares how she uses the beauty and intrigue of fashion to draw attention to her message. Featuring the voices of Meredith Koop, Obama’s trusted stylist, as well as her makeup artist Carl Ray, hairstylists Yene Damtew, Johnny Wright, and Njeri Radway, and many of the designers who have dressed Obama for notable events, The Look brings readers behind the scenes not only to reveal how her most memorable looks came together but also to tell a powerful story about how we present ourselves. Obama’s intimate and candid stories illuminate how her approach to dressing has evolved throughout her life—from the colorful sheath dresses, cardigans, and brooches she wore during her time as First Lady to the bold suits, denim, and braids of her post-White House life and all the active looks and beautiful gowns in between.

El dibujo es una herramienta cognitiva y creativa fundamental a la hora de abordar el proyecto arquitectónico. Bajo esta premisa Francis D. K. Ching nos ofrece en este libro una guía de referencia con la que aprender a utilizar el dibujo como técnica para pensar el proyecto.Organizado en tres grandes bloques que pasan de lo más descriptivo a lo especulativo —dibujo por observación, sistemas convencionales de representación gráfica y dibujo imaginativo—, el libro explica paso a paso la gran multiplicidad de conceptos y técnicas que entran en juego en el dibujo arquitectónico: desde los principios básicos de la expresión gráfica (la línea, la forma, la sombra o el espacio), hasta los sistemas de representación más frecuentes (el sistema diédrico, la axonometría y la perspectiva cónica) o los innumerables conceptos y herramientas existentes (tales como el rayado, la orientación, la escala, la estratificación o la diagramación).Además de los 1.500 dibujos ilustrados a mano y los cerca de 140 ejercicios que incluye el libro, esta nueva edición ampliada incorpora técnicas de dibujo por ordenador e incluye un CD con tutoriales. El estudiante de arquitectura y el arquitecto encontrarán en estas páginas una ayuda práctica y didáctica no solo para representar los proyectos, sino también para pensar espacialmente.

Ottavi enjoyed a rare degree of open and candid access to Lagerfeld in his later years, and this biography offers an unparalleled look into the iconic designer’s complex personality and wide-ranging creativity. Lagerfeld himself wanted this to be a frank, honest, serious account that would be an invaluable resource for fashion lovers and admirers of his incomparable legacy. Unlike other recent books, this intimate portrait deftly reveals his true inner nature in his own words.

This is the first of Pentreath’s books to present his own output in its entirety—from his personal residences in Dorset, London, and Scotland that brought him international fame to many old and new houses that he has designed and some of the larger, town-scaled projects that make his practice unique in the world of traditional design. Although the results range from his colorful and romantic versions of the English country cottage to traditional splendor, there are underlying ideas that inform the breadth of his output—a sense of scale, proportion, craft, detail, sustainability, and appropriateness—that have a universal relevance today.