New Books About Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli - The New York Times

Oct 2, 2014 - Fiercely independent thinkers—and bitter rival—Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli changed the course of style forever. This fall, their biographers Rhonda K. Garelick and Meryle Secrest shed new light on two extraordinary lives.

Chanel vs. Schiaparelli: Fashion's Greatest Rivalry

Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography review – no ordinary fashion designer, Biography books

From a high heel-shaped “shoe hat” to a dress sporting printed-on rips, the collaborations of Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí were marvelously strange.

Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli Made Dalí's Art Wearable

Elsa Schiaparelli

Coco Chanel: How World Wars Built a Fashion Empire — Lyons Feel

Coco Chanel escaped to the Riviera. The war followed her there.

ELSA SCHIAPARELLI: SHOCK AND AWE - 10 Magazine

Coco Chanel: Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress by Susan Goldman Rubin

Shocking Life by Elsa Schiaparelli

Fashion sense: Perkins' Recommended Reads – Perkins School for the Blind

News creation : Few designers in history have been as written about as Coco Chanel, founder of the single largest luxury fashion house in the world. She is the subject of the retrospective opening Wednesday night in Paris. (#1247859)

Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto: A retrospective on Coco, not the brand