Collection A Novel

Name: Collection A Novel
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ISBN: 9780743280662

ISBN-10: 0743280660

ISBN-13: 9780743280662

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gioia Diliberto

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Isabelle Varlet, charming and naïve, comes from a long line of seamstresses in a small town in France. A series of unfortunate events and her prodigious sartorial talent carry her to Paris, which in the wake of World War I is electric with new life. When Isabelle takes a job in the atelier of Coco Chanel, the rising star of haute couture, she finds herself in the heart of a glamorous and ruthless world filled with arrogant designers, handsome men, beautiful women, and fashion thieves who prowl Paris hoping to steal designs before they hit the runway. In Chanel's workshop, Isabelle thrives on the time-honored techniques of couture -- the pains-taking hand stitches, the perfect fall of fabric…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Gioia Diliberto is the author of the biographies A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams and Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier , and the historical novels I Am Madame X and The Collection . She lives in Chicago.