Chanel Haute Couture

At the age of 15, Sofia Coppola began a summer internship at the Chanel studio in Paris. She moved from her childhood home in Northern California. This indelible experience was the beginning of a relationship with the fashion house that flourished for decades and resulted in numerous collaborations. In the luxurious and immersive coffee table book "Chanel Haute Couture ' Coppola presents the visual history of Chanel's haute couture designs with her signature style of collages.

The story of the iconic fashion house unfolds in this 450-page coffee table book through unseen sketches, photographs of Chanel clients wearing creations, photos from the catwalk and archival material. This book covers the different eras of Chanel's main designers - Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard - their teams, their famous clientele and the models of each period, seen by renowned photographers. It is a definitive guide to the extraordinary creations that have influenced generations of designers and a piece of fashion history in itself.