RI author shows Coco Chanel story

  The story of the return of Coco Chanel in the world of haute couture at the age of 71 years, is described in a new book.

Based on his first-hand experience working with Chanel to create a new showroom for Chanel perfume in the 1950s, the author reveals Richard Parker an unknown chapter in the career of legendary fashion designer who always fascinated.

Parker's book reveals never told for Chanel perfume in Manhattan details of the proposed creation of a new showroom and office.

Frames Chanel asked "Miss" from the self-imposed exile in Switzerland after the Second World War, a chair, filled the art design reminds his plush Parisian apartment.

His charm, sharp wit and glamor quickly enamored of the New York press, encouraged him to return to Paris, to create the first Chanel couture collection in 13 years. When he left it, the press called American fashion collection for Chanel in New York to bring. The popularity of collection in the United States started its improbable return to the celebrity fashion.

Parker, a young man, Army veteran, and a graduate of the Rhode Iceland School of Design, has been in the position of Assistant because of the power struggle between the two major groups, Gregory Thomas, the powerful thrust president of America Chanel and Tom Lee, the legendary Designer Miss exposure. Since both alpha males were often at a dead end, the responsibility for advancing the project often fell to Parker, who had little experience with, to take difficult technical decisions that would normally fall to a well-seasoned artists.

Parker noted that with Mademoiselle Chanel, a workaholic, was actually a pleasure. She was happy to be creative again, and under his supervision, well ahead of the showroom.

The exhibition hall was a great success in the United States. A member of Vogue in 1953, said he was the "unmistakable impression Chanel herself, a little dynamo of a woman, sharp, nervous, invariably French, with a particular taste that some people are of perfect pitch."

In addition to discussing the key project of Chanel's career, Parker also revives busts many myths that continue the Chanel legacy 42 years after his death dog. Parker is especially irritated by two myths: she is a prostitute, to become a fashion mogul with money and influence men, and together with the Nazis during the war.

Details of Parker's books when they received financial support from the fans from the beginning, she insisted to pay their debts and made his own fortune.

At the height of his fame, employs 4,000 people and Chanel had five factories in France.

Parker, a retired head of the advertising department and textile industries as well as an accomplished painter, lives in Wakefield, Rhode Iceland.

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