Book Review: I am Coco

Award-winning French illustrator Isabel Pin turns her consideration to the lifetime of Coco Chanel on this charming e-book geared toward children aged six and over – and like all good youngsters’s books, it’s an amazing learn for adults too.

The attractive drawings carry to life the story of Gabrielle, from her youth as an orphan in a convent college to her work as a seamstress and cabaret singer to being one of the influential vogue designers the world has ever recognized. Younger readers will learn the way her earliest creations presaged the idea of sportswear and uncover her iconic designs: the little black gown, the impeccable go well with, the squared-off fragrance bottle and the acclaimed brand.

And they’ll learn the way a free-thinking younger artist who freed ladies from the extravagant ornamentations of the early twentieth century grew right into a ferociously formidable designer who modified the best way ladies gown.

I am Coco
Isabel Pin
£12.99
Prestel

From France At present journal