Topic: Etienne Balsan
THE ALLURE OF CHANEL by Paul Morand, translated by Euan Cameron Pushkin Press, 12, pp. It's written in her voice ('that voice that gushed forth from her mouth like lava') and in her words ('those words that crackled like dried vines ...
Containing more smoking than a season and a half of Mad Men, Chanel begins in 1954, when the 71-year-old designer (Shirley MacLaine) is about to release her first collection in 15 years, which is widely seen as irrelevant to the era. Cue ...
