Fashion Week may have ended but you can keep style alive with Karen Karbo’s enlightening, empowering and just plain fun “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman.”
Most biographies can get pretty dry, giving the blah blah blah chronological life story of a person, but Karen’s book is chatty — written like a conversation with an old friend — witty, and spiced with personal anecdotes and her own thoughtful opinions.
Sure, the subject here is inherently fascinating – this is Coco Chanel, after all, and Karen gives you a detailed account of how she became the undisputed queen of fashion – but the book also shows you how to use her hard-earned lessons to live the life you want. This doesn’t mean going out and buying a lot of pieces you can’t afford – in fact, Chanel admonished, “Nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness and complications.” It’s all about being comfortable in your clothes – and in your skin.
Read my interview with Karen, and then enter to win your own copy of this life-changing guide. It will become the centerpiece of your book collection much the way that little black dress is your wardrobe basic.
This post originally appeared on my former blog, StyleSubstanceSoul.
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