Linda Simon is a professor of English at Skidmore College and the author of a new take on Chanel’s life as part of Reaktion Books’ Critical Lives series. It’s a short biography, mostly focused on how Chanel left the world changed, although there is a little wrestling with the legend there as well.
I spoke to Simon about Chanel’s life after death, our gossipy interest in powerful women and what she shares with the subjects of previous Simon biographies.
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