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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman..

Axel Madsen (May 27, 1930 – April 23, 2007) was a Danish-American biographer and journalist.

Gabrielle Chanel began as a kept woman making hats for her lover's other mistresses and went on to become fashion's greatest career woman.

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman.

Chanel manifested Paris as the international center of fashion at an early age, and was considered an outstanding style icon of her time even at.

Cover of: Coco Chanel by Axel Madsen, Axel Madsen.

Axel Madsen

American journalist

Axel Madsen (May 27, 1930 – April 23, 2007) was a Danish-Americanbiographer and journalist.

Born in Copenhagen and raised in Paris, Madsen turned from music to writing in the early 1950s, initially for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune.

In 1956 he moved to Canada and began working for United Press International. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s and began writing biographies.^[1]

Books

Madsen wrote on topics such as cross country truck drivers and the CBS news magazine "60 minutes".

Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (n'inglés).

He was best known for his biographies of Hollywood celebrities, fashion pioneers, and business titans.^[2] Biographies included Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck, Coco Chanel, Greta Garbo, John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, Yves St.

Laurent, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, William C. Durant, William Wyler, and John Huston. In 1980, he wrote a science fiction novel called Unisave.

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