Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Coco Chanel

BiographiesConsumer brands and retail founders

Made a sporty, casual chic the standard of women's style after the First World War; the only fashion designer on Time's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Chanel

8 biographies about them

Biographies 8Profiles 2

A crowded biographical shelf that mostly turns on the wartime collaboration question.

Chanel: Her Life, Her WorldChanel: Her Life, Her World
T1 Chanel: Her Life, Her World
Edmonde Charles-Roux · 1975
Open LibraryGoodreads

The foundational biography; every later book argues with it.

Coco Chanel: An Intimate LifeCoco Chanel: An Intimate Life
T1 Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life
Lisa Chaney · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Chanel's origins, her creative work and her private suffering, from new research.

Chanel: A Woman of Her OwnChanel: A Woman of Her Own
T2 Chanel: A Woman of Her Own
Axel Madsen · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard biography before Chaney and Vaughan.

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the LifeCoco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
T2 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Justine Picardie · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

House-access biography; good on the business, softer on the war.

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's SecreSleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War
T2 Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War
Hal Vaughan · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Declassified files on her Abwehr connection; contested by the house.

Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of HMademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
T2 Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Rhonda K. Garelick · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Reads the brand as politics; the most intellectually serious account.

The Allure of ChanelThe Allure of Chanel
T3 The Allure of Chanel
Paul Morand · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

As-told-to: Morand's record of her 1946 conversations, published posthumously.

The Secret of Chanel No. 5The Secret of Chanel No. 5
T3 The Secret of Chanel No. 5
Tilar J. Mazzeo · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

One product's history, including the Wertheimer deal that made the money.