Episode 5: Chanel no. 5 – A Modernist Icon [& Extras]

Listen to the episode HERE on Soundcloud or visit the podcast on iTunes, either through the Podcasts App or by clicking HERE. Happy listening!

Recommended for your perusal: Inside.Chanel.com

Sources:

  • Brown, Judith Christine. Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
  • Burstein, Jessica. Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012.
  • Calkin, Robert R., and J. Stephan Jellinek. Perfumery: Practice and Principles. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
  • Chaney, Lisa. Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life. Penguin, 2011.
  • Garelick, Rhonda K. Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.
  • Groom, N. The Perfume Handbook. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
  • Leiss, William, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally. Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products & Images of Well-Being. Psychology Press, 1990.
  • Mazzeo, Tilar J. The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World’s Most Famous Perfume. Harper Collins, 2011.
  • Rodaway, Paul. Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense and Place. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Tungate, Mark. Branded Beauty: How Marketing Changed the Way We Look. Kogan Page Publishers, 2011.
  • Vaughan, Hal. Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012.

Gus Content:

The name is Chanel… Gus Chanel.

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Original based on the commercial for Chanel no. 5 featuring Brad Pitt. To watch, click HERE.

Gus Cosplaying as Coco Chanel

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Original: Man Ray, Portrait of Coco Chanel, c. 1935.

Spot the Gus

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Original: Kollar for Harper’s Bazaar, Madame Gabrielle Chanel in her new apartment in the Ritz, Paris, photograph, 1937. Photograph was published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1937 as an advertisement for Chanel no. 5.

Gus Seduces M-Squared with his Signature Gussian Charm

Marylin Monroe
Original: Michael Ochs, Marilyn Monroe on March 24, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, photograph, 1955.

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