*From September 2023 to February 2024, the V&A Museum will host the first UK exhibition dedicated to Coco Chanel. 

Great Lives in Graphics: Coco Chanel is a graphic retelling of Chanel’s story that gives children a visual snapshot of her life and career while educating them on everything from the history of early twentieth-century fashion and society to life in wartime France. 

You may already know that Coco Chanel was a visionary who transformed the fashion world, but did you know she was also accused of being a secret agent for the Nazis during World War II? Or that she was superstitious and would read tarot cards to predict her future? 

Key attractions in the book: 

• 250+ fascinating facts about fashion icon Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel
• An accessible format for young readers
• Fact-packed infographics capture the critical information
• Built-in colour-coded biography

The Great Lives in Graphics series reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour, presenting 250+ biographical facts in a new and exciting way. It takes the important dates and achievements of each person’s life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that genuinely engages children and young adults. The result is a colourful, fascinating and often surprising representation of that person’s life, work and legacy. Using timelines, maps, repeated motifs and many more beautiful and informative illustrations, readers learn not just about the book’s main subject but also about the cultural background of the time in which they lived. AGES: 8 to 12