At the age of fifteen, Sofia Coppola began a summer internship at the Chanel atelier in Paris, moving from her family home in Northern California. This unforgettable experience began a relationship with the Maison that has consolidated over the decades and given rise to numerous collaborations. The latest is this luxurious and compelling volume, in which Coppola uses her signature style of collage and assemblage to present a personalized visual history of Chanel's Haute Couture creations. The history of the Maison Haute Couture unfolds in this 450-page tome through unpublished sketches, photographs of Chanel customers wearing the creations, photos of fashion shows and archive documents. Spanning the different eras of Chanel's leading designers – Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Virginie Viard – their teams, their famous clientele and the models of each period, as seen by renowned photographers, this book is a definitive guide to the extraordinary creations that have influenced generations of designers and a piece of fashion history in its own right.