In Culture Chanel: The Woman Who Reads, author Jean-Louis Froment explores how literature and poetry shaped Gabrielle Chanel’s imagination and contributed to her fashion legacy. The book links texts, photos, paintings, drawings, jewellery, perfume, and clothing designs, revealing an aesthetic language influenced by notable writers such as Plato, Saint Augustine, Shakespeare, and Jean Cocteau, who were instrumental in Chanel’s life and work.