Rhonda K. Garelick writes on fashion, performance, art, and cultural politics. Her books include: RISING STAR; ELECTRIC SALOME: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism; and, as co-editor, FABULOUS HARLEQUIN: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, New York Newsday, International Herald Tribune, and Sydney Morning Herald, as well as in numerous journals and museum catalogs in the United States and Europe. She is a Guggenheim fellow and has also received awards from the Getty Research Institute, the Dedalus Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Whiting Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Garelick received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and French from Yale University.

Books by Rhonda K. Garelick

Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

by Rhonda K. Garelick - Art, Biography, Entertainment, Nonfiction

Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the 20th century --- throwing into dramatic relief an era of war, fashion, ardent nationalism and earth-shaking change --- here treated, for the first time, with wide-ranging and incisive historical scrutiny.