3 Weeks with Coco Chanel

Brisbane Scene | Ian | December 2, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Queens Plaza is proud to present “Three Weeks with Coco Chanel“, an exclusive photographic exhibition by Douglas Kirkland. This is the first time these images have been seen in Queensland, in what promises to be an intimate insight into notoriously stylish fashion icon.

Here is a distinctly unique look at the woman who transformed twentieth century fashion. No stranger to photographing some of the world’s most beloved icons, including Man Ray, Marilyn Monroe, and Judy Garland, among countless others, Douglas Kirkland fixed his lens on Chanel for twenty-one days in 1962.

Sent to Paris on assignment for Look magazine, Kirkland ended up living with Chanel for three weeks, catching both the public and the intimate moments of Chanel’s daily life. This collection of photographs is as staggeringly beautiful as it is an impassioned portraiture, shedding new light on one of the great stories of the modern age.

View the exhibition at QueensPlaza from November 10 – December 13.

WHAT: 3 Weeks with Coco Chanel

WHERE: QueensPlaza (Level 1, outside Saba & David Lawrence) (map)

WHEN: Nov 10 – Dec 13

COST: Free