The Collection

I just finished reading The Collection, a novel by Gioia Diliberto. Any lover of fashion history, especially regarding the great fashion houses of Paris in the early 1900's, would love this book! Here is a description from the Amazon site:

Isabelle Varlet, charming and naïve, comes from a long line of seamstresses in a small town in France. A series of unfortunate events and her prodigious sartorial talent carry her to Paris, which in the wake of World War I is electric with new life. When Isabelle takes a job in the atelier of Coco Chanel, the rising star of haute couture, she finds herself in the heart of a glamorous and ruthless world filled with arrogant designers, handsome men, beautiful women, and fashion thieves who prowl Paris hoping to steal designs before they hit the runway.