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Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life

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by Lisa Chaney


  Orlandi, Suzanne

  Otero, Caroline

  pajamas

  Palasse, André

  Paquin, Jeanne

  Parade (Diaghilev ballet)

  Paramount

  Parfums Chanel, Les

  Paris

  bohemian life in

  demimonde of

  fashion in

  homosexuality in

  magnificence promoted in

  under Nazi occupation

  rebuilding of

  in World War I,

  in World War II,

  Paris commune of

  Parisian Jeu de Paume

  Paris Match

  Paris Polo Club

  Paris spring collection (1939)

  Parker, Suzy

  Parquet, Paul

  Patou, Jean

  Paul Alexandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia

  Pausa, La

  pearls

  Péguy, Charles

  Penn, Irving

  Pereire, Jacob Emile

  Pétain, Philippe

  physical culture

  Picabia, Francis

  Picasso, Olga

  Picasso, Pablo

  Antigone’s set by

  Gabrielle’s affair with

  Parade’s set created by

  Pulcinella’s set created by

  Pillet-Will, Comte

  pink

  Pinto, Lieutenant

  Poincaré, Raymond

  Poiret, Paul

  Poland

  Polge, Jacques

  Pompidou, Claude

  Ponsonby, Loelia (Duchess of Westminster)

  Ponteils, France, (ancestral hamlet of the Chanels)

  Popular Front

  Portarlington, Lady

  Porter, Cole

  Poulenc, Francis

  Pound, Ezra

  Prokofiev, Sergei

  Propaganda-Abteilung

  prostitution

  Proust, Marcel

  Pulcinella (Diaghilev ballet)

  Quant, Mary

  Rabanne, Paco

  Rabaté, Lucienne

  rabbit fur

  Rachmaninov, Sergei

  Radiguet, Raymond

  Radziwill, Countess

  Radziwill, Princess

  railways

  Rallet N. 1,

  Rasputin, Grigori

  Ravel, Maurice

  rayon

  Reay Forest

  Reves, Emery

  Reflections of Victory (Capel)

  Règle du Jeau, La (film)

  Rehbinder, Countess

  Renoir, Auguste

  Renoir, Jean

  Requena, Comtesse de

  Resistance

  Reverdy, Henriette

  Reverdy, Pierre death of

  revue blanche, La

  Reynaud, Paul

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Ribblesdale, Lord

  Ricci, Nina

  Ripon, Gladys, Lady

  Ristelhueber, Boulos

  Rite of Spring, The (ballet)

  changes to

  premier of

  Ritz

  roads

  Rochas, Marcel

  Rodier, Jean

  Roger, Lucienne

  Rohan-Montbazon, Duchesse de

  Romania

  Rommel, Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rosslyn, Lady

  Rothschild, Diane “Kitty” de

  Rothschild, Guy de

  Rothschild, Lili de

  Rothschild, Marie-Hélène

  Rothschild, Nadine

  Rothschild, Robert

  Rothschild family

  Rouault, Georges

  Rouchefoucauld family

  Rousseau, Douanier

  Rowley, Violet

  Royallieu (château)

  Rubinstein, Arthur

  Rubinstein, Helena

  Rubinstein, Ida

  Rules of the Game, The (film)

  Russia Revolution

  sable

  Sachs, Maurice

  Sagan, Françoise

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

  Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France

  Saint Laurent, Yves

  Saint-Sauveur, Pauline de

  Saks

  Salverte, Jeanne de

  Samaritaine, La

  Sanary, France

  Santos-Dumont, ALberto

  Sargent, John Singer

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Satie, Erik

  satin

  Schellenberg, Walter

  Schiaparelli, Elsa

  in collaboration with Dalí

  Schiaparelli, Gogo

  Schillinger, Hans

  Schneider, Romy

  Schoenebeck, Baron von

  Schoenebeck, Maximiliana von (Catsy), married von Dincklage

  Schoenebeck, Sybille (Bedford)

  Scott, Ridley

  sea bathing

  Second Empire, France

  Secret of the Medici

  Segonzac, André de

  Segonzac, Comte Jean de

  Sem (Georges Goursat)

  Sert, José Maria

  Sert, Misia Edwards

  as affected by Depression

  as annoyed with Gabrielle’s philanthropy

  and creation of Chanel № 5,

  decorating by

  deserted by Sert

  Diaghilev’s friendship with

  drugs used by

  Gabrielle influenced by

  Gabrielle placed in apartment by

  and Gabrielle’s affair with Stravinsky

  memoirs of

  salon acquired by

  at Sorel’s party

  sewing machines

  sexual inclinations

  Seyrig, Delphine

  Shervashidze, Prince

  shoulder pads

  silk

  Simpson, Wallis

  Singer, Winnaretta

  Six, Les

  Sjorza, Countess

  skirts

  short

  smart trousers

  Smith, Pamela, Lady

  Snow, Carmel

  social hierarchies

  Sokolova, Lydia (Hilda Munnigs)

  Somme, Battle of

  Sorel, Cécile

  Soviet Union

  Spain

  Spears, Edward

  Speer, Albert

  Spiritualism

  Stern, Herman

  stock market crash (1929)

  Stöhrer, Ute von

  Stonyhurst College

  Stravinsky, Catherine

  Stravinsky, Igor

  death of

  Gabrielle’s affair with

  Streitz, Robert

  strikes in France

  Stroheim, Erich von

  Stülpnagel, Carl-Heinrich von

  style, fashion vs.

  Sullivan, Anne

  suntans

  surrealism

  Swanson, Gloria

  sweaters

  Sweetinburgh, Thelma

  swimsuits

  Switzerland

  Synarchist Empire Movement

  Syndicat de la Couture

  syphilis

  Tagore, Rabindranath

  Talmadge, Norma

  Tatou, Audrey

  Taylor, Elizabeth

  Tehran Conference (1943)

  Témoin, Le

  Ten Commandments, The (film)

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald)

  10th Light Horse Regiment

  Théâtre des Arts

  Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

  Theosophists

  Time

  Times, The (London)

  Tonight or Never (film)

  Toulemon, Elise (Caryathis)

  Toulmin, Evelyn

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri

  Train, Susan

  Train Bleu

  Train Bleu, Le (ballet)

  Traviata, La (opera)

  tweed

  Tzara, Tristan

&
nbsp; United States

  in World War I,

  Uriage, France

  Uzanne, Octave

  Vadim, Roger

  Valentino

  Valéry, Paul

  Vallat, Xavier

  Vanderbilt, Consuelo

  Varennes, France

  Vaufreland, Louis de

  Vendôme

  Venice, Italy

  Verdun, Battle of

  Verlaine, Paul

  Versailles Conference (1919)

  Vichy, France

  Victoria, Grand Duchess

  Victory Ball, Paris

  Viezaux, Etienne de (St. Stephen)

  Viggiano, Yvonne

  Villa Larralde

  Vilmorin, Louise de

  Vionnet, Madeleine

  Visconti, Luchino

  Vivien, Renée

  Vogue

  Vreeland, Diana

  Vuillard, Édouard

  Wagner, Richard

  waistlines

  Wales, David Prince of, see Edward VIII, King of England

  Warkowska, Madame

  Waugh, Evelyn

  Weber-Rosenkranz, Baroness

  Wertheimer, Alain

  Wertheimer, Gérard

  Wertheimer, Jacques

  Wertheimer, Paul

  Wertheimer, Pierre

  West, Mae

  West, Shelagh

  Westminster, Duke of, see Bend’Or

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser

  Williams, Harrison

  Williams, Mona

  women

  bodies of

  horse riding by

  liberation of

  in men’s clothes

  practical outfits worn by

  Women’s Wear Daily

  Woolf, Virginia

  World War I,

  casualties of

  French mutinies in

  technology in

  World War II,

  Gabrielle’s escape from Paris in

  Phony War in

  Worth, Charles Frederick

  Wyndham, Diana

  Capel’ affair with

  Gabrielle disliked by

  Wyndham, Percy

  youth

  Yturbe, Miguel de

  Zola, Emile

  Zuylen, Egmont van

  Zuylen, Maggie van

  Zweig, Arnold

  1. The vast chestnut forests seen from Ponteils, the mountainous Cevennes hamlet where Gabrielle’s paternal ancestors lived.

  2. Gabrielle’s great-grandfather’s inn, “the Chanel.” Today, the shutters firmly shut, its stony bulk has an air of neglect.

  3. The Aubazine convent-orphanage where Gabrielle lived for many years.

  4. The earliest known photograph of Gabrielle, with Adrienne at Vichy c. 1904.

  5. Etienne Balsan on military service, c. 1903, around the time Gabrielle met him.

  6. Gabrielle, c. 1909. Tastes were changing; her angular “modern” beauty had become desirable.

  7. The famed courtesan, Emilienne d’Alençon, Etienne Balsan’s lover when Gabrielle appeared on the scene.

  8. Royallieu, where Gabrielle lived with Etienne as his mistress.

  9. Arthur “Boy” Capel, c. 1910, who was to transform Gabrielle’s life.

  10. Arthur Capel and Gabrielle. Jodhpurs and sitting astride were unconventional for a horsewoman in 1910.

  11. Arthur Capel was a noted horseman and excelled at polo.

  12. Gabrielle in her own hats, seen in Comoedia Illustré, 1910.

  13. The actress Gabrielle Dorziat 1910, in “Marie-Louise” hats, almost indistinguishable from Gabrielle’s own designs.

  14. Gabrielle Dorziat in a Chanel hat for the play Bel Ami, 1912.

  15. Gabrielle Dorziat in another Chanel hat, 1912.

  16. Outside Gabrielle’s boutique with Adrienne (left) in Deauville, 1913. Note the awning reading “Gabrielle Chanel.”

  17. By 1913 Gabrielle was becoming known, and Sem caricatured her with her immensely eligible lover Arthur Capel.

  18. Gabrielle at her Deauville shop doorway. Previously unrecognized, on her right is Capel; furthest right is Balsan, still a friend. (There are only a handful of known photos of Gabrielle and Capel together.)

  19. Gabrielle was in the minority of women who took to playing sports. At Deauville, c. 1913.

  20. Gabrielle, Capel and Constant

  Say at St-Jean-de-Luz in a moment of calm during the First World War.

  21. The Picassos in front of Pablo’s Ballets Russes poster, 1917. Olga’s outfit, including her handbag, are Chanel.

  22. John Singer Sargent’s drawing of Diana Wyndham, the young Englishwoman who would usurp Gabrielle.

  23. Deauville Polo Club’s Arthur Capel trophy, given by his sister, Berthe, possibly in conjunction with Gabrielle.

  24. Sergei Diaghilev (left) and Igor Stravinsky, c. 1920, with whom Gabrielle became intimately associated.

  25. Clockwise from top left: Stravinsky, José Maria Sert, Gabrielle and the inimitable Misia Sert.

  26. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.

  27. Gabrielle in the garden of her palatial new address, 29 Faubourg St-Honoré, early 1920s.

  28. Dmitri Pavlovich. with Gabrielle, 1920.

  29. The earliest depiction of Chanel № 5, by Sem, c. 1921–2.

  30. Gabrielle’s costumes for Le Train bleu, 1922, were crucial to its up-to-the-minute air. Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Jean Cocteau, Leon Woizikovsky, Bronislava Nijinska.

  31. Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Bronislava Nijinska and Leon Woizikovsky in Le Train bleu.

  32. Lubov Tchernicheva as Calliope in Apollon musagète, 1929, her tricot tunic bound with neckties from Charvet, a classically simple Chanel touch.

  33. The poet Pierre Reverdy, whom Gabrielle lost to his religion.

  34. Paul Morand, man of letters, who took Gabrielle’s memoir.

  35. Bend’Or, Second Duke of Westminster.

  36. The Duke of Westminster’s Cheshire home, Eaton Hall.

  37. Gabrielle with Winston and Randolph Churchill, boar-hunting on Bend’Or’s French estate, 1928.

  38. Marion Morehouse in a signature “little black dress” by Gabrielle, 1926.

  39. At Biarritz, 1928, in her trademark jersey, two-tone shoes and imitation jewelery.

  40. Gabrielle on the Venice Lido, c. 1930, with Misia Sert and Madame Berthelot. José Maria Sert is behind.

  41. Skiing with society; Gabrielle (center). Behind are Etienne and Edith de Beaumont.

  42. Gabrielle in jersey suit, c. 1931; note the return of the waist.

  43. In New York, 1931, on Gabrielle’s triumphant first trip to the United States.

  44. Gabrielle with English society models, 1932; Lady Pamela Smith stands.

  45. With and photographed by Cecil Beaton, c. 1937.

  46. Gabrielle, her jewelery designer Fulco di Verdura and his work, 1937.

  47. With Salvador Dalí, c. 1938.

  48. Apelles Fenosa sculpts Gabrielle, c. 1939.

  49. Gabrielle’s close friend Maggie van Zuylen and the dancer Serge Lifar.

  50. Baron von Dincklage at fifty-four, Gabrielle’s lover during and after the war.

  51. Gabrielle’s 1954 suit, in the U.S. Vogue photo shoot, was instrumental in resuscitating her name.

  52. Suzy Parker, in one of the three outfits shot for U.S. Vogue in 1954.

  53. On the famed staircase at 31 rue Cambon, before Gabrielle’s 1954 comeback show.

  54. Some of the models who added luster to Maison Chanel: Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Gisèle Francome, Paule Rizzo and Mimi d’Arcangues in 1958.

  55. Gabrielle, once again famous, in a characteristic pose, 1959.

  56. Gabrielle’s sculptures seen in the salon at rue Cambon: in the fireplace a Jacques Lipchitz; on the mantel, classical torso and masks.

  57. At rue Cambon, the bust of Thomas Capel on mantel, Gabrielle’s astrological lions on the table and a Coromandel screen behind.

  58. An elderly Gabrielle in her
salon with her chandelier of personal symbols, c. 1965.

  59. Gabrielle’s funeral mass in the Madeleine church, January 13, 1971, her coffin draped in flowers. Her models, in Chanel, stand at the front.

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