5. The famous little black dress!
More than sixty little black dresses, some
famous, feature in a new exhibition at the
Fashion & Textile Museum.
6. Chanel №5
When journalist asked
Marilyn Monroe, what she put on
at night, she said only several
drops of Chanel №5!
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8. The pumps!
Coco Chanel invented daily
two-coloured (a light base and a black
toecap) pumps. She decrease heels
and made more closed shoes. The
advantage of two-coloured pumps
are visually making foot more shoter.
9. Film depictions
The American
television movie
Coco Chanel debuted on 13
September 2008 on
Lifetime Television, starring
Shirley MacLaine as a 70year-old Chanel. Directed
by Christian Duguay, the
film also starred
Barbora Bobulova as the
young Chanel.
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There is also a film starring
Audrey Tautou as the young
Coco, titled Coco avant
Chanel (
Coco Before Chanel), which
was released on 22 April
2009. Filming on the project
began 15 September 2008.
Audrey Tautou is the new
spokeswoman of Chanel
S.A.
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12. Literary depictions
Coco & Igor is a novel,
written by Chris Greenhalgh
, which depicts the affair
between Chanel and Igor
Stravinsky and the creative
achievements that this affair
inspired. The novel was first
published in 2003.
13.
Igor Fyodorovich
Stravinsky was a Russian
composer, pianist, and
conductor.
He was a quintessentially
cosmopolitan Russian who
was named by Time
magazine as one of the 100
most influential people of
the century.
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16. «I don't know why women want any of the things
men have when one the things that women have is
men.» (с)