Pictures from the 2 biopics about Coco Chanel are starting to leak on the web , the one with Audrey Tautou by Anne Fontaine and then the one with Anna Mouglalis by Jan Kounen...should be interesting as these 2 directors are so different!
these 2 girls are both fantastic for the part , they look like her , they are both strong very clever women
in the same way Ines de la Fressange also was very much like the Chanel woman .
a beautiful name Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel for a life story not so different from Edith Piaf starting in extreme poverty and loneliness her mother died at 33 and her father left Gabrielle and her 2 sisters at an orphanage as he was planning to start a new life in the USA,she also tried her hand at singing in cabarets that is how she got her surname Coco but luckily she was also trained to become a couturiere ...
both had considerable drive and talent and awful bad luck in love ,but those same men helped them to rise to the top...
both were left to mourn for the rest of their lives for their lost loves as Edith lost Marcel in a plane crash ...Chanel lost boy Capel in a car crash...
she once said in a very Duras way:
" la mode c est quelque chose au bord du suicide"
fashion is something on the edge of suicide
I read her biography a long time ago and they said that her famous double C logo was most likely inspired by the ones you find on the old lamposts in London engraved with double C gold letters when she visited the town with Boy...
final word to Chanel:
"Le luxe ce n est pas le contraire de la pauvrete mais celui de la vulgarite"
luxe is not poverty s contrary s it s vulgarity s
never been so true isn it?
