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Russian friends of Chanel. Love, passion and jealousy that changed fashion and art of the 20th century

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Russian friends of Chanel. Love, passion and jealousy that changed fashion and art of the 20th century
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How did a Parisian modiste become a Grand Mademoiselle? Few people know that she owes her success not only to her own talent and innovation, and not even to her rich and noble lovers. In the elite circle of Paris Chanel got first of all thanks to the eminent Russian emigrants, with whom she was introduced by her close friend Misya Sert. The novel "Russian Friends of Chanel" is based on documentary information, in particular on the records of Coco Chanel's friend Paul Moran, who during her lifetime never received permission to publish them. In it the author - writer and art historian Elena Celestin - in colors conveys the details of acquaintance, friendship and cooperation of Chanel with Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Leonid Myasin, Sergei Lifar, Grand Duke Dmitry Romanov and Princess Maria Pavlovna, Picasso and his Russian wife Olga Khokhlova. The novel immerses the reader in the atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s, a period of the formation of new art, inspired creativity, but at the same time, the restlessness, jealousy and lack of money - when "at the court of Diaghilev" did not stop working hard and boiling passions, including the participation of Gabrielle Chanel. Lively dialogues and rare archival photos of the actors very accurately illustrate the characters, their images, the life of Russian intellectuals in exile, telling for the first time the story of Coco Chanel's appearance in the brilliant circle of geniuses and legends.
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