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Coco before Chanel

I just saw a couple of days ago “Coco before Chanel” and I must say I loved it. It was fascinating and Audrey Tatou’s act is impeccable.

Fun facts:

—>From 1934 to 1971 Coco Chanel made the Hotel Ritz, Paris, France her home. A suite, in honor of her memory, has been named after her: the Coco Chanel Suite.

—>Costume continuity during the scene where “Boy” allows Coco to drive the motorcar. When they eventually stop the car, Coco is wearing a white scarf which she was not wearing when she first got into the car.

—>When looking out on the English Chanel on the beach in Deauville, Coco is wearing a heavy overcoat. Moments later when “Boy” joins her, the overcoat is gone.

—>When playing polo, Etienne wields the mallet with his left hand, which is currently forbidden by the rules but was not at the time the scene occurs.

Quotes: “A woman who cuts her hair, is about to change her life.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

 ”As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”

“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”

“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” 

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”  

“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”  

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”  

“Great loves too must be endured.”  

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”  

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”  

“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.” 
 
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” 
 
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”