Lisa Chaney - Coco Chanel - An Intimate Life

Churchill Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Dalí correspondence, courtesy Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain.

Municipal Archives, Biarritz, France (Mairie de Biarritz, Service des Archives).

Municipal Archives, Garches, France (Mairie de Garches, Service des Archives — Documentation).

National Archives, Kew. Foreign Office records, FO 944/35 and FO 371/70892.

National Archives, Kew. War Office Records, WO339/55790, Arthur Capel file.

National Archives, Paris (Fonds Chanoine Mugnier).

Pavlovich, Dmitri, diaries, translated by William Lee, courtesy of Prince Chavchavadze.

Ponsonby, Dorothy, diaries, courtesy the Honorable Laura Ponsonby.

1. View from Ponteils; author’s photo.

2. The Chanel inn, Ponteils; author’s photo.

3. Aubazine; author’s photo.

4. Gabrielle and Adrienne Chanel c. 1904. Courtesy

LIFE

©. All rights reserved.

5. Etienne Balsan c. 1903. Courtesy of Antoine Balsan and Philippe Gontier.

6. Gabrielle Chanel c. 1910. Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

7. Emilienne d’Alençon, 1875. Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

8. Royallieu. All rights reserved.

9. Arthur Capel c. 1910. Courtesy of Christopher Osborn.

10. Arthur Capel and Gabrielle Chanel on horseback c. 1910. Courtesy

LIFE ©

All rights reserved.

11. Arthur Capel on horseback c. 1910. Courtesy of Christopher Osborn.

12. Gabrielle in her own hat designs;

Comoedia Illustré

, 1910. All rights reserved.

13. Gabrielle Dorziat in “Marie-Louise” hats;

Comoedia Illustré

, 1910. All rights reserved.

14. Gabrielle Dorziat in a Chanel hat, 1912. All rights reserved.

15. Gabrielle Dorziat in a Chanel hat;

Journal des Modes

, 1912. All rights reserved.

16. Adrienne and Gabrielle Chanel in front of her Deauville shop. Courtesy

LIFE

©. All rights reserved.

17.

Tangoville sur mer

, caricature of Coco Chanel and Arthur Capel by Sem; Bibliothèque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris/Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Art Library.

18. Gabrielle and friends outside Deauville shop c. 1914. Courtesy Ville de Deauville ©. All rights reserved.

19. Coco Chanel playing golf c. 1913; Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

20. Coco Chanel and Arthur Capel on the beach at St-Jean-de-Luz, 1915; Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

21. Pablo and Olga Picasso, 1917; Popperfoto/Getty Images.

22. Diana Capel by John Sargent; Private Collection.

23. The Capel Polo Trophy. Courtesy Polo de Paris; photo Adelia Sabatini.

24. Sergei Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky; © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

25. Igor Stravinsky, José Maria Sert, Gabrielle Chanel and Misia Sert, 1920; Igor Stravinsky Collection; © Paul Sacher Foundation, Zurich.

26. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. From

Chanel: A Woman of Her Own

, Axel Madsen. All rights reserved.

27. Gabrielle and her dog at the Faubourg St-Honoré; Henri de Beaumont; All rights reserved.

28. Gabrielle Chanel and Dmitri Pavlovich c. 1921; All rights reserved.

29. Chanel N

°

5 by Sem, Musee Carnavalet/Roger Viollet/Getty Images.

30. Dancers from

Le Train bleu

, 1924; © Hulton Deutsch Collection, CORBIS.

31. Dancers from

Le Train bleu

, 1924; © Hulton Deutsch Collection, CORBIS.

32. Lubov Tchernicheva in

Apollon musagète

Courtesy

Dancing Times

Archive

.

33. Pierre Reverdy; Roger Viollet/Topfoto.

34. Paul Morand c. 1910; Martinie Roger Viollet/Getty Images.

35. Duke of Westminster;

Sunday Telegraph

, all rights reserved.

36. Eaton Hall; Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

37. Randolph and Winston Churchill with Coco Chanel; Hulton Archive/ Getty Images.

38. Marion Morehouse in dress by Chanel c. 1926; © Condé Nast Archive/ CORBIS.

39. Coco Chanel at Biarritz, 1928; FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

40. Coco Chanel, Misia and José Maria Sert, etc., on the Venice Lido; © Mary Evans/Rue des Archives/Talendier.

41. Gabrielle Chanel skiing with Etienne de Beaumont,

etc.

Henri de Beaumont. All rights reserved.

42. Coco Chanel in jersey suit c. 1931; Getty Images.

43. Coco Chanel in white satin pajamas; Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images.

44. Coco Chanel with Lady Pamela Smith and models, 1932; © Bettmann/ CORBIS.

45. Coco Chanel with Cecil Beaton c. 1937; John Phillips/Time & Life Pictures

Getty Images.blockquote>

46. Coco Chanel and Fulco di Verdura, 1937; Lipnitzki Roger Viollet/Getty Images.

47. Gabrielle with Salvador Dalí c. 1938. Image Rights of Salvador Dalí reserved. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2011.

48. Gabrielle with Apelles Fenosa; Hoyningen Huene c. 1939. © R. J. Horst. Photo: courtesy Staley/Wise Gallery NYC.

49. Baroness M. van Zuylen and Serge Lifar; © Mary Evans/Rue des Archives/ Tallandier.

50. Baron Hans von Dincklage, passport photograph, 1950.

51. Model wearing Chanel suit; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

52. Model in tiered strapless gown with roses; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

53. Coco Chanel on mirrored staircase at her couture house, 1954; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

54. Chanel models at 31 rue Cambon, 1958; Roger Viollet/Topfoto.

55. Coco Chanel pinning dress on model 1959; Archive Photos/Getty Images.

56. Animal sculptures in Chanel’s rue Cambon salon; © Simon Upton, The Interior Archive.

57. Dining room in Chanel’s rue Cambon apartment; © Massimo Listri/ CORBIS.

58. Fashion designer Coco Chanel c. 1965; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

59. Models attending mass for Coco Chanel; © Bettmann/CORBIS.

Abdy, Lady

Abernon, Helen d’

Abetz, Otto

Abetz, Suzanne

Action Française

actresses

Aimée, Anouk

Alain-Fournier

À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)

Albania

Alcazar

aldehydes

Alençon, Emilienne d’

Alexander, King of Yugoslavia

alienation

Allenby, Edmund

Allied Force Headquarters

Allied War Coal Commission

Allure of Chanel, The (Morand)

Amazons

American Emergency Rescue Committee

Amiot, Félix

Angèle (seamstress)

Antigone (Sophocles)

anti-Semitism

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apollon musagète (ballet)

Après-midi d’un faune, L’ (ballet)

Aquascutum

Aragon, Louis

A. Rallet & Co.

Arbuthnot-Leslie, Mrs. William

Arcangues, Comtesse Mimi D’

archery

architecture

Argentina

Arletty

Arnaud, Marie-Hélène

Arrivabene, Madina

Arrivabene, Niki

Astruc, Gabriel

atelier system

Aubazine convent

Aubert, Mme.

Auden, W. H.

Auric, Georges

Auschwitz

Austria

Avedon, Richard

Bacall, Lauren

Bader, Théophile

Bailey, David

Baker, Josephine

Bakst, Léon

Balanchine, George

Bal du Comte d’Orgel, Le

Balenciaga, Cristóbal

Ballard, Bettina

Ballets Russes

Balmain, Pierre

Balsan, Charles

Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt

Balsan, Etienne

and Coco’s relationship with Capel

as horseman

in proposals to Coco

as womanizer

Balsan, Jacques

Balsan, Robert

Balzac, Honoré de

Banque de France

Barney, Natalie

Barrie, J. M.

Barrow, George de Symons