#199 Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Those on whom legends are built are Are there legends, declared Coco Chanel not long before her death. when her face had already become a fixed mass to the world. and her myth apparently impenetrable. She was speaking to Claude Deley.

Delay was a young woman at the time. the daughter of a well known French psychiatrist, but is herself now an eminent psychoanalyst and an expert guide to the labyrinth of secret and lies that Chanel constructed to conceal the truth of her past. Not that there is ever a single truth in a life. Especially for a woman who built a career on refashioning women's ideas of themselves. Which may be why Chanel recounted so many different stories about herself.

As if in each version something new might emerge out of her history. I don't like the family. She told delay. You're born in it. Not of it.

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