#64 Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets

She smiled and kept hold of my hand. I'm very pleased as you see. There was no big audience, but the people who did come really understand work done well. No one pays me compliments anymore simply to please me. It's my work that I'm congratulated on. And to me

That's the only thing that counts. So that's a quote from Coco Chanel when she was seventy one years old. And I found it in the book that I'm gonna talk to you about today, which is Coco Chanel, Her Life and Her Secrets. Um so let's start at the very beginning. Where the author is talking about how he came to know Coco Chanel.

And he says I first met Coco Chanel in nineteen fifty eight. She was seventy five years old. A prodigy beautified. And triumphant. She had imposed her style on the whole world.

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