About the legendary Coco Chanel and her relationship with men written a lot. But she herself even more accurately and frankly her novels and men - her statements became aphorisms.
It's amazing that a woman who made her dizzying career with the help of men was not a cynical careerist at all, but a very vulnerable person who sincerely loved each man literally to the end. She said goodbye to them, not when their ways-roads diverged, but only when they really died.
Koko, an unhappy child who grew up in an orphanage, has brought up the gift of always being grateful to those people who had once toasted her. And she remembered and supported her lovers, men who chose women from the whole world of women from all over the world, even if they were going to other women. They made it somehow surprisingly similar: leaving her, they asked her to adopt an unusual friend of approval for marriage, while they all wanted their future wives to like Chanel. And she, as a rule, agreed with this state of affairs and approved of her rivals. Huge love Gabrielle
Her immense love for a lifetime happened when she, having already lost her status as a mistress, decided on an independent life. She lived in an outbuilding wing of a rich military man and made plans to become a milliner. The then-seldom-officer did not support her, and this was the end of their relationship. Koko moved to Paris and met there with a friend of her former friend - Englishman ArthurCapel.
It was love at first sight and to the grave. Arthur was a handsome man, with excellent English manners, prominent in all relations, a very decent young man, also heir of the wealthy coal producers. Chanel is an elegant brunette for about 30 years, with a very unusual appearance, which will later be recognized as a new standard for the style of ikrasota. They quickly got closer, together they rented an apartment.
Chanel will, until the end of his life, carry everywhere the furnishings from this world of happiness. She seemed to have got huge wings - next to her was a handsome man who loved her and supported her without hesitation. Arthur tried to help his beloved by all means available to him. He understood well that Gabriel, as Chanel really was, most of all wanted to realize himself in the fashion world. He financed the first Chanel stores in the most fashionable places in France, introduced her to the highest circles of society, introduced the family of the Rothschilds, who would be her most loyal purchasers and would recommend her to all her acquaintances. For the sake of his beloved, he will stop intercourse with many women, although the glory of the playboy was behind him. It was very important for him that Gabrielle felt happy. So it happened, the success of Chanel. She became incredibly popular and, finally, an independent, rich, very successful woman. Paris was at her feet.
Unsuitable party
But at the same time, she realized that there was a threat over Arthur and her happiness. And this threat is its success. She knew that Arthur was ready to give her a lot and support her in everything, but as soon as real success came to her, he would leave, because he could not marry her.
Chanel wanted this most, but she knew that he would not make an offer to her. Arthur also had his own dream. He himself very much wanted to reach the heights in society, he was clever, educated.
Everything was on his side, except for one thing: it was the Jewish blood. For France, it was necessary to be really Rothschild to be recognized. And he was just "just" rich. To break through to the very top to become an equal medium of equals, it was absolutely necessary to marry an aristocrat. And Chanel was in this case an inappropriate party ...
For a while, it still held, but then their happy life went downhill. First, Arthur again got a couple of mistresses. Kokoterpela - she was ready to forgive him a lot. He, too, did not abandon her, realizing that she was not yet ready to part.
But here also the lucky case has turned up - a profitable party, which, at last, opened to Arthur all the doors of the higher society of Europe. He decided to ask the council of his beloved Gabriel. She agreed, approved of his choice and even of the wedding skshadalina matchless wedding dress for the bride.
Little black mourning dress
The fate of their love was solved: Arthur got what he wanted, Koko only half - success and wealth and a broken heart in addition. She decided to forget herself in the work, it almost succeeded, but a year later her deafness: in a car accident her Artur died . For the first time in her life, Chanel showed herself in a real depression. Was 1919, she was 36 years old. But she remained the self - someone who overcame any difficulties, found a way out of any verdict. No matter how hard it was for her, she decided to plunge into work again.
The work pulled her out of the abyss of despair, and the mourning dress she sewed for herself in memory of her lover turned into a famous "little black dress" that brought her incredible glory and became a mandatory dress in the wardrobe of all the women of the world.
Further, her novels were already developing: she was looking for Arthur's replacement, she was afraid to live alone. Lovers idolized her, they were grateful to her and love and paid sincerity. But no novel has become for Koko the same fateful in life and career, as an acquaintance with Arthur.