31, Rue Cambon
Janet Flanner’s 1931 Profile of Coco Chanel. “The key to her peculiar genius and its sartorial consequences may lie in the fact that Chanel, most Parisian and expensive couturier of her epoch, was born poor and in the country.”
March 14, 1931
“Tell me, dear lady, have you any children, by any—er—chance?”
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