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.”
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His brain is instinctive, not logical, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. His name, in Germany, has been substituted for that of God.
Profile of Sidney Franklin. Franklin who is now forty-five estimates that he has killed 2,000 bulls so far. Last winter in Mexico, he killed 13. He's …
Janet Flanner’s 1957 Profile of the painter and sculptor.
Part 1 of John Bainbridge’s portrait of the state and its millionaires, oil tycoons, and fixation on size.
Janet Flanner remembers her years with Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, and other literary greats.