chanel- all not as it might appear

Chanel is synonymous haute couture and timeless wearable clothes ,the essence of french chic.among fragrances Chanel no 5 is the most celebrated .raised in the harshness of a convent in the cevennes she learned discipline, arrogance and focus that would make her the most long lasting name in french fashion. a singer,seamstress designer, perfumer, she was friend of everyone from jean Cocteau to Winston Churchill. a collaborator during the war, with a comeback to favour at the age of 70 ,her life was testament to focus drive . her career an ode to, and a substitute for a lost love . boy capel was an English aristo connected to Newcastle in the north of England. lovers for 8 years he asked her to marry him ,set her up in her business, made her independent .she hesitated to say yes, he married another aristo ,then died soon after in a car crash on the way back to Chanel in roquebrunne.finding hecouldnt live without her. his wife married again with 6 months. Chanel described herself as his widow for the rest of her life .the pain of his loss prevented her from marrying the duke of Westminster , a vain attempt to lay the ghost of capel ,lucid till the last moments of her life she insisted that she had ended up lonely with nothing.a nothing that amounted 4 billion legacy ,such was extent of her need to to shut out the lingering anguish of lost love