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Coco Chanel

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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and a business woman. [1]

175 relations: Abwehr, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Aimée de Heeren, Alan Jay Lerner, Alessandro Nivola, Alexandre Dumas, fils, Ancestry.com, André Previn, Anna Mouglalis, Arrêt sur images, Aryan, Aubazine, Audrey Tautou, Émilienne d’Alençon, Étienne Balsan, Ballets Russes, Barbora Bobuľová, Benoît Poelvoorde, Berlin, Biarritz, Bolsheviks, Bourjois, Boutique, Boy Capel, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Broadway theatre, Cabaret, Café-chantant, Camellia, Chandler Burr, Chanel, Chanel 2.55, Chanel No. 5, Chanel Solitaire, Charvet Place Vendôme, Chatelaine (chain), Chris Greenhalgh, Christian Dior, Christian Dior SE, Christian Duguay (director), Cocaine, Coco (musical), Coco and Igor, Coco Before Chanel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Coco Chanel (film), Colette, Collaboration with the Axis Powers, Corrèze, Corset, ..., Courtesan, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Dallas Museum of Art, Danielle Darrieux, Deauville, Diana Vreeland, Dressmaker, Duff Cooper, Edward VIII, Elsa Schiaparelli, Emery Reves, Fashion design, Félix Amiot, Forbes, Ford Model T, France, Freiherr, French fashion, Fulco di Verdura, Gabrielle Dorziat, Galeries Lafayette, George Kaczender, German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Gloria Swanson, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Grosgrain, Hal Vaughan, Handbag, Harper's Bazaar, Hatmaking, Haute couture, Hôtel Ritz Paris, Headscarf, Henry Clarke (photographer), Homophobia, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, Igor Stravinsky, Ina Claire, Jacques Chazot, Jacques Fath, Jan Kounen, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Jersey (fabric), Jet (lignite), Jewellery, Josep Maria Sert, Karl Lagerfeld, Katharine Hepburn, La Dame aux Camélias, La Madeleine, Paris, La Pausa, Laundry, Lausanne, Le Meurice, Legitimacy (family law), Little black dress, Longchamp Racecourse, Luca Turin, Luchino Visconti, Mads Mikkelsen, Maine-et-Loire, Maltese cross, Mariano Fortuny (designer), Marie-France Pisier, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Marlene Dietrich, Mayfair, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Misia Sert, Mistress (lover), Monte Carlo, Morphine, Moulins, Allier, Neiman Marcus Fashion Award, Olivier Sitruk, Paris, Paul Iribe, Paul Morand, Pierre Laval, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Wertheimer, Poorhouse, Prussian Army, Reich Main Security Office, René de Chambrun, Robert Piguet, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Rutger Hauer, Samuel Goldwyn, Saumur, Schutzstaffel, Serge Klarsfeld, Sergei Diaghilev, Shirley MacLaine, Sicherheitsdienst, Slavs, Sparrow, Subsequent Nuremberg trials, Surrealism, Switzerland, Théophile Bader, The Allure of Chanel, The Greeks Had a Word for Them, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rite of Spring, The Rules of the Game, Time (magazine), Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, Timothy Dalton, Tonight or Never (1931 film), Tuberculosis, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vera Bate Lombardi, Vichy, Vogue (magazine), Walter Kutschmann, Walter Schellenberg, Winston Churchill, World War I, World War II. Expand index (125 more) »

Abwehr

The Abwehr was the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

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Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge

Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus; 13 August 1868 – 24 October 1927), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck, was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of King George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

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Aimée de Heeren

Aimée de Heeren, born Aimée Soto-Maior de Sá or Aimée de Sotomayor (3 August 1903 – 13 September 2006) was a Brazilian socialite.

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Alan Jay Lerner

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist.

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Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor and producer who has starred in feature films such as Face/Off, American Hustle, A Most Violent Year, and a brief appearance in Selma.

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Alexandre Dumas, fils

Alexandre Dumas, fils (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English-language versions.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Anna Mouglalis

Anna Mouglalis (born 26 April 1978) is a French actress.

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Arrêt sur images

Arrêt sur images ("Freeze-frame", also abbreviated as the acronym ASI) was initially a weekly French television program, created and presented by journalist Daniel Schneidermann and broadcast on La Cinquième from 1995 (renamed France 5 in January 2002) to 2007 and produced by Carrere group.

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Aryan

"Aryan" is a term that was used as a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.

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Aubazine

Aubazine (Obasina in Occitan) is the official name (incorrectly spelt Aubazines on many maps and notably in the INSEE database) of a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.

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Audrey Tautou

Audrey Justine Tautou (born 9 August 1976) is a French actress and model.

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Émilienne d’Alençon

Émilienne d’Alençon (1869–1946) was a French dancer, actress and courtesan.

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Étienne Balsan

Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878 – 1953) was born in Paris, France, as Fulcran Étienne Balsan.

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Barbora Bobuľová

Barbora Bobuľová (born 29 April 1974) is a Slovak actress.

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Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde (born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor and comedian.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Biarritz

Biarritz (Biarritz or Miarritze; Gascon Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Bourjois

Bourjois is a French cosmetics company currently owned by the American group Coty Inc. Bourjois creates make-up, fragrance and skincare products, which are sold in approximately 23 000 points of sales in more than 50 countries worldwide, as of 2015.

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Boutique

A boutique is "a small store that sells stylish clothing, jewelry, or other usually luxury goods".

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Boy Capel

Captain Arthur Edward "Boy" Capel CBE (December 1881 – 22 December 1919) was an English polo player, possibly best-remembered for being a lover and muse of fashion designer Coco Chanel.

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Brive-la-Gaillarde

Brive-la-Gaillarde (Limousin dialect of Occitan language: Briva la Galharda) is a commune of France.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Café-chantant

Café chantant (French: lit. "singing café"), café-concert or caf’conc, is a type of musical establishment associated with the belle époque in France.

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Camellia

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae.

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Chandler Burr

Chandler Burr (born December 30, 1963) is an American journalist, author, and museum curator.

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Chanel

Chanel S.A. is a French, privately held company owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who was an early business partner of the couturière Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.

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Chanel 2.55

The Chanel 2.55 is a luxury leather handbag or purse manufactured by the fashion house of Chanel.

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Chanel No. 5

Chanel No.

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Chanel Solitaire

Chanel Solitaire is a 1981 British-French historical drama film directed by George Kaczender and starring Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer, Brigitte Fossey, Karen Black, Lambert Wilson.

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Charvet Place Vendôme

Charvet Place Vendôme, pronounced, or simply Charvet, is a French high-end shirt maker and tailor located at 28 Place Vendôme in Paris.

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Chatelaine (chain)

A chatelaine is a decorative belt hook or clasp worn at the waist with a series of chains suspended from it.

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Chris Greenhalgh

Chris Greenhalgh is a British novelist, screenwriter, teacher and poet.

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Christian Dior

Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault.

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Christian Dior SE

Christian Dior SE, commonly known as Dior, is a European luxury goods company controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault, who also heads LVMH – the world's largest luxury group.

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Christian Duguay (director)

Christian Duguay (born March 30, 1956) is a Canadian director.

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Cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.

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Coco (musical)

Coco was a 1969 Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by André Previn, inspired by the life of Coco Chanel.

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Coco and Igor

Coco and Igor is a 2002 novel by Chris Greenhalgh.

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Coco Before Chanel

Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) is a 2009 biographical drama film directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine.

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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a 2009 French film directed by Jan Kounen.

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Coco Chanel (film)

Coco Chanel is a 2008 television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri.

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Colette

Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

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Collaboration with the Axis Powers

Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers in World War II, some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly collaborated with the Axis Powers.

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Corrèze

Corrèze (Corresa) is a department in south-western France, named after the river Corrèze which runs though it.

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Corset

A corset is a garment worn to hold and train the torso into a desired shape, traditionally a smaller waist or larger bottom, for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it or with a more lasting effect).

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Courtesan

A courtesan was originally a courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.

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Cristóbal Balenciaga

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre (January 21, 1895 – March 23, 1972) was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house.

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Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St.

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Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.

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Deauville

Deauville is a commune in the Calvados département in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Diana Vreeland

Diana Vreeland (September 29, 1903 – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion.

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Dressmaker

A dressmaker is a person who makes custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.

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Duff Cooper

Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year, after which he became the Duke of Windsor.

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Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer.

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Emery Reves

Emery Reves (Révész Imre) (16 February 1904 – 4 October 1981) was a writer, publisher, literary agent and advocate of world federalism.

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Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.

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Félix Amiot

Félix Amiot (17 October 1894 – 21 December 1974) was a French aircraft constructor.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Ford Model T

The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Leaping Lena, or flivver) is an automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Freiherr

Freiherr (male, abbreviated as Frhr.), Freifrau (his wife, abbreviated as Frfr., literally "free lord" or "free lady") and Freiin (his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, and in its various successor states, including Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, etc.

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French fashion

Fashion in France is an important aspect in the spectrum of culture and social life, as well as being an important aspect of the economy.

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Fulco di Verdura

Fulco di Verdura (20 March 1898 – 15 August 1978), or Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura, and Marquis of Murata la Cerda, was an influential Italian jeweller.

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Gabrielle Dorziat

Gabrielle Dorziat (1880–1979) was a French stage and film actress.

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Galeries Lafayette

The Galeries Lafayette is an upmarket French department store chain.

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George Kaczender

George Kaczender (19 April 1933 – 24 August 2016) was a Hungarian-born Canadian film director.

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German military administration in occupied France during World War II

The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star, in the critically acclaimed 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.

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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890–1958)

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна; St. Petersburg, – Konstanz, 13 December 1958), known as Maria Pavlovna the Younger, was a granddaughter of Alexander II of Russia.

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Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia

Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich of Russia (Его Императорское Высочество Великий Князь Дмитрий Павлович; 18 September 1891 – 5 March 1942) was a Russian Grand Duke and one of the few Romanovs to escape murder by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish film actress during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Grosgrain

Grosgrain, also gros-grain and, rarely, gros grain, is a type of fabric characterized by its ribbed appearance.

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Hal Vaughan

Hal W. Vaughan (1928- October 17, 2013) was an American author and journalist based in Paris, France.

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Handbag

A handbag, also called purse in North American English, is a handled medium-to-large bag used to carry personal items.

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Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is an American women's fashion magazine, first published in 1867.

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Hatmaking

Hatmaking or millinery is the design, manufacture and sale of hats and head-wear.

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Haute couture

Haute couture (French for "high sewing" or "high dressmaking" or "high fashion") is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing.

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Hôtel Ritz Paris

The Ritz Paris is a hotel in central Paris, in the 1st arrondissement.

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Headscarf

Headscarves or head scarves are scarves covering most or all of the top of a person's, usually women, hair and her head, leaving the face uncovered.

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Henry Clarke (photographer)

Henry Clarke (c. 1917 – April 26, 1996) was an American fashion photographer, known particularly for his work for Vogue.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

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Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster

Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, (familiarly "Bendor") (19 March 1879 – 19 July 1953) was a British landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the world.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Ina Claire

Ina Claire (October 15, 1893February 21, 1985) was an American stage and film actress.

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Jacques Chazot

Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic (Morbihan), d. 12 July 1993 in Monthyon (Seine-et-Marne) was a French dancer and socialite.

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Jacques Fath

Jacques Fath (6 September 1912 in Maisons-Laffitte, France – 13 November 1954 in Paris, France) was a French fashion designer who was considered one of the three dominant influences on postwar haute couture, the others being Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain.

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Jan Kounen

Jan Kounen (born Jan Coenen on 2 May 1964) is a Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands-born French film director and producer.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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Jersey (fabric)

Jersey is a knit fabric used predominantly for clothing manufacture.

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Jet (lignite)

Pendant in Jet, Magdalenian, Marsoulas MHNT Jet is a type of lignite, a precursor to coal, and is a gemstone.

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Jewellery

Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.

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Josep Maria Sert

Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Barcelona, 21 December 1874 – 27 November 1945, buried in the Vic Cathedral) was a Spanish muralist, the son of an affluent textile industry family, and friend of Salvador Dalí.

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Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Otto Lagerfeld (Hamburg, 10 September 1933) is a German creative director, artist, and photographer based in Paris.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress.

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La Dame aux Camélias

La Dame aux Camélias (literally The Lady with the Camellias, commonly known in English as Camille) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'', first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage.

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La Madeleine, Paris

L'église de la Madeleine (Madeleine Church; more formally, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine; less formally, just La Madeleine) is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

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La Pausa

La Pausa is a large detached villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France.

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Laundry

Laundry refers to the washing of clothing and other textiles.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Lausanne Losanna, Losanna) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud.

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Le Meurice

Le Meurice is a 5-star hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli.

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Legitimacy (family law)

Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.

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Little black dress

A little black dress (LBD) is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short.

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Longchamp Racecourse

The ParisLongchamp Racecourse (Hippodrome de Longchamp) is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France.

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Luca Turin

Luca Turin (born 20 November 1953) is a Lebanese American biophysicist and writer with a long-standing interest in the sense of smell, perfumery, and the fragrance industry.

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Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter.

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Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen, (born 22 November 1965) is a Danish actor.

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Maine-et-Loire

Maine-et-Loire is a department of the Loire Valley in west-central France, in the Pays de la Loire region.

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Maltese cross

The Maltese cross is the cross symbol associated with the Order of St. John since 1567, with the Knights Hospitaller and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and by extension with the island of Malta.

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Mariano Fortuny (designer)

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (in Catalan Marià Fortuny i de Madrazo,; 11 May 1871 – 3 May 1949) was a Spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946.

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Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier (10 May 194424 April 2011) was a French actress, screenwriter, and director.

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Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Marie-Hélène Françoise Arnaud (24 September 1934 – 6 October 1986) was a French model and actress.

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the east edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Misia Sert

Misia Sert (born Maria Zofia Olga Zenajda Godebska; March 30, 1872 – October 15, 1950) was a pianist of Polish descent who hosted an artistic salon in Paris.

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Mistress (lover)

A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo, or colloquially Monte-Carl; Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) officially refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Morphine

Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate variety which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals.

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Moulins, Allier

Moulins (Molins) is a commune in central France, capital of the Allier department.

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Neiman Marcus Fashion Award

The Neiman Marcus Award for Distinguished Service in the Field of Fashion was a yearly award created in 1938 by Carrie Marcus Neiman and Stanley Marcus.

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Olivier Sitruk

Olivier Sitruk (born December 25, 1970 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France), is a French comedian, actor, and producer, who has appeared in 44 films and television shows.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paul Iribe

Paul Iribe (8 June 1883 – 21 September 1935) was a French illustrator, and designer in the decorative arts.

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Paul Morand

Paul Morand (March 13, 1888 – July 24, 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power.

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Pierre Laval

Pierre Jean-Marie Laval (28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician.

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Pierre Reverdy

Pierre Reverdy (13 September 1889 – 17 June 1960) was a French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence the provocative art movements of the day, Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism.

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Pierre Wertheimer

Pierre Wertheimer (8 January 1888 – 24 April 1965) was a French businessman.

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Poorhouse

A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run (usually by a county or municipality) facility to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy.

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Prussian Army

The Royal Prussian Army (Königlich Preußische Armee) served as the army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Reich Main Security Office

The Reich Main Security OfficeReichssicherheitshauptamt is variously translated as "Reich Main Security Office", "Reich Security Main Office", "Reich Central Security Main Office", "Reich Security Central Office", "Reich Head Security Office", or "Reich Security Head Office".

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René de Chambrun

Count René Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun (23 August 1906 – 19 May 2002), was a French-American aristocrat, lawyer, businessman and author.

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Robert Piguet

Robert Piguet (1898 – 1953) was a Swiss-born, Paris-based fashion designer who is mainly remembered for training Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy.

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Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Ròcabruna Caup Martin, Roccabruna-Capo Martino) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France between Monaco and Menton.

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Rutger Hauer

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Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; שמואל געלבפֿיש; c. August 27, 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer of Jewish descent.

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Saumur

Saumur is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Serge Klarsfeld

Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals.

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Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (née Beaty; born April 24, 1934) is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS (Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

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Slavs

Slavs are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group who speak the various Slavic languages of the larger Balto-Slavic linguistic group.

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Sparrow

Sparrows are a family of small passerine birds.

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Subsequent Nuremberg trials

The subsequent Nuremberg trials (formally the Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals) were a series of twelve U.S. military tribunals for war crimes against members of the leadership of Nazi Germany, held in the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, after World War II from 1946 to 1949 following the Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Théophile Bader

Théophile Bader (24 April 1864 – 16 March 1942) was a French businessman.

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The Allure of Chanel

The Allure of Chanel are the memoirs of the French fashion designer Coco Chanel, told to her friend Paul Morand.

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The Greeks Had a Word for Them

The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932), also known as Three Broadway Girls, is a pre-Code comedy film directed by Lowell Sherman, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and released by United Artists.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps; sacred spring) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game (original French title: La Règle du Jeu) is a 1939 French film directed by Jean Renoir.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century

Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine in 1999.

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Timothy Dalton

Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (born 21 March 1946) is an English actor.

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Tonight or Never (1931 film)

Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Gloria Swanson and featuring Boris Karloff.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский;; Wacław Niżyński; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

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Vera Bate Lombardi

Vera Bate Lombardi, born Vera Nina Arkwright but said to have used the name Sarah Gertrude Arkwright, (1883–1948) was a British socialite and close associate of Coco Chanel and the mother of Bridget Bate Tichenor.

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Vichy

Vichy (Vichèi in Occitan) is a city in the Allier department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France, in the historic province of Bourbonnais.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine covering many topics including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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Walter Kutschmann

Walter Kutschmann (24 July 1914 – 30 August 1986) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and Gestapo officer, a member of an Einsatzkommando, based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz.

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Walter Schellenberg

Walter Friedrich Schellenberg (16 January 1910 – 31 March 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

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