Coco Chanel · every age
What was Coco Chanel doing at 59?
Orphanage seamstress; remade fashion at 30 and again at 70
- c. 1943
Went to Madrid carrying an SS-backed peace overture
She sought the British ambassador, a friend of Churchill. The scheme came to nothing.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Los Angeles Times (1931), UCLA Library, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · source