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50. Baron Hans von Dincklage, passport photograph, 1950.

51. Model wearing Chanel suit; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

52. Model in tiered strapless gown with roses; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

53. Coco Chanel on mirrored staircase at her couture house, 1954; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

54. Chanel models at 31 rue Cambon, 1958; Roger Viollet/Topfoto.

55. Coco Chanel pinning dress on model 1959; Archive Photos/Getty Images.

56. Animal sculptures in Chanel’s rue Cambon salon; © Simon Upton, The Interior Archive.

57. Dining room in Chanel’s rue Cambon apartment; © Massimo Listri/ CORBIS.

58. Fashion designer Coco Chanel c. 1965; © Condé Nast Archive/CORBIS.

59. Models attending mass for Coco Chanel; © Bettmann/CORBIS.

INDEX

Abdy, Lady

Abernon, Helen d’

Abetz, Otto

Abetz, Suzanne

Action Française

actresses

Aimée, Anouk

Alain-Fournier

À la recherche du temps perdu (Proust)

Albania

Alcazar

aldehydes

Alençon, Emilienne d’

Alexander, King of Yugoslavia

alienation

Allenby, Edmund

Allied Force Headquarters

Allied War Coal Commission

Allure of Chanel, The (Morand)

Amazons

American Emergency Rescue Committee

Amiot, Félix

Angèle (seamstress)

Antigone (Sophocles)

anti-Semitism

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Apollon musagète (ballet)

Après-midi d’un faune, L’ (ballet)

Aquascutum

Aragon, Louis

A. Rallet & Co.

Arbuthnot-Leslie, Mrs. William

Arcangues, Comtesse Mimi D’

archery

architecture

Argentina

Arletty

Arnaud, Marie-Hélène

Arrivabene, Madina

Arrivabene, Niki

Astruc, Gabriel

atelier system

Aubazine convent

Aubert, Mme.

Auden, W. H.

Auric, Georges

Auschwitz

Austria

Avedon, Richard

Bacall, Lauren

Bader, Théophile

Bailey, David

Baker, Josephine

Bakst, Léon

Balanchine, George

Bal du Comte d’Orgel, Le

Balenciaga, Cristóbal

Ballard, Bettina

Ballets Russes

Balmain, Pierre

Balsan, Charles

Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt

Balsan, Etienne

and Coco’s relationship with Capel

as horseman

in proposals to Coco

as womanizer

Balsan, Jacques

Balsan, Robert

Balzac, Honoré de

Banque de France

Barney, Natalie

Barrie, J. M.

Barrow, George de Symons

Barthes, Roland

Barthou, Foreign Minister

Basilica of Saint Anthony, Padua

Bate, Frederick

Bate-Lombardi, Vera

battle of the sexes

Beaton, Cecil

Beaufort Castle

Beaumont, Edith

Beaumont, Etienne de

Beaumont College

Beaux, Ernest

Bedford, Sybille

Beige

Bel Ami (Maupassant)

belle excentrique, La (ballet)

Bel Respiro

Bend’Or

Bérard, Christian (Bébé)

Bergen, Candice

Bergman, Ingrid

Bernhardt, Sarah

Bernstein, Antoinette

Bernstein, Georges

Bernstein, Henri-Adrien

Berthelot, Philippe

Besson, Luc

beuglants

Biarritz, France

bias-cut clothes

Bibesco, Princess Marthe

Bibliothèque Nationale

biches, Les (Diaghilev ballet)

Blanche, Jacques-Emile

Bloomingdale’s

blues

Blue Train

Blum, Léon

boeuf sur le toit, Le (Cocteau)

Boeuf sur le Toit, Le (bar)

Bohan, Marc

Boldini, Giovanni

Bon Marché, Le

Bonnard, Pierre

Boulez, Pierre

Bouquet, Carole

Bouquet de Catherine

Bourdelle, Antoine

Bourjois

Bousquet, Marie-Louise

boussac, Marcel

Bow, Clara

brands

Braque, Georges

Breker, Arno

Bresson, Robert

Breton, André

British Expeditionary Force

British War Office

Brosse

Brown Network, The

Brunhoff, Maurice de

Brunhoff, Michel de

Buchenwald

Bullitt, William

Burberry

Burton, Richard

cabarets

Café de Paris

café society

Caillavet, Simone de

calisthenics

camellia flower

Capel, Ann Diana France Ayesha

Capel, Arthur

birth of

Coco’s first meeting with

Coco supported by

death of

inheritance of

letters of

marriage proposal to Wyndham by

on Misia’s decorations

in Morand’s novel

poor health of

rumored paternity of

in Sem’s caricature

at Sorel’s dinner party

treatise on women by

at Versailles conference

will of

womanizing by

work done by

in World War I,

Wyndham’s affair with

Capel, Arthur Joseph

Capel, Bertha

Capel, Berthe

Capel, Edith

Capel, June

Capel, Marie-Henriette

Capel, Thomas

Caracciolo, Olga

Cardin,