Chanel loves black - I love black so much, its power travels through time and space and sweeps across everything. This sentence is about herself. Doesn’t she, and her works, travel through time and space and sweep across all things?

Chanel never married. In her later years, she said she regretted this more than once, and also said to her niece Gabrielle, who admired her the most: "Live a simple life, have a husband and children - and be with the people you love, this is the real life. ”

When she was young, Chanel always wanted to catch a rich husband. After all, for a poor girl like her who grew up in a convent, using marriage to change her destiny is definitely a shortcut.

Ethier Baleson: The First Rich Boyfriend

The story of Chanel and Baleson alone is enough to write an entire chapter. A Mary Sue TV series. Both of them remained unmarried and maintained a lifelong friendship. After Chanel became famous, Baleson maintained a rare silence and could be called a peerless good predecessor.

Although saying this is disrespectful to the idol, Chanel is indeed the canary of Baleson.

Gossips who study Chanel have always believed that Chanel was pregnant with Balcon's child. But there are two opinions. One theory is that Chanel will be infertile for the rest of her life because of the abortion. There is also a theory that the so-called nephew who was brought to 6 years old by Chanel was originally her and Baleson's child.

Chanel spent 6 years at the manor in Balcon. These six years of revelry turned a little girl from a poor family into a quasi-social butterfly.

When she was young, Chanel had thick long hair. After becoming famous, she became obsessed with short hair, to the point where she would rush to cut off anyone she saw with long hair. Among her models, only one was lucky enough to keep her hair long.

Later biographers wrote meaningfully: "She said that courtesans make people feel clean, while women in upper-class society are very dirty." This sentence is very hard not to make people feel jealous—— In the end, upper-class men end up marrying upper-class women.

For Chanel, these six years have been six years of dream-building and six years of broken dreams.

The teacher said, when she was young, which girl didn’t exchange her smile for something?

Yes, children from ordinary families are not born to be heroines. They just change from canaries to eagles, from Cinderella to princesses.

Boy Capot: The second rich boyfriend

Chanel met Boy Capot at the manor in Baleson. Love at first sight, elope at second sight.

She went to Paris with Capel, and on the third day, Baleson also followed.

This story is interesting.

Jealousy made Baleson realize how much he loves Chanel. But Chanel only called Caper, and Baleson was heartbroken and went to Argentina to recover from his injuries.

Caper had many lovers. Chanel was arranged to stay at the Ritz Hotel. She was penniless, but everything in the hotel was paid for in advance.

Caper was a wealthy man, but not an aristocrat like Baleson. Chanel loved him very much. After his death, Chanel said: "Capital left and took everything with him."

"Only brothel girls are kept." This is what Chanel said herself, so she told him While living with Caper, she decided to make hats and sell them to upper-class women.

Caper and Baleson almost had a duel over money. In the end, they jointly shared the start-up capital of the Chanel hat store.

Look, what is a winner in life? This is it.

Unfortunately, life is not a TV series. The rules of the marriage game in the upper class are that they are well matched. Although Chanel's fashion company was profitable, Caper still married Diana, an aristocratic girl who became pregnant out of wedlock.

Caper made a fortune by selling coal during the war. He is NEW MONEY. There are constant rumors that he is the illegitimate son of someone. He needs a wife of aristocratic descent to consolidate his social status.

Less than two years after their marriage, Caper died in a car accident. Leaving a fortune of 700,000 pounds, Chanel and his other lover each received 40,000, and the rest was left to Diana and their children. 40,000 pounds in 1919 is equivalent to 1.3 million pounds today, more than 11 million yuan.

Chanel used the money to develop the company.

Capard was Chanel’s lifelong favorite. To what extent? I don’t mind his infidelity (there’s nothing I can do if I do).

Archduke Dimitri: The kept man

After Chanel got rich, she was very keen on keeping men. The items she kept included a poor poet, a ballet director, and this poor man. Noble, Grand Duke Demetrius.

Grand Duke Dimitri was a Russian nobleman who fled to France.

In this relationship, Chanel created an elegant example of "how to date a poor man" -

"I just bought a car and we went on a self-driving trip." < /p>

"I have no money, I just have one thousand and fifty in my hand."

"That's enough, I'll also give you one thousand and five, and we can play for a week."

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Of course the money is not enough, so we subsidize it quietly. He also deliberately asked the hotel manager to give Dimitri a small bill, pretending that everything here was very cheap.

Their romance was short and like fireworks. After all, successful women can't stand being unable to spend their money openly for a long time.

The Duke of Westminster: The man who almost got married

The Duke of Westminster was the richest man in Britain at the time. His Eton Manor was in the Wray Forest on his property. This forest covers an area of ??50,000 hectares. , equivalent to 500 square kilometers.

For several years, Chanel regarded herself as the mistress of Eaton Manor, but she also encountered a problem that professional women would encounter: the inability to balance love and career.

Every time she had to go out to work, even to prepare for her own fashion show, the Duke of Westminster was very unhappy. Chanel described juggling her business and life with the Duke of Westminster as "almost like walking on a tightrope." Once you learn this sentence, you can use it in the future.

Pearl necklaces are Ms. Chanel’s favorite in her life, and she likes her dress of this period very much.

Chanel is the female head of the fashion empire, and Westminster is the owner of Eton Manor. The two seemed to be a perfect match, but they failed to get together in the end for a very ridiculous reason. Because the Duke of Westminster must have a son and inherit his huge family property. Chanel has never been able to get pregnant. As people reach middle age, the probability of pregnancy becomes smaller and smaller.

Therefore, in the third marriage of the Duke of Westminster, he married a young girl in her twenties who was in her childbearing period.

Explode? A person as awesome as Chanel also encounters such ridiculous, worldly and realistic things?

Of course, love and marriage are never the same thing. Marriage in upper class society has a thick standardized manual.

However, Chanel opened her boutique in London in the Duke of Westminster's house, just like her first hat shop in Paris was opened in the house of Ethier Baleson.

Chanel’s love life is much more than that.

Her love history is full of the helplessness of being a woman in the context of the times. This helplessness is felt not only by women but also by men. Except for Mary Sue movies and TV series, no one can live without the times. The times create everyone and also limit everyone. < /p>

All great women or men can not only tell stories, but also make famous quotes. Among all Chanel's famous quotes, my favorite is not that style lasts, or that another name for women is self, but the following sentence -

"What a woman needs most is to be independent from men, and Not equality. Equality is just the next best thing.

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