"It is as frightening to be too rich as to be too big. In the first case you cannot find happiness, and in the second you cannot find a bed." Coco Chanel, natural daughter of a peasant woman, abandoned by her father in an orphanage, managed become the most admired woman in the fashion world of all time. Her biography is full of succulent events. Thus it was said that the French designer acted as an agent for German intelligence and that she tried to mediate between Churchill and Hitler, since she had met Sir Winston through her lover, the Duke of Westminster.
Champion of sobriety in the face of ostentation, her poor chic elevated her. Marilyn revealed the name of her most faithful lover, Chanel 5 perfume, and revitalized her career. With a fortune of 25 million dollars she died alone in front of the television in her suite at the Ritz. She was 87 years old.
The echo of his death occupied a large part of the cover of La Vanguardia.
