Legacy Matters
I'm really looking forward to the new movie Coco Before Chanel by Anne Fontaine starring the extraordinary French actress Audrey Tautou. It won't be in the U.S. until September 25, but it's being released tomorrow in the U.K,
With it, press articles and trailers to whet our appetite and my desire to see how this movie depicts the remarkable life of an extraordinary woman .
The Woman who REALLY invented French dressing: New movie reveals a different side to Coco Chanel
Chanel lived till 1971, having spent her final years in her private suite at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.
Fontaine says: 'At the end, she felt a life without a husband and children was a disaster. She was very alone and the day she died, she went up to the concierge and told him: "In about three or four minutes, I'm going to die."
'She went up to her room and was dead five minutes later. She was so much of a control freak in her life that it was no surprise that she had that control in death, too.'