![]() And the biggest buyers used to be the Russians. We take them to see naked men, since it’s new and interesting.įemale fashion used to be always made in France, always. He’s a well-bred, charming man who thought that if you’re going to get all those people over, you might as well entertain them throughout their stay, open La Scala, hire people, try to entertain the fashion crowd. They have officials, but where do you find them, you don’t find them in the street, it’s a former ambassador, who looks after Couture. The Italians, you see, organise Week very well. We lost Couture last year to the Italians, we didn’t do a thing to fight it. I have the feeling we’re loosing prestige. If we were protected a little bit, we’d keep some prestige. ![]() ![]() I couldn’t do it if I had to come up with something new every week, you end up creating very ugly thing. Some couturiers are really good couturiers but they change every week, and this is the reason why I’ve created my own style. Unfortunately, this is what is happening at the moment. Micheline Sandrel: How do you manage to be both varied and true to yourself in your creative process?Ĭoco Chanel: If you move away from style, you have to start over and over again, it’s impossible. This shows how much I’ve changed because two years ago I would have said: "to hell with what they need, they can do whatever they want, I won’t make trousers”. We don’t like skirts anymore, we like trousers so I’ll make some. Wearing trousers doesn’t change their face. Women are becoming I don’t know what… the other sex… I don’t know how you do that. Nothing is more aging than trying to look younger, it’s the stupidest thing a woman can do, thinking “if I’m wearing trousers, I’ll look younger than if I’m wearing a skirt”. After a certain age, it looks like you put them on to look younger. Micheline Sandrel: Don’t you think it looks good on all women?Ĭoco Chanel: No, no. But from this usage to it becoming a fashion, having 70% of women wearing trousers at evening dinner is quite sad. You can roll around in the sand all day long. A skirt isn’t pretty, a robe is awful, trousers are the best option. Once you’ve bathed, even if you want to stay on the beach, putting on trousers isn’t that difficult. I came up with them by modesty, because I find wearing a swimsuit on the beach similar to walking around naked. In the countryside you wear trousers, it’s the most useful thing, you don’t get cold, you can get a bit wet it doesn’t matter. I stop her, tell her not to walk like that, take the trousers off her, put them on another girl, exactly the same result. Maybe because they feel they need to waddle. If it pleases them, so be it, but I can sure I don’t know them.Ĭoco Chanel: These girls, you dress them in trousers, they become vulgar, I don’t know why. What do you mean you don’t know? No I don’t know. No I don’t know them, I’m sure I’ve never seen them, but you have to pretend to be polite, shake their hand… People I’m with ask me who they are… I don’t know. Often, too often to my taste, I find it tiring. Micheline Sandrel: Do people recognise you in the street and talk to you?Ĭoco Chanel: Yes. I’d been watching them for a while, thinking that if she didn’t shut up, he’d slap her. ![]() Dressed in a caricature-defying monochrome outfit and costume jewellery, she proclaimed her hatred of knees, short skirts, gossip, Moon trips, trousers and rude people.Ĭoco Chanel: I saw that three days ago in the street. With a granny eye on society and an unedited tendency to piss on her time, she had the decisiveness of a successful business woman who’s seen it all but doesn’t necessarily understand the world round her. The interview is now available on You Tube in two parts ( Part 1, Part 2 - I’m having embedding issues), via French TV archives institute INA. Sometimes after 20 July 1969, she answered journalist and TV presenter Micheline Sandrel’s questions in an organised stream of consciousness manner. Coco Chanel, aged 86, must have been the dream interviewee*.
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