Coco: Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
While Stravinsky lived in her home, Chanel was finalizing the formula for her legendary Chanel No. 5.
Their story—one of mutual artistic obsession and "cold passion"—was famously dramatized in the 2009 film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky starring Mads Mikkelsen and Anna Mouglalis. Though the Chanel fashion house maintains there is no concrete evidence of the romance, the idea of these two "titans of modernism" inspiring each other remains one of the most intoxicating myths of the Art Deco era. Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Venice , 1937 Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
When the "Rite of Spring" met the scent of a revolution. 🖤🎹 While Stravinsky lived in her home, Chanel was
What followed was a rumored, passionate affair that supposedly fueled some of their greatest works: Though the Chanel fashion house maintains there is
Stravinsky was concurrently revising his groundbreaking and scandalous score, The Rite of Spring .