When her mother died, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel – then 12 years old – and her two sisters were left in the care of the nuns of Aubazine, a Cistercian abbey in Corrèze in the south-west of France. She would spend her teenage years there – at 18 she left to go to Notre Dame school in Moulins – living in the orphanage the nuns had built within their walls. A young Chanel wasthe school’s strict regimen, and dreamed of escape.
Yesterday, Virginie Viard – the first woman to helm the house after Coco Chanel herself – conjured this sheltered world within Paris’ Grand Palais, in the kind of transportative spectacle the house of Chanel has long been known for. Surrounded by fluttering vintage linens, hung on washing lines, was a recreation of Aubazine’s cloistered garden, a stone courtyard punctuated with tangles of flowers and vegetables .
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