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19. Gabrielle was in the minority of women who took to playing sports. At Deauville,
c.
1913.
20. Gabrielle, Capel and Constant
Say at St-Jean-de-Luz in a moment of calm during the First World War.
21. The Picassos in front of Pablo's Ballets Russes poster, 1917. Olga's outfit, including her handbag, are Chanel.
22. John Singer Sargent's drawing of Diana Wyndham, the young Englishwoman who would usurp Gabrielle.
23. Deauville Polo Club's Arthur Capel trophy, given by his sister, Berthe, possibly in conjunction with Gabrielle.
24. Sergei Diaghilev (
left
) and Igor Stravinsky,
c.
1920, with whom Gabrielle became intimately associated.
25. Clockwise from top left: Stravinsky, José Maria Sert, Gabrielle and the inimitable Misia Sert.
26. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich.
27. Gabrielle in the garden of her palatial new address, 29 Faubourg St-Honoré, early 1920s.
28. Dmitri Pavlovich
.
with Gabrielle, 1920.
29. The earliest depiction of Chanel N°5, by Sem,
c.
1921–2.
30. Gabrielle's costumes for
Le Train bleu
, 1922, were crucial to its up-to-the-minute air. Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Jean Cocteau, Leon Woizikovsky, Bronislava Nijinska.
31. Lydia Sokolova, Anton Dolin, Bronislava Nijinska and Leon Woizikovsky in
Le Train bleu
.

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