On View | portraits and memories of Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel was very protective of her life story , omitting the less savory details of his working class roots and revisionism case fell short , Miu Miu Purse easy to destroy personal and other documents. And it is both fascinating and casual ( at least for those who are interested in demystifying the past) is in his last years , Chanel befriends privileged artists and unattended Marion Pike, the third generation who traveled a lot in Europe of 16 years and studied California at Stanford University . Pike meticulously preserved telegrams , clothes , photos and other memorabilia from the time the duo together . These memories with five acrylic portraits of Chanel , the theme of the exhibition " Coco Chanel : A new portrait of Marion Pike ," which opens tomorrow at the gallery space of fashion in London.
Although it declined famous for his portrait by other artist friends , including Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, Chanel invited Pike, his studio at 31 rue Cambon, just three days after the meeting. Chanel was so happy with the paintings of Pike - the first was made in 1967 , when Chanel was 84 and 54 Pike - which appears to mark next to its spring 1968 collection her .miu miu shoulder Besides Chanel, Pike also painted portraits of dignitaries such as Ronald Reagan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pope John Paul II , John Wayne, Bob Hope, Rosalind Russell , Claudette Colbert and André Malraux . " Marion put his assistants at ease and let their inner soul light in color ," said Amy de la Haye , the curator of the exhibition . "They did this effectively with Chanel, who found fascinating However, it is perhaps the ephemeral highlighting practically their friendship . Received a telegram from Coco Marion Asia Southeast asked him to go home , because they are laughing their a picture of the wrong two women together on the balcony of the house of Chanel in Lausanne and much more. "
For its part , the daughter of pike, Jeffie Durham remembers the first time her mother met Chanel in February. " Coco was a port and not acknowledge his presence," she said. " . Was for more than an hour , my mother a door in the sketch stage Finally, Coco , was asked to see the sketchbook , then said : " You have the hands of a true artist . " Then she took the scarf she was wearing , put it around my mother's neck and said: . " Please come by tomorrow afternoon we are good friends, " My mother held the cloth has become for the rest of his life. . "
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" Coco Chanel : A new portrait of Marion Pike " opens 5 September and is up to 15 November continued;