I admire the young Coco, because having so little luck at the start

and to do what she did, it's fantastic.

I have a lot of admiration for the child

because she had no education, incredibly poor parents

an absent father, nothing.

I mean, her starting point was zero

so it is fantastic what she was able to do.

I think that the nuns were extremely cruel,

it must have been a bad atmosphere.

The hygiene must have been horrible,

with horrible food.

It must have been cold in winter.

It must have been horrible, the punishments, prayers at impossible hours.

One wonders how they survived, without catching diseases,

colds, the flu, pneumonia and the rest.

It was sordid.

Coco's career, was not made in 24 hours.

There is only her charisma to explain it.

She must have had charm and zest,

I think she had a zest in her youth,

that others did not have.

Chanel, she had an irresistible side.

Chanel, she had a natural distinction.

A definition of elegance.

She was like this in photos

the beauty of the devil with lots of hair,

a very low forehead, strong eyebrows.

She was like a rural Audrey Hepburn

and she wore relatively simple things,

almost like a governess.

But there is nothing wrong with that,

It is more elegant than the fuss and cheap frills

of filthy satins.

To not have a full garden on your head,

it was almost wrong.

To wear a small, straw piece,

round, with a single feather,

it was an act of courage for the period.

It was a horrible period.

You had to survive,

it was believed to be the Belle Époque,

it was rather sordid.

It was much more difficult for women, particularly, to succeed

than it is today.

It was necessary to succeed,

to prove that one had a place in the sun.

This is quite normal, worthy and even admirable.

Personally, I understand Coco Chanel.

I understand her spite, everything,

because if she became, what she became,

it was also a triumph of who she was,

it is to her credit not to let others trample her.

It helped a great deal to make her a legend.

She was made of legends.

But she is right.

You do not owe the truth to anyone.

She created an image

and she liked the idea that posterity was held in this image.

Now we say, "it was not like that,"

how important is it?

The result is there. The image is there.

The spirit is there. It still lives.

100 years later,

there are 300 Chanel boutiques worldwide.

There was a single boutique in 1913, in Deauville.

So frankly, how important is it?

She accomplished something

where no one else managed to succeed.