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‘Living well is the best revenge’
Yet Chanel remained indomitable; refusing to grow old and invisible or to wrap herself in a shroud of obscurity or penitence. She painted her lips crimson – a slash of blood red, like a wound or a challenge – and exaggerated her eyebrows in black, as if drawing her own portrait of her face.
‘A woman with good shoes is never ugly,’ commented Mademoiselle, adding another maxim to her collection. ‘They are the last touch of elegance.’
But then Chanel reassured herself that she was right, as always. ‘When one makes up one’s mind to tell the truth, one has to go all the way.’
