Coco Chanel with her then lover Grand Duke Dmitrii Pavlovich 1920. “Those Grand Dukes were all the same - they looked marvellous but there was nothing behind. Green eyes, fine hands and shoulders, peace-loving, timorous. They drank so as not to be afraid. They were tall and handsome and splendid, but behind it all - nothing; just vodka and the void.” - Chanel to Claude Delay

Coco Chanel with her then lover Grand Duke Dmitrii Pavlovich 1920. “Those Grand Dukes were all the same - they looked marvellous but there was nothing behind. Green eyes, fine hands and shoulders, peace-loving, timorous. They drank so as not to be afraid. They were tall and handsome and splendid, but behind it all - nothing; just vodka and the void.” - Chanel to Claude Delay