Anne de Courcy on Chanel's saucy secrets

Episode 29,   Aug 16, 2019, 10:27 AM

What is the difference between Old Masters and old mistresses? Where did Chanel put her No. 5? Whose yacht was called the 'floating double-bed'?

Anne de Courcy examines life in the French Riviera before and during the war.

Her new book, Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d’Azur, 1930–1944, is published by W&N.