Coco Chanel Igor Stravinsky _verified_

He was composing a requiem for the war dead, but in that villa, it became an elegy for his own morality. He was sleeping with his patron ten meters from his dying wife’s bedroom.

It is widely rumored they had a passionate affair during this stay. Chanel spoke of it to her biographer, Paul Morand, though Stravinsky’s estate and the Chanel fashion house have disputed these claims. Coco Chanel Igor Stravinsky

The affair lasted roughly nine months. It ended not with a dramatic fight, but with a slow, inevitable collapse. Catherine’s health deteriorated. The strain of the arrangement became unbearable. Chanel, never one for domesticity, grew restless. She was a woman of Paris, not the suburbs. And Stravinsky, ever the anxious melancholic, began to feel emasculated by her power. He was, after all, living in her house, eating her food, sleeping in her bed. He was composing a requiem for the war