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• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | DVD | (22/11/2010) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky - based on Chris Greenhalgh's 'Coco & Igor' - pays tribute to the life of Coco after Chanel and as revealed in the title explores the electric relationship between the French fashion icon and the radical Russian-born composer. The two meet at the disastrous premier of Stravinsky's controversial The Rite of Spring a performance that mesmerises Chanel but due to a riot like reception leaves Stravinsky inconsolable. It takes 7 years before they meet again in Paris - now Chanel is both rich and respected whereas Stravinsky is living in exile as a penniless refugee. There is an immediate powerful attraction and she decides to shelter Stravinsky offering him her villa 'Bel Respiro' as a sanctuary for his composing as Chanel herself begins creating the revolutionary iconic perfume No5. Stravinsky moves in straight away with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate fiery love affair between two creative giants commence...