Mademoiselle

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By Rhonda Garelick

I picked this up in the gift shop at the Boston Museum of Art. Like my girl-power book last year about Julia Morgan, Coco Chanel and her unfathomable professional success in a time when women didn’t have the endless opportunities we do today to excel in the professional world, made me want to learn more about her. This book drags a bit in its minutiae about her many romances but basically does a good job telling the story of this incredibly talented woman. Like everyone, she had some pretty big character flaws and made some poor business and life decisions, but what I appreciated most were her resilience, her drive, her beautiful, creative genius and her confidence. She was the product of abject poverty, orphanages, parental death and abandonment, and a world shattered by war yet amidst and despite all that adversity, she created Chanel! Stories like hers always make me wonder how much the hurdles in life can actually encourage and inspire and fuel creative and business and overall personal success with the right outlook. You can either drone on and on about all the challenges in your life and make excuses or you can just be determined to overcome them. Both Coco and Julia prove that much success can result from choosing the latter. I think our society could do with a little more determined, positive attitude and a lot less woe-is-me; I am so oppressed! More Coco and Julia and fewer whiny college students demanding “safe spaces”.

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