Interview: Isabel Fiemeyer, fashion historian
"Coco Chanel is a feminist icon, a pioneer in freeing women's bodies and a participant in women's emancipation. She is an independent woman who created a fashion house with her own strength, she owed nothing to anyone. She came from a poor milieu, experienced abandonment and betrayal, was often in mourning and humiliated. For all these reasons, she remains an important figure for all women."