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CBE. Arthur Edward Capel CBE (December 1881 – 22 December 1919), known as Boy Capel, was an English polo player, possibly best-remembered for being a lover and muse of fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Gabrielle Bonheur " Coco " Chanel ( / ʃəˈnɛl / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) [ 2] was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post- World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the ...
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is based on the 2002 fictional novel Coco and Igor by Chris Greenhalgh and traces a rumoured affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920, the year that Chanel No. 5 was created. Greenhalgh also wrote the screenplay for the film. Chanel and its former chief designer Karl Lagerfeld lent their ...
Box office. $50.8 million [2] Coco Before Chanel ( French: Coco avant Chanel) is a 2009 biographical drama film directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine. The film stars Audrey Tautou and details the early life of French fashion designer Coco Chanel . The film premiered in Paris on 6 April 2009 and was released in France and Belgium on 22 April ...
Balsan introduced her to Paris society, including Englishman Arthur "Boy" Capel who later became Chanel's lover, and who helped Chanel to finance her early fashion business. His brother, Jacques Balsan, married Consuelo Vanderbilt, the former Duchess of Marlborough.
The portrait was painted in oil on canvas around 1641 and is 63 inches (160 cm) by 102 inches (260 cm). It shows Arthur Capel, his wife, Elizabeth Morrison and their children, Mary, Henry, Charles, Elizabeth and Arthur. In the background is the garden at Little Haddon. It is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. [1]
Youth. Arthur Capel, 1st Earl of Essex and his wife Elizabeth, Countess of Essex, by studio of Peter Lely. In June 1648, then a sickly boy of sixteen, he was taken by Lord Fairfax 's soldiers from Hadham to Colchester in Essex, which town his father was defending, and was carried every day around the works with the hope of inducing Lord Capell ...
Capell is buried in the Essex Chapel at St Mary's Parish Church, Watford. The 6th Earl enjoyed a number of philanthropic and leisure pursuits and took a keen interest in a wide range of subjects. In the 1860s, he developed an enthusiasm for the new game of croquet. The gardens of Cassiobury House, the Capell family seat in Watford ...