Coco Chanel had a code of motifs she integrated into her designs, each bearing personal significance. The story goes she was given her first bouquet of camellias by her lover and muse Boy Capel. Her favourite flower became omnipresent throughout her collections.
She was superstitious and surrounded herself with lucky talismans. It is said, for example, that she kept a small bundle of wheatsheaf, a symbol of prosperity and abundance, in her private quarters at the Ritz Paris as well as in each room of her apartment at 31 Rue Cambon. Both the wheatsheaf and the four-leaf clover appear throughout her collections like lucky charms, along with the lion — a reference to her zodiac sign, Leo.
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