![STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/09/26/8e5f41d2-ddd5-11e9-94c8-f27aa1da2f45_image_hires_103347.jpg)
STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post
![TIL that Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, founder of the Chanel fashion brand, once had as lover the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov of Russia, know as one of the murderers of Rasputin : TIL that Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, founder of the Chanel fashion brand, once had as lover the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov of Russia, know as one of the murderers of Rasputin :](https://external-preview.redd.it/TSF72CEaX-VG3z9ETQo9NdgclrB3oBlzmm1MOJBu4XY.jpg?auto=webp&s=9812e7295ada5d5bdfb043f403775d1f0cdb533d)
TIL that Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, founder of the Chanel fashion brand, once had as lover the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov of Russia, know as one of the murderers of Rasputin :
![CHANEL on Twitter: "Ernest Beaux, the creator of #ChanelN5, was first introduced to Mademoiselle by her lover, the Grand Duke Dmitri http://t.co/OSc9trzJ" / Twitter CHANEL on Twitter: "Ernest Beaux, the creator of #ChanelN5, was first introduced to Mademoiselle by her lover, the Grand Duke Dmitri http://t.co/OSc9trzJ" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A1FQXvnCcAA4flo.jpg:large)
CHANEL on Twitter: "Ernest Beaux, the creator of #ChanelN5, was first introduced to Mademoiselle by her lover, the Grand Duke Dmitri http://t.co/OSc9trzJ" / Twitter
![STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post](https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/methode/2019/09/26/d9306254-ddd5-11e9-94c8-f27aa1da2f45_972x_103347.jpg)
STYLE Edit: How Coco Chanel's style changed after her intense love affair with a Russian grand duke | South China Morning Post
![Inspired by Imperial Russia, Chanel's New Jewelry Collection Recalls the Young Coco Chanel's Affair With a Romanov Duke Inspired by Imperial Russia, Chanel's New Jewelry Collection Recalls the Young Coco Chanel's Affair With a Romanov Duke](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2019/07/Dmitri-Pavlovich-02-685x1024.jpg)