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COCO & DIOR AT THE "V&A" Museum ...

  THE EMPEROR  HAS NO CLOTHES !!! Or, Coco Chanel & Christian Dior  Spend a Night at the Museum A Gloriously Camp, Occasionally Scandalous, thoroughly Mischievous adventure in Fashion, Fame, Fortune & the Extraordinary business of getting Dressed. A fictional encounter between two very real fashion legends. Chapter One: Two French Ghosts &  A Very British Fog London. November. 11:47 p.m. The sort of November night that makes even the pigeons consider emigrating. A thick fog had descended upon  South Kensington, wrapping the elegant Victorian buildings in a grey blanket so dense that the street lamps appeared to be illuminating nothing more substantial than boiled cabbage. Outside the Victoria and Albert Museum,  a black Rolls-Royce materialized from the mist. It stopped. Its rear passenger door opened. Out stepped a small, slender woman wearing a perfectly tailored black suit, a string of pearls, a neat little hat and an expression suggesting th...