She expanded Chanel's Luxe collection of elite offerings, which includes items like alligator bags, embroidered jackets, and top-of-the-line perfumes (named, rather appropriately, "Les Exclusifs").

Their numbers had been destroyed by man’s hatred and the handbag trade.

It was a thin clutch, fashioned from very glossy, dark chocolate-coloured crocodile skin, about the size of three passports lined up in a row.