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| The Rules of the Game |
Jean Renoir (son of Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir) asked Chanel to create the costumes for this film after the box office success of his classic
La Grande Illusion.
Chanel's designs expressed to perfection a scathing image of chateau life in 1930s France.
Upon its release in France in 1939 - after Czechoslovakia's surrender to Hitler - the film was banned by the military censors who deemed it too demoralising. It is now, however, considered a timeless representation of a vanishing way of life.
