Pablo Picasso and Gabrielle Chanel collaborated professionally on two occasions, both with Jean Cocteau: on Antigone (1922) and on Sergei Diaghilev's Russian ballet Le Train Bleu (1924). They met around the spring of 1917, probably through Cocteau himself or Misia Sert. The designer established a long and lasting friendship with both that would introduce her to the circle of the Spanish painter. From then on, Chanel would frequent the Picasso couple, coinciding with the artist's active participation in the Russian ballets. The creator herself became closely related to the artistic and intellectual world of Paris at the time, to the point of stating: “it is the artists who have taught me rigor.”
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