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Byline: Mark Holgate
Beneath the stack of bags-Prada, Chanel, Oscar de la Renta-that are strung, as if in a souk, on the Indian carved wooden screen that stands in Coco Brandolini's bedroom, there is a hidden gem. It's vintage Yves Saint Laurent, of probable seventies origins, in an impossibly soft tan leather, with a chunky silver clasp and a chain shoulder strap. It's so chic, so anonymous, it so perfectly embodies everything that's unquestionably right for this summer, that you'd think she wouldn't be carrying anything else right now. But when it comes to Coco Brandolini-indeed, to any of the Brandolini clan of illustrious, imaginative, and irrepressible ...