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Gala explained that she didn't have to follow the instructions left by her mother, Lilli. In fact, she decided to improve on them. Faced with Lilli's naked corpse, Gala decided-what else could she do? -to venerate the legend. Little by little she dressed her. She covered the rigid body in zebra-print fabrics and placed furs sewn together over her corpse, which remained as proof of Lilli Bianchi's art even as it rotted away. She covered her with a red-fox cape, and when the undertaker tried to cover Lilli's bald head with a white wig, Gala stopped him.
"She wanted us to bury her looking elegant," the undertaker insisted.