During World War II, Did Coco Chanel Work With Nazis? New Film Says Designer Used German Laws to Boost Business

The fashion designer aided in undercover missions for Abwehr during World War II.

Coco Chanel's Secret Life as a Nazi Agent

When Coco Chanel died in her suite at the Ritz in Paris 50 years ago this week, the world mourned the greatest fashion designer of the century. What no one mentioned was that Chanel had spent the Second World War in the luxury hotel with her German officer lover working as a spy for both German military intelligence and the SS.

Strong whiff of wartime scandal clings to Coco Chanel

French historians unveil WWII secret services' archives

LONDON (AP) — The little black dress. The tweed dress suit. The perfume simply known as No. 5. Those instantly-recognizable fashion classics — and many more lesser known creations by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel — are celebrated in a major new exhibition at London’s V&A Museum dedicated to the life and work of the famed French […]

The legend lives on: New exhibition devoted to Chanel's life and work opens at London's V&A Museum – WWLP

During World War II, Did Coco Chanel Work With Nazis? New Film Says Designer Used German Laws to Boost Business

During the war, Chanel showed how to create beauty from the barest of materials. But that was not the only reason she woke up famous in 1919

Coco Chanel: Flashback to World War I

But a rep for the Chanel fashion house denies the accusations in Hal Vaughan's "Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War."

Coco Chanel Biography Claims She Was a Nazi Spy – The Hollywood Reporter

It has long been known that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel—the legendary French designer whose fashion empire bears her name—was, during the Second World …

The Exchange: Coco Chanel and the Nazi Party

Friday essay: Chanel's complex legacy

Coco Chanel was Definitely a Nazi

Catherine Dior, the sister of Christian Dior, was a crucial figure of the French Resistance. Clémence Michallon speaks to author Justine Picardie, whose new book provides an in-depth look at Catherine’s life and legacy

The incredible story of the real Miss Dior

A major retrospective opens in London this weekend into "Coco" Chanel, exploring her 60-year career that transformed women's wardrobes, and with new revelations about her troubled wartime past.

London's V&A hosts new Chanel exhibition