Coco Chanel, widely considered to be one of the greatest designers in history, led secret double life as a spy for the Nazis in WWII.
The first British exhibition dedicated to the French pioneer of chic will not gloss over her collaborationist activities
Coco Chanel's double life as Nazi spy to be woven into V&A exhibition
Oh, no! Coco Chanel – was a Nazi spy?
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Coco Chanel, French Resistance, Nazis, Nazis in Paris, Nazis in France, WWII, Rue Cambon, Paris, Winston Churchill,. Several weeks after the liberation of Paris, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel was arrested by members of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior—resistance fighters during latter stages of the war) and taken to the Free French Purge Committee headquarters. After two hours of questioning, Chanel was released. She would later tell her maid that she was […]
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Throughout her life Coco Chanel lied about her upbringing. Judithe Little, author of The Chanel Sisters (Graydon House, 2020), had always imagined Coco as “a solitary figure wreathed in strands of pearls,” but as she researched the fashion icon’s life, she quickly found there was much to learn— starting with the fact that Coco, the […]
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