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Coco Chanel: Fashion Designer, Nazi Informant

Everyone knows of Coco Chanel as a fashion icon and style pioneer. She is justly respected for her vision, brilliance, and the way she changed the world of fashion. Yet, hardly anyone talks about the other side of the mirror, the Chanel who was the epitome of a cold opportunist, and an amoral, ethically challenged…

Coco Chanel: Nazi Collaborator & Spy

The fashion designer Coco Chanel spent WWII collaborating with the Nazis as a new book details, but it doesn’t take away from her fabulous life.

Coco Chanel's Secret Nazi History': New Book by Hal Vaugh Reveals

Previously unseen documents to go on display at V&A alongside evidence of her collusion with Nazis

Coco Chanel exhibition reveals fashion designer was part of French

That’s quite a statement isn’t it? You may have heard rumblings about this back in August 2011 when author Hal Vaughan released his book Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War.  But I don’t think we’ve really heard enough about it. I don’t really think we got a firm grip on the fact that today’s most…

Coco Chanel was Definitely a Nazi

A new exhibition at London’s V&A museum features some 200 pieces from the V&A’s collection, the Palais Galliera fashion museum in Paris and the heritage collections of the Chanel itself.

Coco Chanel's fashion legacy lives on. A new exhibition examines

In Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie peels away the layers …

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie

Chanel had a complicated relationship with Jews — until Karl

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

Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent - Case - Faculty

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen

New Book 'Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War' Reveals Chanel Was an Active Member of the Abwehr Nazi Military Intelligence.

Coco Chanel: Designer, Style Icon - and Nazi? - Jewish World

Lagerfeld made the brand so iconic and inclusive that it was easy to forget everything that was problematic about Chanel herself, writes a fashion historian.

How Karl Lagerfeld cleansed Chanel of its anti-Semitic, Nazi past