Thanks for speaking up ladies. I teach Fashion History and my students are
shocked to hear this, but I think we are obliged to tell them. Heck, most of
them have no idea about what happened in WWII or even the Holocaust. Sad.
They look at History like they view Reality TV.
Monica
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And she also took advantage of the anti-semitism to throw her partner/backer
for Chanel No. 5 under the bus and take total control. I could sort of
accept her collaboration to save her relatives, which seems to be how it
started, but she went way beyond that to profit by it and keep living the
good life.
Ann Wass
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Sent: Sun, Aug 21, 2011 1:44 pm
Subject: [h-cost] Review of new biography of Chanel
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/RV951KK5JF.DTL
If this link does not work for you, go to www.sfgate.com and search for "the
scent of a collaborator."
This book apparently illuminates what I've long disliked about Chanel. I
don't mind her having been a kept mistress, but she was an active Nazi
collaborator and espionage agent, and that I really do mind. No quantity of
color pictures and gush about her creations can change that for me.
Fran
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