Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel used Nazi laws to attempt to regain control of her company in the Second World War Clearly discontent with the arrangement, Coco Chanel had spent years trying to regain ...

Quite simply, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was, in the words of an academic paper from Harvard, a “Nazi agent”. Specifically, she dobbed in her Jewish business partners to the Nazis to try and ...

A group of experts consider the accessories from the past 100 years that changed how we carry our things — and ourselves.

The latter sparked controversy due to founder and French designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel's historical connections to Nazi collaborators in the Second World War. The story goes that she turned to ...

Day, the world has had a chance to honor the Allied troops who invaded Normandy in 1944 in the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history. It ...