(CBS/AP) PARIS - A new book alleges iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel was an anti-Semite and a Nazi spy. "Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret Wars," by Paris-based American ...

A new book sheds light on the life outside of art and fashion that influential designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel led. In Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, biographer Lisa Chaney wrote that Chanel had ...

Unlike any other figure in fashion history, Coco Chanel continues to hold a fascination decades after her death. An orphan who scaled the heights of French haute couture, she introduced women to ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

PARIS — Coco Chanel: a fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic — and a Nazi spy? A new book by an American historian living in Paris suggests that Chanel not only had a ...

In 1933, Jean Cocteau drew a portrait of his close friend Coco Chanel. Though the figure is faceless, the subject is instantly recognizable by her slim figure, cropped hair and iconic strings of ...

PARIS – Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a Nazi spy?

Countless books and films have told all or some fraction of how Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel came to dominate and transform the fashion industry. Followers of fashion have been regaled with tales of her ...

Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and … a Nazi spy? A new ...

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