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For decades after her death in 1971, the scandalous rumours that French fashion icon Coco Chanel had been a Nazi collaborator during the wartime Occupation of Paris remained just whispers in quiet corners.
She's a symbol for fashion and feminism, and she designed the little black dress. But hanging next to it in her closet were some big skeletons, too.
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How Coco Chanel spent her exile in Switzerland Coco Chanel's grave in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausanne Keystone / Laurent Gillieron French fashion designer, perfumer and Nazi agent Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who died exactly 50 years ago, is buried in Lausanne. After the war she moved to Switzerland to escape criminal charges of collaboration, spending around ten years by Lake Geneva. This content was published on January 10, 2021 - 12:00 January 10, 2021 - 12:00 Thomas Stephens Born in London, Thomas was a journalist at The Independent before moving to Bern in 2005. He speaks three off...
Coco Chanel: How the fashion designer’s legacy lives on 50 years after her death Emily Cope © Provided by The Independent When Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel died in her Ritz hotel suite on 10 January 1971, the world mourned the loss of one of its greatest fashion designers. While she remains one of the most formative couturiers of the century – her fashion empire lives on in her namesake brand – her life was just as controversial as it was stylish. Raised in a French orphanage before moving to Paris in 1908, Chanel soon became synonymous with a new style of dressing that...