Another win for the culture
The most revolutionary pro black artist of all time shilling for a European luxury brand (founded by a racist) that 99 percent of people from his (old) neighborhood can’t afford
Haven’t seen him in a black owned fashion outfit yet
I’m just waiting for the spin from the fans like when he wore a purse in Harper’s Bazaar while giving them an interview that he still won’t give to black media
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en.wikipedia.org
During the
Second World War (1939–45), Coco Chanel closed shop at Maison Chanel – leaving only jewellery and
parfumerie for sale – and moved to the
Hôtel Ritz Paris, where she lived with her boyfriend, Hans Günther von Dincklage, a Nazi intelligence officer. Upon conquering France in June 1940, the Nazis established a Parisian occupation-headquarters in the
Hôtel Meurice, on the
Rue de Rivoli, opposite the
Louvre Museum, and just around the corner from the fashionable Maison Chanel S.A., at 31 Rue Cambon.
Meanwhile, because of the Nazi occupation's official anti-Semitism, Pierre Wertheimer and family, had fled France to the U.S., in mid-1940. Later, in 1941, Coco Chanel attempted to assume business control of Parfums Chanel but was thwarted by an administrative
delegation that disallowed her sole disposition of the
parfumerie. Having foreseen the Nazi occupation policy of the seizure-and-expropriation to Germany of Jewish business and assets in France, Pierre Wertheimer, the majority partner, had earlier, in May 1940, designated
Felix Amiot, a Christian French industrialist, as the "
Aryan" proxy whose legal control of the Parfums Chanel business proved politically acceptable to the Nazis, who then allowed the perfume company to continue as an operating business.
Occupied France abounded with rumours that Coco Chanel was a Nazi
collaborator; her clandestine identity was secret agent 7124 of the
Abwehr, code-named "Westminster". As such, by order of General
Walter Schellenberg, of the
Sicherheitsdienst, Chanel was despatched to London on a mission to communicate to British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill the particulars of a "separate peace" plan proposed by
Reichsführer-SSHeinrich Himmler, who sought to avoid surrendering to the
Red Army of the Soviet Russians.
At War's end, upon the
Allied liberation of France, Chanel was arrested for having collaborated with the Nazis. In September 1944, the
Free French Purge Committee, the
épuration, summoned Chanel for interrogation about her collaborationism, yet, without documentary evidence of or witnesses to her collaboration with the Nazis, and because of Churchill's secret intervention in her behalf, the
épuration released Coco Chanel from arrest as a traitor to France. Despite having been freed by the political grace of Churchill, the strength of the rumours of Chanel's Nazi collaboration had made it impossible for her to remain in France; so Coco Chanel and her German lover, Hans Günther von Dincklage, went into an eight-year exile to
Switzerland.