A major retrospective opens in London this weekend into "Coco" Chanel, exploring her 60-year career that transformed women's wardrobes, and with new revelations about her troubled wartime past.
When Coco Chanel died in her suite at the Ritz in Paris 50 years ago this week, the world mourned the greatest fashion designer of the century. What no one mentioned was that Chanel had spent the Second World War in the luxury hotel with her German officer lover working as a spy for both German military intelligence and the SS.
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Strong whiff of wartime scandal clings to Coco Chanel - Global Times
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