The problem with her is not the fact that she was a Nazi spy the fact is that people keep trying to make excuses for what she did and people will still buy her clothing even though they know that she was up to some bad stuff that's one of the major problem with the world today people just don't have any character
The fuck does buying her clothing have to do with it?? it’s a nice design and she’s dead Chanel is no longer related to Nazis. You can be a terrible person and yet you literally defined an era of fashion ppl dont buy it cause they have the same belief.
Putting the fascist back into faschion Like many living along the riveria --she also sacked 40,000 workers in Paris just before the Germans stormed Paris. Talented and incredibly business savvy- but seriously disturbing lack of humanistic principles
You do get that the brand isn’t owned by even her estate now, right? It’s literally just a name. If you want to boycott any and all businesses involved with the Holocaust during WWII, you’re going to find yourself changing many aspects of your daily life because the connections go very deep and worldwide. I published a law review article on the specific subject-litigating the Holocaust (I’m an attorney by training and a judge in my current employment). Let’s just say you wouldn’t be able to use a bank, get a loan, shop for food, clothing or appliances and pretty much all foreign cars would be off limits as well. So before you get on your high horse of smug, self-righteous indignation and pronounce anyone buying products from the Chanel brand as lacking in values and principles, you need to better educate yourself. You should never make ignorant, blanket statements like you did. I’m Jewish and own numerous Chanel products, bags and clothing and yet my character remains in tact. My morals and principles are just fine in fact, but thanks so much for your “concern.” I’ve dedicated my life to serving my country in the military for the last 25 years while raising 4 children with an active duty spouse as well, was raised in two different faiths and stayed observant in both (it’s a lot of church), I volunteer my legal services to homeless veterans monthly, work at my local animal rescue 2 days/week and am a foster parent for my city, accepting emergency child placements, children who arrive in the middle of the night or to keep siblings together when. So I’m fairly certain my morals and principals are likely better than acceptable and above board when compared to the average Joe. But again, your wholly uninformed judgment on a subject you clearly know nothing about is noted🙄
@@fashiondiva6972 thank you for being a voice of reason. Times change. Soon we will be 100 years away from World War 2 and companies like Chanel, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, continue. I hate it when fools try to virtue signal by attempting to apply modern sensibilities to people of the past. Chanel is long gone, she had no heirs even....move on with your lives.
I JUST FOUND OUT about this today. I never knew about this. At the same time, I am not into fashion and chanel stuff. I happen to be watching a series about the occupation of France. And the narrator talked about how people survived by collaborating with the Nazis, but at the same time some people like Coco Chanel conspired with the Nazis and did need to for survival. She just did it willingly.
Such an important video for disclosing who this woman really was. Yes she as a woman revolutionary for her time, but it can never excuse her actions. She shouldn’t get a “pass” because of the time, or because she was a important woman in a society industrialized by men. I will never purchase another Chanel product because of the person it’s tied to.
I had no idea. My only knowledge of her past was that she famously sought out rich men to fund her lifestyle and businesses. Not exactly the feminist icon I was lead to believe she was painted as. "Coming from nothing" isn't the same as "using your feminine whiles to snag money from multiple dumb rich dudes to secure your standing in life." Nice job if you can get it, but not without recognizing this sidenote.
In the beginning a lot of people were pro Nazi. Even some of the royal family. They were of german descent. Look how long it took the usa to get involved.
My mother complained my father's family was prejudice. Shortly after, I found that she was the same. Jewish people can also be prejudice. I don't think we should judge anyone. Let's leave that up to God.
@@trusttheprocess2833 I dont mean that. Of course we all die alone. I mean that she was lonely and didn’t have many people around. Not something i’d ever want to go through.
@@jodziebear665 she looks happy and even told her maid that this is how you die,she looks happy and satisfied,she have friends,she experienced hollywood life,she have business,I think she is happy with her life.
Certainly fierce enough to be a sympathizing and participating antisemite! I wonder how fierce the last words and screams of all the people she helped put in the gas chambers during the holocaust were.
@Meme Page You missed the point. Those rumors about her swirled while she was alive. The hypocrisy comes from her being homophobic althewhile being accused of being of that behavior herself. Was she homophobic because of the slanderous rumors or was it because she wanted her own behavior not to be further scrutinized? Either way, you're right. We'll never know and it ultimately doesn't matter in regards to her talents.
@@m.woodsrobinson9244 Interesting. Just a side note, that may also have been something that was concocted and perpetuated by men in her era. That was a common thing done to women with ambition in that era as a way of holding her down. It could be true, but also could've been a way to "keep her in her place." The same has been said about Katherine Hepburn for the same reasons yet many of her biographers debate her sexuality to this day.
Oh come on so we're all going to get mad at clothes the girl isn't even alive anymore it isn't like she's smiling down from heaven or whatever she's in that her business is still being run it doesn't matter there just clothes that she didn't even make if we want revenge than trash her reputation it's useless to stop buying clothes she didn't even make. Oh did I mention the people running the business now are Jewish. So all your really doing is ruining another families life in the name of revenge on a dead person.
I suspect that working with Nazi’s was her Survival Strategy! She was a smart business woman, and fiercely independent! Her talent shinned brighter than her skeletons in the closet!
Yes, I hope you pray the world, usa, are holy and pure and repent; all governments are evil, and much of business and banking, are too. God allows us to have evil leaders, because we are an evil people. REPENT, EVERYONE. ME TOO.
@Melanie Jarrett I understand, and yes many wicked and evil mechanisms in this system of things, and only God's new heavens and earth will bring peace upon the earth. I was referring to the the last sentence Cassie made. My initial comment was about awareness in general, "the more we know." Not necessarily a religious conversation, but I guess I can see how the two intermixed. Just the same spammed comment seemed madame ....
she had close connnections to Churchill and spent time with him at her scottish mansion and may have beeen a secret double agent doing his bidding. Espionage is never striaghtforward.
Despite knowing these terrible facts about Coco Chanel I'll still wear the little black dress because it suits me, But it won't be any of her dresses or perfumes. Ahh...the dark side to fashion.
She was extremely intelligent, fantastic designer, Nazi spy, slept around like nobody's business, wasn't remotely attractive but the men loved her because of her straight forward in your face personality. She was a Lady and she was a Tramp. She was everything a lot of woman only wish they could be. Love her or hate her. She was CoCo Chanel and never apologized for it.
She refused to give up her well earned fortune to the nazis. At the worst, she was a double agent, providing info. to those in opposition to the nazi regime. Pre WWII, the French shunned her under false pretenses so she lived in Switzerland for several years while managing her House in France. Whilst this vid has some accuracy it is incomplete and rife with insults.
Even if this is true, not good enough. As long as the brand has her name, it’s a disgrace to the fashion industry. It’s about what the brand represents, and this is obviously a bad look and smell.
@@happytheory4836 Some people just can't leave statues alone. All past behavior must be contextualized within the sensibilities of your contemporary enculturation. If not you will cancel them. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, probably even Abraham Lincoln among them. What I would find immensely interesting is how YOU would have behaved as a contemporary to those you try to cancel today.
Even though the photos are black n white no ones life is that way. We can not continue to judge someone who lived in very different times as if they have all the knowledge we have about the subject. Chanel decorated a country house for Churchill in the 50s. It still stands decaying today.
The French weren’t Nazis. All the Germans weren’t Nazis unless she was a friend of yours, you don’t know everything about her life at that time. That is my point. It is quite easy this many years out to see things as black or white, good or evil when they are not that way.
@@Bdhstl95 I suppose you are right to an extent. Although it is true we do not know for certain and have limited information I remain sceptical of her ties to the Nazis. You make a good point and it has changed my judgement a bit.
I heard that she thought she could get them to let her brother go. They had him.I don't know how or why. I 'm not excusing her, but just saying that it might not have been just to save her business.
Yea. I had herd years ago about her troubling past. But she should not have been given a free pass. Folks who participate in anti Simatism get cought and are made to pay. That gives those sort absolute permission to keep in doing it. But yes. I had herd about it
quite a bit of judgement of CoCo Chanel on this feed, quite disturbing- CoCo Chanel will be remembered as an iconic woman of changing womens fashion for the better.
