Coco Chanel posed nude for anti-Semitic caricature

In brightness, Jennifer Wright has a fascinating overview of the activities of Coco Chanel in support of National Socialism and Fascism before. During and after the Second World War Fascinating, but also poignant. And now, with more anti-Semitic cartoons. Prada Bags On Sale This pattern is all pretty well known to anyone familiar with the history of the life of Coco Chanel - and especially the wartime activities of the designer and Nazi sympathies Hal Vaughan excellent biography 2011 were investigated, Sleeping With The Enemy: The secret war of Coco Chanel . But it is always interesting to see the details of Chanel collaboration with the Nazis - and their work as a spy for the occupants - posted in chronological order. Chanel conversion to fascism began in 1930, when she began a relationship with French illustrator Paul Iribe and anti-Semitic. Revive Chanel funded in 1933, the magazine The Witness Iribe, the exact Wright describes as "said a violent, ultra-nationalist publication that France was destroyed from the Jews." In a program, even a naked Iribe Chanel - to personalize determined France - in the arms of Adolf Hitler collusion rocked French Jews while. Hitler alone could to save France from the great existential threat of international Jewry. Coco Chanel was apparently on board this message. Click to enlarge. Iribe began after the death and the war, there were more fans of Nazis, and during the occupation of Paris, lived famous Chanel at the Ritz and had dinner with Hermann G? Ring and Joseph Goebbels. She spied for the Nazis and tried to use the new Nazi laws, to wrest control of the Chanel perfume profit of its owners, the Wertheimer family French Jewish. (It ultimately failed because unnoticed had his Wertheimer already handed over control of their business interests to a French agent Christian, Felix Amiot, before fleeing Paris. Amiot, the company returned to the war Wertheimer and they Chanel yet.) It may seem a little absurd to expect to be a designer, just because you like his work - Wright compares "wait love the cows, because you love burgers" - but the depth and persistence Chanel fascism, even after all these years is still quite stunning .