PARIS (AP) -- Coco Chanel: A fashion icon whose name has become shorthand for timeless French chic, a shrewd businesswoman who overcame a childhood of poverty to build a luxury supernova and ... a ...

Every 30 seconds, someone somewhere in the world buys a bottle of Chanel No. 5, the French government declared in 2006, a claim that has often been repeated. Whether it’s still true, or if it ever was ...

But a rep for the Chanel fashion house denies the accusations in Hal Vaughan's "Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War." By THR Staff Gabrielle Chanel (1883 - 1971) known as Coco, the ...

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PARIS (AP) -- A new book alleges that iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel was an anti-Semite and a Nazi spy. 'Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret Wars,' by American historian Hal ...

Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War, by Hal Vaughan, expands on long-standing evidence that the iconic designer had a double life and was the lover of a spy, Baron Hans Gunther von ...