“Collaborator” is honestly too kind a word for Coco Chanel, aka Abwehr Agent F-7124 Codename “Westminster”, who was literally an undercover operative of the Nazi Party. The fact that she is still lauded as some girlboss heroine in 2020 is deranged. https://twitter.com/stefwaterstbook/status/1275218134035763201

The descendants of the Jewish business partners she tried to destroy own her brand now, fwiw, so no need to torch your Chanel products. But the woman herself was despicable, evaded punishment only because she was friends with Churchill, and should be remembered only as Nazi scum.

The only book about Coco Chanel anyone needs to read is the 2011 nonfiction title SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY by Hal Vaughan. He uncovered every last one of her nasty secrets. Meticulously researched and unsparing.

Feels like I do this thread once a year because someone is invariably producing some new biopic or picture book or romcom or whatever the fuck about Coco Chanel and her glamorous, fashionable, ~feminist life. There is absolutely no excuse for this continued hero worship.