HEY TEAM. Let’s not put “inspirational” coco chanel quotes on things. she was literally a nazi. like i don’t give a fuck what she said about being a woman or an individual or whatever. i promise you there are quotes from other people that can get the same point across. People who didn’t directly get incredibly rich off nazi seizure of jewish owned businesses and property. People who weren’t literally NAZI SPIES AND PAID AGENTS OF THE SS like coco chanel was. Remember when you put “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. - Coco Chanel” on some post that what and who Coco Chanel wanted to be was Abwehr Agent 7124, code name “Westminster"
oh, here’s an article with more info about coco chanel’s history and antisemitism and stuff. it’s a bit long, but like, if you’re curious or want receipts.
Coco Chanel was a collaborator, the most despicable thing that anyone could choose to be in Nazi-occupied France, and it’s revolting that people brush over that. There was a reason she fucked off to Switzerland after the war and didn’t re-enter fashion until she was 70, and it’s very telling that the British and Americans embraced her comeback but the French didn’t. That should reflect very badly on English and American people, tbh…
I would, however, like to mention that the company Chanel S.A. is owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, the nephews of Chanel’s Jewish business partner, whose share she tried to convince the Nazis to seize for her. (He’d already sold the company to a Gentile friend and gotten the hell out of France, so that came to nothing. He later won control of her name on the product in court.)
So buy their lipstick with a clear conscience. If you can afford it.
Thank you for adding this! I bring that up all the time, but sometimes feel like I’m the only one.
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