Stop Idolizing Coco Chanel : a shocking history of theft

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  @NicoleRudolph · 2 years ago · pinned

  Adding in that yes, Chanel is still being idolized today. There are museum exhibits that opened in the last few years, new movies/series that include her, and so much more. Just last September someone came out with documents attempting to prove she was part of the French Resistance (which were questionable at best: <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231127-historian-debunks-claims-that-coco-chanel-served-in-the-french-resistance">https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231127-historian-debunks-claims-that-coco-chanel-served-in-the-french-resistance</a> ). I&apos;m not doing this video to &quot;destroy a woman who worked hard&quot;. This is to stop glorifying one that took the credit from those that did. The House of Premet is largely unknown, but maybe if they were properly credited with 1920s style, jersey knit, or the LBD that would be a familiar name instead. We can&apos;t just separate art from artist (even if it was her art)- the willingness to lie to get ahead, actively harming others in the process, is buried in her work.

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  @anarey-oktay2683 · 2 years ago

  My French teacher grew up in a village in the north of France after the war. She remembered the women in the village who hooked up with German soldiers during the war had their heads shaved as a sign of their collaboration. As a mature woman, was still bitter that, “…not a hair of Coco Chanel’s head was touched.”

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  @hannayoung9657 · 2 years ago

  My gran &nbsp;and few other poor ladies &nbsp;got their stuff stolen by a rich &nbsp;&quot; textile artist&quot;, &nbsp;well at &nbsp;age &nbsp;85 my gran got her revenge. &nbsp;There was big textile expo about this woman and my gran knew that all the ladies had &nbsp;hidden their &nbsp;initials &nbsp;in their original works and told the guide &nbsp;who made what and showed &nbsp;it, &nbsp; &nbsp;next week the expo was shut down and instead there was one about &nbsp;home textiles.

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  @RubmaLione · 10 months ago

  The fact that she was a huge Nazi and staunchly anti-worker are enough reasons to despise her as a person. &nbsp;We see the “Chanel” coffee table books in every luxury hotel and celebrity mansion, and yet none of these people know that she was such a horrid person AND most of her designs are considered ugly by today’s standards.

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  @sctpoch · 2 years ago

  One of the most striking things I&apos;ve ever read about Coco Chanel is that (paraphrasing) she was anti-Semitic to a degree that was considered unseemly even by the standards of 1930s Europe. Which is astounding when you really think about it.

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  @roblemohamed9756 · 1 year ago

  This is honestly so upsetting, thank you for the very informative video, I used to look up to her channel as an influential figure in the fashion industry, having just started my fashion schooling and hearing so many good things about her, it&apos;s shocking to realize it&apos;s all a brainwash. The fact that she laid off 300 women, called them idiots, ridiculed them by suggesting they buy her business, and even sat down with Nazi leaders to try and reclaim her perfume company knowing it had been sold to Jews and that those individuals could lose their lives is beyond disturbing. It truly shows the kind of cruel person she was

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  @impish750 · 2 years ago

  Thank you so much for this. I&apos;m a fashion student in university and it really frustrates me to see how many of her unsubstantiated claims are taught as if they were fact. Whenever she&apos;s brought up in our curriculum she&apos;s talked about as if she singlehandedly invented modern fashion (and her connections to the nazis are barely brushed over). I really appreciate that you did so much research and debunked a lot of those myths.

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  @beckstheimpatient4135 · 2 years ago

  She was the OG problematic and narcissistic influencer.

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  @Bosquecito_de_Laureles · 2 years ago

  I’d like to know more about Elsa Schiaparelli. Her designs are just so original and still very much wearable. She is a truly creative designer.

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  @juliannehannes11 · 10 months ago

  I have a theory that she only became a household name in fashion because he name was simple and easier to recall and Jackie Kenedy was wearing her dress on the assasination

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  @TJ10891 · 2 years ago

  I noticed rich people often have issues with character. Wealthy in money but dirt poor in personal moral and ethics

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  @AM-xo7lr · 2 years ago

  I once saw footage of Coco Chanel appearing on a French talk show, where she was bombastic, egotistical and contrary. I particularly remember her aggressive diatribe against the suggestion that a woman could hold her own without wearing perfume. She was born in a time and place when only a man could be regarded as truly successful, accomplished or exceptional and therefore regarded herself as an honorary man, just like other narcissistic self creators who imagined they had escaped or transcended their own sex, like Ayn Rand. She certainly didn&apos;t feel any affinity for other women, who were at best, competition.

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