The name Coco Chanel is associated with the little black dress, trademark suits, and Chanel No. 5 perfume. When she proposed that every woman needed a little black dress, sales went through the roof. Then, she created her trademark perfume which remains one of the best-selling scents to this day. Chanel single-handedly revolutionized the fashion industry, and her name became synonymous with impeccable fashion sense.
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But not too long ago, it came to light that the name Coco Chanel is also connected to other things –dark things. As it turns out, Chanel has quite a sinister past, which has, for some people, completely tainted the name of the fashion queen. Declassified French government documents have exposed Chanel’s covert work for German* military intelligence during World War II.