Coco Chanel · every age
What was Coco Chanel doing at 57?
Orphanage seamstress; remade fashion at 30 and again at 70
- May 5, 1941
Tried to seize the perfume business under anti-Jewish laws
She wrote to the Vichy administrator of Jewish assets. The Wertheimers had already moved control to a French Christian associate in 1940.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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