Previously unseen documents to go on display at V&A alongside evidence of her collusion with Nazis
has unearthed evidence that the fashion designer was a documented member of the French resistance. The previously unseen documents will go on display, along with contradictory evidence that she operated as a Nazi agent.
Previously unseen documents highlight the name “Gabrielle AKA Coco Chanel” on a list of 400,000 people whose part in the resistance is backed up by official records. “We have verification from the French government, including a document from 1957, which confirms her active participation in the resistance,” said Cullen.
In contrast to the museum’s recent Dior show, which told the story of a fashion house that has outlived its founder by 66 years, the Chanel exhibition ends with her death in 1971. The exhibition is personal, and therefore, by dint of Chanel’s controversial life, political. “We did not want to ignore her wartime record – but first and foremost, this is a fashion exhibition,” said Cullen.
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