What’s the fashion world’s problem with Jews? Seriously. John Galliano recently went nutso about our Jewish cousins, and now, people are accusing the ghost of Coco Chanel of being a massive Jew hater.
See, there’s this book out which points at the fashion legend while mouthing the words “Nazi sympathiser”.
In fact, it’s suggested that she wasn’t so much sympathetic, but actually a proper Nazi, collaborating with them during World War II as a spy code-named “Westminster.” So that means, by our reckoning, that if you have Chanel anything, you may as well go and defecate in a Synagogue during Shabbat.
In some book, which no-one will bother reading because we all prefer looking at pervy .gifs on various Tumblrs, called ‘Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War’, some fella called Hal Vaughan claims that Coco was a Nazi spy while sucking off a German officer called Hans Gunther von Dincklage.
Hur. Dincklage.
In this book, it is claimed that? Chanel was deeply anti-Semitic:
“Chanel was more than just a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator. She was a numbered Nazi agent working for Abwehr, Germany’s military intelligence agency”
Chanel had an Abwehr agent number apparently. F-7124, codename “Westminster”, should you want to know/name your rubbish indie band after something vaguely edgy ironic.
Of course, the Chanel fashion house (or should that be ‘Haus’?) is trying to pour cold water all over these claims by shouting ‘BUT SOME OF HER FRIENDS WERE JEWISH, SILLY!’
They might as well say ‘Yes. She’s as racist as they come’. It’s also worth pointing out that the Nazi’s really did have very well tailored suits too.
So if you have anything by Chanel or, indeed, any clothes which may have been even slightly influenced by her work, then you can hand yourself into the anti-Semitic police, you terrible, terrible Jew loathing ogres.
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Bill says
You’ve spelt Semitic incorrectly in the last paragraph.