The Death of Coco Chanel

"Explore the captivating and complex world of Coco Chanel in this comprehensive video, delving into her life story, just as Apple TV+'s 'The New Look' series brings renewed focus to the iconic fashion designer's era. Discover the untold truths and controversies behind Chanel's rise from poverty to becoming a symbol of Parisian chic, revolutionizing the fashion industry with her timeless 'poor girl' style, the invention of the little black dress, and the legendary Chanel No. 5 perfume.
This video is an in-depth journey through Chanel's life, highlighting her early struggles in an orphanage, her ambitious rise in the fashion world, and her complex relationships, including with Etienne Balsan and Boy Capel. We'll also tackle the darker aspects of her story, such as her controversial affiliations during World War II and her relationship with a Nazi officer, which continue to spark debates about her legacy.
Furthermore, we'll explore Chanel's significant impact on women's fashion and how her designs brought comfort and simplicity into the luxury world. As the series 'The New Look' shines a light on her rivalry with Christian Dior, we delve deeper into how this rivalry and her later years, including her comeback at 71, shaped the fashion landscape forever.
Join us in uncovering the life of Coco Chanel - from her triumphant successes to her personal tragedies and controversial choices. This video is not just a biography; it's a critical look at how Chanel's legacy has shaped modern fashion and continues to influence designers today. Her life was a tapestry of innovation, resilience, and controversy, making her story as captivating as her designs.
Perfect for fashion enthusiasts, history buffs, and viewers of Apple TV+'s 'The New Look', this video is your chance to understand the real Coco Chanel and her indelible mark on the fashion world."
Coco Chanel Biography
Chanel and Nazi Controversy
Fashion Industry History
Women in Fashion
Chanel No. 5 Story
French Fashion Designers
World War II Impact on Fashion
Dior vs Chanel
Female Empowerment in Fashion
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[@MythicMindScape21]

Forgive me if I mispronounce any French words. This week is just a short video, we will go back to our deep dives next week. Thanks for watching. If you have any requests on topics you would like us to cover, please let us know.

[@rdmoon4416]

Let us come correct; alone does NOT mean lonely. It doesn’t.

[@TimoteoDeBaum]

Amen 🙏🏾

[@connievino4226]

True.

[@terry4137]

She was lonely! You, may be but with all the bs think you’re not! 😂

[@gillchambers9008]

who wants to die with anyone.

[@janeck.8695]

Well said!

[@susanWong-Andrus]

She was an opportunist, who fought to stay alive because that is the only way for a poor child from an orphanage to survive.

[@Nefertum1000]

To say she was an opportunist, is outrageous! Think back, it’s the early 1900, she liberated women from corsets and showed the world that women can succeed at a time which was dominated by men. She was innovative, creative and successful and was very proud of it. Kudos to Mademoiselle Gabrielle Chanel!

[@adriennebrown3778]

​@@Nefertum1000she may have "survived" but her great gifts were hers alone which she brought forth out of the crucible of her being

[@odrisrosario2465]

😳 interesting way of analyzing her life 😮🙄

[@amariev226]

You have a very good narration voice, low and calming with perfect inflection. New favorite channel! Good work.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thank you so much. Hope you will enjoy our next video on Friday.

[@amariev226]

She was a survivor. Strong and alone a woman among strong men in a man's world. Ms. Chanel did it her way and lived a life as good or better than anyone else in her shoes. Women then, just as now, do what they have to do, to get ahead. At the very least she was honorable with her fashion work and not an "onlyfans" influencer. I admire her will to live and to fight, not taking the suicidal way out, as too many famous people have done. Respect.

[@andraclark9993]

Yes she did it her way ! She sided with the Nazis.

[@stargazeronesixseven]

🙏 Under difficult situation of WWII ... Many had to do things they don't like just to survive! 🕯🌼🌿🌍✌💜🕊🇫🇷

[@amitisshahbanu5642]

a genius, a true artist

[@susanhill149]

Very insightful and well presented. I enjoy your story telling. Thank you!

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thank you so much for the comment, it means a lot to hear such nice words.

[@janbahno303]

I don't think spying was her reason for the friendship with a German but I can see how it would appear that way...

[@TimoteoDeBaum]

I see you Chanel the child, and acknowledge you. You are not forgotten ❤ I too am an orphan and my career has taken me in, I’m building a future for myself as well 🎉 inspiring story

[@suzannejenkins3896]

Hope you achieve everything you wish for...Good Luck!!!

[@TimoteoDeBaum]

@@suzannejenkins3896 thank you very much 🙏🏾

[@MythicMindScape21]

Good luck . Stay strong 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@TheFabulousLV]

Stay focused on your goals, may you find much success and kindness. I was once there too.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

“We are born in another’s pain, and perish in our own.”

[@libertygiveme1987]

@QueenBee - That really is BEAUTIFUL!!!

[@jeffreisner9880]

I have simple tastes. I'm satisfied with only the best. --Coco Chanel

[@judyvispi]

A Very Strong Woman! Her story would make a Great movie. I Hope someone takes Her story to the Silver Screen! God Bless!😇🙏❤️

[@MythicMindScape21]

Me too. There have been a few versions of her on screen, but none tell her definitive story.

[@judyvispi]

@MythicMindScape21 Well I think it would be an award winner if written, directed & and cast properly. I wish we could inspire someone, that can do this. I'll pray on it, God Bless!🙏😇

[@judyvispi]

@@MythicMindScape21 CoCo Channel More Than Just A Name!

[@sawahtb]

Chanel #5 is my favorite perfume.

[@MadonnaGrogan]

Me too

[@KennedyMusicTheories]

I Third that Emotion!! Love It!

[@ohmeowzer1]

Don’t worry about your mispronunciation of the French words you did a great job

[@alvarocolindres4764]

Is amazing how famous someone can be or get and yet when you died you take nothing everything in life is borrow

[@thechaz83]

Reminds me of a favorite song lyric “Life is just bets anyway” .

[@JohnInTheShelter]

This was very informative. She's been such a famous name (even I knew who she was as a teen), but I didn't know much about her.

[@jamesl9371]

Rags to riches. Amazing story

[@annemcdonald5602]

Thank you! Your summation of her life and the wonderful images in 10 minutes is astounding! Coco Chanel was a survivor.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thank you so much for the comment. ❤

[@devoradamaris]

🕊🌎🕊🕊sharing🫂thankYOU for posting

[@thelinguist3683]

I didn't know she had such little ownership of the brand. How did that happen?

[@MythicMindScape21]

She did not have the money to finance the brand herself. So she needed backers.

[@anastasiayatsenuk]

Dont forget she came from a very poor background. She had those people investing in her, thus they had their shares

[@reidx512]

I did know that piece as my mother had a few suits and all I ever wanted was a handbag..(currently I have a pair of flats, that I purchased @ a consignment store in Miami). I do find it interesting she never owned her label outright. I am sure the gentlman that had the controlling piece, knew she was anti-semitic and just never allowed her back in...

[@anneburland5306]

​@@reidx512Who knows, possibly the way he treated her and the terms to which she had to agree contributed to her anti-semitism. A deeper dive needed here.

[@cynthiamarston2208]

87 and sensing your life is almost over…..her Nazi alliance was confused by wanting to save her nephew. Handsome man

[@fredetioles4890]

She closed her fashion house in retaliation against her (female) workers who, demanding better wages and working conditions, had participated in the 1938 strikes.

[@douglasmackenzie6395]

After Chanel had fed, supported and protected them from harm during the many war years, all they could do as she got back on her feet, was to go on strike. Such a lack of gratitude by her staff.

[@roberta9833]

I take note of it but I don't judge. I can't do it because I don't know… All I know is that she was an exceptional seamstress and designer.

[@yvettemarshallTWN]

The woman was complex and brilliant-not perfect. How to separate the creative from the moral degenerate? To this day #No5 is 🥇This was very fulfilling biopic. 👍🏽

[@anneburland5306]

A moral degenerate? That seems awfully harsh. I would want to know a whole lot more about her life and her history before making such a statement.

[@yvettemarshallTWN]

@@anneburland5306 Yes, as you should. I’m familiar enough with her to say she was unique in style but not in human nature! Her affection for tyrant Hitler was dubious but her political leanings were no secret. Was she a spy for Hitler? Who knows. Josephine Baker was one for France, for liberty!

[@debracipriano2691]

I love Chanel number five perfume❤

[@ahskogen]

Why is it not mentioned that she possibly played a double role during the war, as she also worked with the French resistance?

[@MythicMindScape21]

It's a fair point and information did come out regarding the possibility of that a few years back, but the time in the videos is limited. But thank you for pointing it out. Sometimes it is hard to know what to leave out and what to put in, but the point you make is an important one.

[@Luisfernando-kr7wq]

When you have to exile to switzerland with the french police after you that means she was not a french patriot at all...

[@aziblas8299]

A woman who did what she had to do! Especially in that era of time!

[@MythicMindScape21]

She certainly achieved a lot coming from nothing.

[@fundatunc]

She was an opprtunist and tht's fine...I love her design so much

[@deniseherrera729]

Coco Before Channel I loved this movie! The music the story. The woman chosen is fantastic! Thank you!

[@MythicMindScape21]

I liked the move lot too. Really well done.

[@kippytx]

Very interesting

[@acastrohowell]

I wear Chanel # 5 🥰

[@cocosurgerow]

Ylang ylang tree

[@acastrohowell]

@@cocosurgerow English please

[@cocosurgerow]

That is the name of the tree that that is used for some ingredients of Chanel 5. I have one in SW Florida.

[@barbarabarton8375]

Great lady but a touched soul

[@-DIVINEHAZEL]

💜COCO A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN HAD A EYE FOR FASHION & HER PERFUME STILL REMAINS TO BE #1 SELLER💜

[@eunidapieters9331]

Somehow woman like her survive this world, and what it threw at her to use, to survive.WW2 is more than 80 years in the past, CC (the brand) is stronger than ever.

[@rosemaryjere-nyendwa4947]

With thanks to the Wortheimer family who have carried the brand and given it longevity.

[@johncampbell1152]

This mini-bio of the complex Chanel is so superbly produced and keenly unique that I’ve Subscribed to this channel and will watch every video they create. Beautifully, dignified, revelatory.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thank you.

[@eileeneamon9070]

She overcame very difficult odds and must have been incredibly strong and intellegent.

[@MythicMindScape21]

I don't think anyone can argue with that.

[@rhondaroberts2223]

She was a talented designer with a very interesting, if not somewhat tragic, life. Personally, I love her designs (but could never afford them)!❤

[@user-yu3hz3wv3c]

Whoever she was she made beautiful stuff that smelled good and beautiful stuff to wear and I love that perfume Coco Chanel p and she rest in peace

[@miraclenichols4332]

Iconic!!!💙

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you love your channel ❤

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thank you :)

[@brannonmcclure6970]

She brought chic to fashion. 🧑‍🎨♾️🕺

[@WayneSmit-fw3cv]

She was utterly selfmade- the affair with Boy Capel and ending in her affair with the 2nd Duke of Westminster which saved her ultimately through Churchill after WW2

[@sharonwhitehouse6949]

the Life of Coco Chanel is one of escapism, albeit shallow, still interesting.

[@LaurieMarieValdezRNCCRN]

Life is vicious and cruel❤

[@yamil.343]

She had balls that’s for sure. I don’t agree with some of what she did, but I admire her chutzpah & gumption. And she was undoubtedly talented.

[@adriennebrown3778]

Her creative life seemed borne from both darkness and light which makes her, like many other true creatives - timeless and utterly unique. Love her 🎉

[@SouthernBelleReviews]

Gabrielle Chanel really was a narcissist in my opinion though. I don't worship her anymore.

[@romandecaesar4782]

Your video is somewhat well made, better than many that were poorly done. As I read through the comments, it is so pathetic that your audience claims to know Gabriella so well, and yet, even with the help of your video, they know her not at all. As for me, I miss my Great, Great Aunt very much.

[@MythicMindScape21]

I honestly wish I could make a longer video and do her story justice, sadly I am a small channel just starting. And making a 60-minute video that tells all aspects of her life and gets into the details that I would like to touch on is not feasible, as people will not tune in for that length of time, and KZbin will not share it. No one is more disappointed with the things I leave out than I am. I can assure you, when my channel grows, I will return to this video and create the real biography I want to make on her, and give her the story she deserves. If there is anything you would like to include or stories you would like to tell please contact me, and I will include it. And I will make that video when I have enough subscribers to justify such a long video. Thank you for your comment 🧡

[@gailna3325]

That’s not true that she only had 10% ownership. She had slightly less of a percentage than the Wortheimer 😢family. They put her in business, and when the war came, she ratted out Wortheimer, as a Jew, to get controlling interest away from him. She was very rich, and her worth wouldn’t have been possible without Wortheimer.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Can you clarify, I said she had 10 percent ownership at the time of the war, and she fought with Wertheimer to get control, and ultimately lost, and in the end had a very small percentage. What do you disagree with, from the video? I'd appreciate your knowledge and clarification if you see some error. Thanks

[@desstanbridge8283]

So many heartbreaking stories of how poor people were those times. Chanal had determination and her own unique style. What would you do if the communists or radical muslims took over your country in a war. Maybe her connection with the german in Geneva (Switzerland ) kept her safe and alive!!

[@anastasiayatsenuk]

I was thinking the same. She was trying to save her nephew. It's easy to say now 'how could anyone collaborate with the germans'. But back then everyone was trying to survive how they could

[@amariev226]

THIS

[@eg4151]

Absolutely well said!

[@user-vs7nv8mo4e]

she was an independent soul who made good use of her environment.....and became a success

[@MythicMindScape21]

She certainly did.

[@guldenaydin9918]

🌹

[@22Too]

What is RFI?

[@MythicMindScape21]

Radio France.

[@lulugoulart5014]

Because she came from poverty she became a hustler with a very questionable character!

[@Angelfeather100]

By many testimonies, she was also a mean person. History tends to remember only her achievement in the fashion industry.

[@reidx512]

This was so nice and well done. The very best day of my life (at the time) was getting a handbag... oh, I was SO happy. Kinda mad @ the Nazi implications and more truth. Yet, I was kinda young and dumb, and I thought this was living. Oh how I was wrong...just wrong.....

[@MythicMindScape21]

:) I've also bought Chanel, she owned very little of the brand after the war anyway. Maybe less than 5 percent. BMW did a lot more to help the German cause than she did, they made aircraft engines and munitions, they used prisoners of war and concentration camp detainees in their factories. Thank you so much for the comment, and discussion.

[@kimberlybates6261]

Probably the best thing she did was send her nephew to school. Because she had no maternal tendency and that's not her fault, she was abandoned and she did many of the things she did for survival right or wrong. Sad thing she was kind of constantly reminded by the men she hooked up with that she was okay to have a good time with, but not good enough by their standards for marriage. That is painful, like she's abandoned over and over again by men. Was very interesting.

[@user-jt7sb9tw2g]

60 million american Indians killed in genocide by american settlers establishing America

[@jujubees5855]

The Tunneling Rats with child sized biohazard stained mattresses in the tunnels make me understand her sentiment.

[@BILLIEWILKS-DAVIS]

ONLY 1 COCO ❤🎉

[@anastasiayatsenuk]

And again, just like Truman Capote, another broken person afected by a difficult childhood

[@JenLev]

Everyone has a difficult childhood they don't become Nazis. Quit feeling sorry for these people. They sold their souls.

[@rhondaprater7361]

I have nothing to say except may. Lord. God gave. M. E. R. C. Y . She went thru alots...in life. But she was a 👠♀️ of confidence and strength!! My sister Gloria. Branch loves Chanel no.5# I would love to try. Chance.l 🥳🥂 celebrate her in soooooomannnny wayz. She was an icon legendary in her own rights! Coco she was very ingenious l 🤔 think she personally had it goin on!!!! Rhonda. Prater. Merced. California. Her trade and fashionista masterpieces continued to give her successes!!!

[@lindaryan611]

All through her life it seemed that she learnt to survive one way or another

[@katesleuth1156]

It’s unfortunate that Coco who was only able to build her business with the money of a partner, ended up with a bad deal.

[@MsJoybird1]

Her drug abuse was not mentioned! By 1935, Chanel had become a habitual drug user, injecting herself with morphine on a daily basis: a habit she maintained to the end of her life.

[@angelinalozada189]

Did not know this. Knew about the nazi lover, but not the drugs.

[@romandecaesar4782]

Your comment is false. Gabriella was not a drug addict.

[@eg4151]

Any evidence or just the common BS for getting likes? It's well-known that anyone can throw out anything just for showing off.

[@raulbetancourt5795]

I Hope I never had to face half the shit she had, because I don't I will be able to handle it

[@imachristian1324]

Poor little rich girl

[@GaryG63]

Coco and I dated in 1984, very nice person, but no fashion sense under the sheets

[@margaret-ellenadams5536]

How did that happen? Follow the money 😮

[@WandaBarquinG]

Her life seemed to have been a testament to both sides…

[@queencleopatraisispleja]

The reincarnation of Chanel lives in Macedonia and has a clone Audrey Tautou. This is a serious crime of robbery and ridicule.

[@lauramilne6516]

It's always possible she may have been a double agent and surviving at the same time, you did mention her nephew was a POW, , what would you have done,.,.,..,in another video it was said Winston Churchill came to her aid at the end of the war, ,, ,, seems interesting to say the least,.,...

[@MythicMindScape21]

It is very possible she was a double agent, however in France she was viewed as someone who betrayed the country. Maybe we will never know the truth, but it is still a good question.

[@lysem4392]

I don't like Gabrielle Chanel as a person. Among other things, while her great rival (and much more creative and interesting designer) Schiaparelli worked for the Red Cross during WWII, Chanel slept with Nazis. I also don't like liars, and Chanel lied so much about her origins that I don't believe anything she said about anything else. About her fashions: I quite like her pre-war designs. However I could never explain to myself the popularity of her signature post-war suits. Blocky, shapeless waist-erasing frumpy things cut from unattractive lumpy tweeds; they make the sveltest woman look 20 pounds heavier. I'm old enough to remember when these suits became widely available, and I hated them even as a grade-school child. I hate the quilted purses with chain straps too. So no, I'm not a Chanel fan either regarding the person or the designs.

[@Raindrops77]

For me she was a Woman who got everything but lacked the most Important and that is Jesus Christ . On the End you are alone missreable scared without hope where your Journey ends. So sad . You gain it all but what stays with you in the Grave ? And yes she was afraid. 😢

[@msdanascully11]

Forgive me but I think she's been worshipped far beyond her real merits. She copied a lot, she gets credit for ideas that were even hers, and whole heartedly sided with the Germans. No simpathy for this woman.

[@TheFinalBoss316]

Some things can't be forgiven, siding with the germans is how she should be remembered.

[@MythicMindScape21]

Thanks for the comment.

[@TheFinalBoss316]

@@MythicMindScape21 Thanks for the vid 🧡🧡

[@wjglll340]

Oh nonsense.

[@TheFinalBoss316]

@@wjglll340 Tell that to all the people that died, you can't sell out your country and sleep with the enemy and be called a hero just cause you designed clothes.

[@wjglll340]

@@TheFinalBoss316 Perhaps she wasn't selling out her country but agreed with Hitlers politics. A lot of people did. At the end of the war, General Patton himself said we fought on the wrong side.

[@user-rs9jq2my3w]

I used to admire her,but, the more I learned of her I have changed my mind. Abhorrent at best.

[@ingridclare7411]

I never liked the style of her suits but so much else was/is wonderful

[@carayoshizumi7503]

I have heard that she was gay in her last years

[@williamkazak469]

I don't judge. Its not my job.

[@eg4151]

No ones is, yet everyone's doing that easier than peeing 🤬

[@donsarde]

Le père Chanel a laissé ses deux dans un couvent chez des bonnes sœurs.

[@HBADGERBRAD]

It’s so easy to judge her. We weren’t there, not one of us can say for certain they know what happened when all there is for evidence is circumstantial at best. Some claim the evidence stacks up against her. But unless you were in that room and apart of what was going on, we don’t know. At times of war survival is paramount. I believe she did what she had to to protect her loved ones, her business and survive. You and I can’t say what we would have done given the same situation, but I can guess we would want survive. You might have welcomed a nazi to your bed if it meant you would survive and possibly help your loved ones. Evidence isn’t absolute proof. For gawd sakes nazis’s march down aMErickan streets today like they have the right to threaten the lives of American citizens. Where are the judges to stop what’s happening in the USA Today? Useless you walk a mile in someone’s shoes you are in no position to pass judgement. She came from a loveless childhood with only her sister and lovers to cling to, I have a great deal of admiration for her. ❤

[@MythicMindScape21]

You are right we do not know the absolute truth. And some information came out that she was working as a double agent. Your point is fair, that unless we know the truth, or have walked in the shoes of another person it is hard to pass judgement. In these videos we try and tell the story as fairly as possible and avoid the rumors or judgements on the people involved, but in such short videos it is hard say as much as we would like on the issue, so comments like yours are important.

[@lewismusser7184]

Forgive me, but I placed my comment on this video under the Dior video. Oops. So check ✔️ it out there. sorry 😔 and transfer it here if possible O.K.?

[@user-pc3es6hg8b]

Rage to richies

[@wjglll340]

WW2 was started when a German dictator invaded Poland to retake an area that was given to Poland at the end of WW1. WW2 ended with Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe controlled by a communist dictator who killed millions including 6 million Ukrainians in the Holodomor. To support H was a reasonable position. At the end of the war Patton said we fought on the wrong side. I have no idea what Coco Chanels motivations were but supporting H was a reasonable position given how quickly he improved Germany in such a short time. He also saved them from the Weimar Republic.

[@thelinguist3683]

Your point is taken, but Hitler was also executing Ukrainians, he hated the Slavs, almost as much as he hated jews. Had Hitler won, Ukrainians, and many others would have had a far worse fate. Many Ukrainians greeted the germans as liberators until they started being executed. No one is arguing that Stalin wasn't a monster; he was, in fact he helped Germany take Poland. But do you really feel Europe, the entire continent would have been better off under German rule? Whether or not you wish to talk about if the punishment to Germany after WWI was fair or not, and the issue with Poland was fair or not, is a different story; and that is not one I am debating. I have sympathy for Chanel, and can not judge her really, as I do not know exactly what she did or did not do. But Hitler invading France was simply a way to get retribution for the punishment levied on Germany after world war 1. And whether or not you can say if things were better for Poland under communist or fascist rule is one thing, but had germany won, all of europe would have been under fascist rule.

[@valiac4976]

Very conveniently you don't mention how many millions Hitler exterminated in concentration camps and in starved occupied countries. You don't really try to hide that you're a neonazi. Unfortunately for people like you, other people know history and the atrocities of Nazism that you like so much

[@amariev226]

This

[@user-dt4ly7oc9x]

she loved who she loved. Let the Nazi obsession go and accept her for who and what she was.

[@lulugoulart5014]

I don't think there's any obsession about her being with a Nazi. She was an opportunist and anti-Semitic.

[@MythicMindScape21]

You feel it is unfair to mention it as part of her story ? As she was in exile for many years after the war because it was believed she collaborated. So it is hard to tell her story without that chapter.

[@virginiagrundman4012]

So....she screwed over her Jewish investor. How typical.

[@MythicMindScape21]

She wasn't successful and in the end, only ended up with a very small percentage, it was not public information, but most people estimate about 3 percent.

[@virginiagrundman4012]

@@MythicMindScape21 she did what she thought she had to. She was humiliated by her upbringing and tried to make sure she was never found penniless again.

[@virginiagrundman4012]

@@MythicMindScape21 class distinction is everything in France. Of course she'd want to hide her start. She was a survivor, plain and simple.

[@eg4151]

How typical is the "victim's" syndrome we all ought to face for centuries.

[@camillep9346]

I think she is absolutely remarkable. That two men were convinced of her skills, believed in and helped her business to launch, and her devotion to Andre, and her sustainability, obvious talent, dignity and resurrection.... remarkable. Who doesn't do 'whatever way they can survive' during War! WHO KNOWS the complex conditions she was faced with!! ** The fact she only ever received 10% when her quality product is still the Best - makes my Feminist heckles rise! She certainly paid 'her way'....with those bestowing power nicely exploiting her to the hilt 🥹