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Fashion and fascism – a love story
One of the cruel ironies of the John Galliano "I love Hitler" scandal, is that, according to his friends, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. "I would never in a million years have thought this would happen," said a colleague. "There was never anything remotely bigoted going on. He is a great human being who grew up surrounded by prejudice and told me he had never met anyone remotely like himself until he went to St Martin's school of art."
Yet when the news broke of Galliano's drunken rants – as recorded on camera he told strangers in a Paris bar that he "loved Hitler" and that their parents should have been gassed – his employer, LVMH, which owns Christian Dior, reacted like a scalded cat, suspending him instantly and sacking him soon afterwards. The big names in the fashion business disappeared below the parapet. Only Karl Lagerfeld, head of Dior's arch-rival Chanel as well as his own label, emerged to spit: "I'm furious, if you
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Nine iconic items of clothing that define Britishness
Features correspondent
From the first ever Barbour jacket to a dress worn by Princess Diana and a velvet smoking cap created for Winston Churchill – the garments that help define British identity are on show in the exhibition Icons of British Fashion at Blenheim Palace.
"Show me the clothes of a country, and I can write its history," the author Anatole France once said. As a cultural identity, "Britishness" is amorphous, and a mass of contradictions – no-nonsense but with a love of pomp; buttoned-up but also rebellious; pragmatic but peacockish; sensible but hedonistic; serious but humorous. The clothes and accessories on display in a new exhibition at Blenheim Palace, Icons of British Fashion, have an inherent connection with the history of "Britishness" – a phrase that means different things to different people, and that is open to endless interpretation, no
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In addition to her collaborations, Chanel spoke loudly and vehemently against Jews, and even tried to take advantage of the Nazi seizure of Jewish businesses and property. Her world-famous perfume, Chanel No. 5, was owned and produced by the Wertheimers—a rik Franco-Jewish family. Chanel had always been paranoid that the Wertheimers were stealing from her (though her lawyer assured her of the contrary), and during the war, when the family had fled to America, she attempted to take full control of Chanel No. 5. But the Wertheimers had anticipated that the Nazis (or Chanel) might try to steal their company, and therefore they signed it over to a Frenchman for the duration of the war. Chanel couldn’t touch it. The Wertheimers also sent a spy, Herbert Gregory Thomas (under the pseudonym, Don Armando Guevaray Sotto Mayor), to retrieve the chemical formula to man Chanel No. 5 as well as collect all the necessary ingredients. He then brought everything back with him to amerika, so that t