Gabrielle Coco Chanel Perfume Founder Fashion Designer Photo Postcard

WHD  This is a rarely found undated but modern origin published postcard featuring Gabrielle Coco Chanel the lady who founded the historic perfume brand which this beautiful rare collectors souvenir has full details of her history and achievements on reverse unused and mint.

"...Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 10 January 1971)  was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the postWorld War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing into jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s..."

"... Her couture house closed in 1939, with the outbreak of World War II. Chanel stayed in France during the Nazi German occupation and collaborated with the occupiers and the Vichy puppet regime. Declassified documents revealed that she had collaborated directly with the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst. One plan in late 1943 was for her to carry an SS peace overture to Churchill to end the war.  Chanel began a liaison with a German diplomat/spy she had known before the war, Baron (Freiherr) Hans G¸nther von Dincklage.  After the end of the war, Chanel was interrogated about her relationship with Dincklage, but she was not charged as a collaborator due to intervention by her friendBritish prime minister Winston Churchill. [8] When the war ended, Chanel moved to Switzerland before returning to Paris in 1954 to revive her fashion house..."