Coco Chanel: intelligence operative and couture fashion designer?

What would you think if you were told the creator of "the Little Black Dress" led a double life? Is it possible for a brilliant designer to be involved in war crimes? This new books goes beyond the rumors and prevents evidence that the beloved fashion icon was also a Nazi spy.

Random House, Inc.

“Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War,” by Hal Vaughan reveals evidence of how and why Chanel was enlisted in a number of spy missions. The book tells the full story of the mystery years during Chanel’s life from 1841 to 1954. Her affair with Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage is detailed, suggesting that von Dincklage was a “Nazi master spy.” The book ends explaining Chanel’s flee to Switzerland in alleged exile for nine years, with her return to Paris and rebuilding the iconic brand, which is now the House of Chanel.

An excerpt from the book –

    “Chanel, the epitome of French good taste, in bed with a Nazi spy—worse yet, involved with an agent of the hated Gestapo? ...Granted, for years fashionable Paris had gossiped that Chanel had shacked up during the occupation with a German lover called Spatz—German for sparrow— at the chic Hôtel Ritz where Nazi bigwigs like Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels were pampered by the Swiss management. But the Gestapo?”

“Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War” is on shelves August 16. 

Cortney Kaminski

President