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    Getting Over Coco

    Coco Chanel, the subject of several children’s books that overlook her dark side, was a vile Nazi sympathizer. Maybe we should be teaching kids about other designers instead.

    byMarjorie Ingall
  • A masked woman in a foaming milk bath at Helena Rubinstein's New York salon, 1937.
    A masked woman in a foaming milk bath at Helena Rubinstein's New York salon, 1937.
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    Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum

    A new exhibit about the cosmetics queen shows at what cost she taught women to power their way through beauty’s slow fade

    byJeremy Sigler
  • Mary 'Billie' Marcus, Gabrielle Chanel, and Stanley Marcus at the Marcus Western Party at the Black Mark Farm, Flower Mound, Texas, on Sept. 7, 1957.
    Mary 'Billie' Marcus, Gabrielle Chanel, and Stanley Marcus at the Marcus Western Party at the Black Mark Farm, Flower Mound, Texas, on Sept. 7, 1957.
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    When Stanley Marcus Invited Nazi Collaborator Coco Chanel to Dallas

    In the late 1950s, the Jewish department store mogul salvaged Chanel’s reputation—and burnished his own

    byJames McAuley
  • Natalie Portman arrives at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 26, 2012.(Getty Images )
    Natalie Portman arrives at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 26, 2012.(Getty Images )
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    Antique Politik

    In choosing vintage Dior for her Oscars dress, Natalie Portman became an icon of fashion diplomacy—by maintaining both her ethics and her endorsement deal

    byRachel Shukert
  • Coco Chanel in 1958.(STF/AFP/Getty Images)
    Coco Chanel in 1958.(STF/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Coco Not Cuckoo for Jews

    New book says Chanel’s anti-Semitism was ingrained

    byMarc Tracy
  • Coco Chanel; Christian Dior; John Galliano.(Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images; AFP/Getty Images; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
    Coco Chanel; Christian Dior; John Galliano.(Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet/Getty Images; AFP/Getty Images; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
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    Fashion’s Fascists

    The fashion world claims to be shocked over John Galliano’s anti-Semitic outbursts. But it’s an industry based on exclusion, and plenty of iconic European fashion figures don’t hold up to scrutiny.

    byRachel Shukert
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