New Coco Chanel exhibition to open at V&A Museum

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A major new Coco Chanel exhibition is to open this weekend at London’s V&A Museum. The exhibition of more than 200 items casts new light on the French fashion designer’s colourful and controversial life. Although she died in 1971, her design style continues to influence the way women dress today. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:03 I learned from the get-go that Chanel could be subversive.

00:29 And radical.

00:30 And also could be a symbol of a very independent woman,

00:34 which Chanel herself was.

00:36 And you thought, that's me.

00:37 That's going to be me.

00:38 That's going to be me, yes.

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00:43 Why do you think the story prevails

00:58 that she was linked to the Nazis?

01:01 That's a question I've thought about a lot.

01:04 I mean, is it kind of misogyny that it's easy to blame women?

01:10 It's a good headline, isn't it?

01:13 But in fact, these recent documents

01:16 really prove beyond any shadow of a doubt

01:19 that she was in the resistance.

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01:28 These design templates, these wonderful garments,

01:34 really stand the test of time.

01:36 And that is why the name of Chanel

01:38 is still so relevant today, when so many of her peers

01:41 are no longer names that are known by the general public.

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