One of the most astonishing things about people finding out NOW that #BrigitteBardot was a dyed-in-the-wool right-wing racist is that people are asking what she did wrong, and folks are saying "Yeah well, you know...She's like #CocoChanel in that respect..."

And then people are going "WAIT BACK UP WHAT IS WRONG WITH COCO CHANEL?" and getting double-barrelled Education.

Thousands of eulogies using the phrase "sex symbol" to describe these women.

They were symbols all right: Buddhist ones that were reversed and rotated 45°.

@spacehobo well Chanel is like Henry Ford in that respect

@babble_endanger I mean, Hitler had a photo of Henry Ford on his desk, and adapted the Dearborn Independent's Ford-penned antisemitic filth for his own propaganda. Chanel just kind of followed the money, really.

Hitler was a Fordist before things went the other way round in mutual admiration.