
Part One: Coco Chanel: The Nazi Who Invented Fashion
Behind the Bastards
The Tragic Death of a Single Father
In 1895, when Coco is 12, her mom is 33 years old. She dies trying to get warm and Coco and her siblings find her. But there's no other adults in the house. And we don't actually know how long they're alone with their mom's freezing corpse before other adults find them and take them away. So he basically takes whatever money he has left and then fucks off to the U.S., never sees him again. This is the end of her dad being a factor in her life.
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