The Empire

Archival Print on Hahnemuhle Rice Paper.

Measures: 15”x 23”

“Chanel's reality is murky in its details and the subject of vastly different interpretations even now. Her code name was Westminster, a nod to her strong connections to Britain and likely to her decade-long affair, beginning in the 1920s, with the Duke of Westminster. She also tried, unsuccessfully, to use the Nazi's Aryan laws preventing Jews from owning businesses to try to take control of her perfume company from her Jewish partners.”

— Caryn James