was coco chanel a women's libber?

If Coco Chanel designed for liberated female customers, it may have been because she counted herself among them.

Women's Wear Daily reports that a new book entitled "Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life" contains juicy details about the couturier's exciting romantic history, which apparently included an open attitude towards bisexuality, an affair with then-married Salvador Dalí and a German boyfriend named Hans Günther von Dincklage who also might have been a Nazi spy. Biographer Lisa Chaney also chronicles Coco's drug habit (opiates, of course). Who knew?

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If you would like to read more about the life of Coco Chanel check out a story I did "Her Style Lives On" back in 2010.