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denton- seems this summer is supposed to be a Coco fest. Funny how we are so happy to honor Nazi collaborators.The new films coming out both scrubbed any references to the Nazis.
Wasn’t Audry Tatou in Amelie? One of my favorite movies of all time.
I’d forgotten how much I like winter until this last month. I love it.
I always thought of Coco Chanel as a brilliant designer. I didn’t know about her politics.
^^^^^^^
Tautou
Givenchy dressed Audrey Hepburn. I love that style.
Two documentaries coming out about Coco. From the link I posted, regarding her association with the Nazis:
“None of this will be discussed, of course, in two upcoming biographical films: Coco Avant Chanel, starring Audrey Tautou, and Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, with Anna Mouglalis, about Chanel’s relationship with the Russian composer. Nor was it detailed in a Chanel television mini-series with Shirley MacLaine last year, or in the 1981 film Chanel Solitaire. With commercial good sense, all films avoid the German invasion of Paris and Chanel’s collaboration. It’s a case of “Don’t Mention The War!—
I LOVE Audrey Tatou and would have seen that movie, but knowing now what I know about Coco and recognizing the movie will be sugar coated, I have no interest.
“Or that everything is viewed as taste and that there is no recognition of the fact that there are profound differences in value systems?”
donatella,
I would say that tastes follow value systems to a certain extent.
This explains the common attacks on given value systems through ever-changing tastes in culture.
Also explains polarized US regions.
While I am not looking forward to more precipitation, if it rains, it will get rid of some of the snow, or snirt, as some people are calling it.