Coco Chanel liberated women from corsets, invented the little black dress, and created the most famous perfume in history. She also spent World War II in a suite at the Ritz with a German intelligence officer, was recruited as a Nazi agent under the code name “Westminster,” and escaped prosecution after the Liberation through connections so powerful that the full story was suppressed for decades.

This episode traces Chanel from her orphanage childhood through the fashion revolution that made her name synonymous with elegance, the wartime collaboration that should have destroyed her, and the comeback that proved her brand was more powerful than her biography.

• Chanel’s orphanage childhood and the invention of the modern woman’s wardrobe
• Chanel No. 5 and the business empire that made her the wealthiest woman in France
• The Nazi collaboration — Agent Westminster, the Ritz suite, and the intelligence operations
• The postwar escape from prosecution and the 1954 comeback that restored her to the top of fashion