Coco Chanel
Although Chanel was viewed as a prominent figure of luxury fashion during her life, Chanel's influence has been examined further post death in 1971. She continued to spend her final years in luxury evermore at her magnificent Ritz apartment. When Chanel died, the first lady of France, Mme, Pompidou organized a hero's tribute. Soon damaging documents from French intelligence agencies were released that outlined Chanel's war time involvements that quickly ended her monumental funeral plans.
Gabrielle Duchêne
Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
World War II (1939–45) was a difficult period for Duchêne, but by great good fortune her apartment was never raided and her records remain intact.
Gabrielle Duchêne died on 3 August 1954 in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 84.