Paris in Wartime, Part One: The Industry That Stayed Open
French couture industry to Berlin and Vienna. It didn't happen, because one middle-aged couturier spent four years talking them out of it, meeting by meeting.
Part One of a two-part episode on Paris fashion under Nazi occupation: who left, who stayed, what the wartime regulations actually allowed, and who was left buying couture in a city where clothing was rationed to about one outfit a year.
Part Two - the collaboration, the theft, and the people who fought back
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