The legend of Chanel often centers on one woman — the visionary, the rebel, the icon. But the truth behind the Chanel empire is far more complicated. While Coco Chanel created the aesthetic, the myth, and the un-mistakable style, it was the Wertheimer family who built the global business machine that turned her name into a century‑spanningContinue reading “The Wertheimers vs. Chanel: Who Really Built the Empire?”