Checking Out: Kate Moss at the Ritz Paris
“Coco Chanel lived in the Ritz for some 30 years, even though she had an apartment nearby on the rue Cambon. She was living there when the Luftwaffe and Goering made the Ritz their headquarters in 1940. Her lover was a Nazi officer and spy, Hans Günther von Dincklage; in fact, it is alleged that she was a spy herself. Today the Ritz still maintains a Chanel suite; in the salon is a large lacquered Coromandel screen, incised with Chinese scenes and decorated with gold. Such screens were the first objects Chanel had collected when she had some money.”
