Muslims denounce Chanel design
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Dalil Boubakeur complained that the clothes were profane. He added: 'Associating the Koran with a woman's bust is inexcusable. The Koran is sacred.' Chanel asked newspapers to stop publishing photos of a revealing dress worn by the German model Claudia Schiffer and Chanel's designer, Karl Lagerfeld, has apologised to Indonesian Muslims who were the first to complain.
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