French luxurious trend model CHANEL has unveiled its latest excessive jewelry assortment – impressed by none apart from tweed.
Launched at London’s Royal Horticultural Halls, the dazzling array is influenced by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s love for tweed. The model’s historical past with the material goes so far as the Twenties. Because the story goes, she borrowed tweed jackets from the Duke of Westminster, her then-lover, and refined the fabric into her collections.
In 2020, tweed made its CHANEL jewelry debut by the hands of Patrice Leguéreau. Director of the Chanel Advantageous Jewellery Creation Studio, that is Leguéreau’s second – and newest – tweed assortment that includes 63 new excessive jewelry items.
The brand new assortment contains 5 tweed jewelry weaves; in 5 colors and icons beloved by Gabrielle Chanel. The items reference a number of icons of the style home, comparable to a ribbon, camellia, comet, solar, and lion, separated by chapter.
Throughout the gathering, valuable stones and gems merge with several types of gold to create delicate, distinctive jewelry. On the jaw-dropping centre of it’s the Tweed Royal necklace, a part of the Tweed Lion chapter.
The resplendent necklace consists of 37 rubies inside a gold woven chain, with a diamond-encrusted lion’s head that may be separated and worn as a brooch. A ten.17-carat D Flawless pear-cut white diamond can be cleverly designed to be detachable and worn as a hoop.
The excessive jewelry launch coincides with V&A’s Chanel retrospective launch – Gabrielle Chanel. Chanel Manifesto. The exhibition takes a deep dive into Chanel’s affect on this planet of jewelry and wonder, alongside together with her deep-rooted affect in the direction of trend.
