Chanel reveals its sporting colors with a daring excessive jewelry assortment

Gabrielle Chanel redrew the parameters of ladies’s dressing along with her embrace of sudden materials and silhouettes. Bodily lively (she rode horses, skied, and performed tennis and golf), she translated her love of sport into her clothes, introducing an ease of motion, with supplies equivalent to jersey, which prefaced the opening of her first sport atelier in 1921.

Patrice Leguéreau, director of Chanel’s Positive Jewelry Creation Studio, nods to this championing of easy-to-wear, streamlined silhouettes within the design of the model’s new excessive jewelry assortment, Haute Joaillerie Sport. Impressed by Gabrielle’s research of how sportswear is worn near the physique, right here Leguéreau’s supple jewelry eschews a restrictive match, designed as a substitute to freely drape. As with the garments, right here, too, we see an sudden mixture of supplies woven all through, from lusciously mild aluminium to carbon fibre and lacquer in black, crimson and blue, in a mirroring of the daring colors of the valuable stones.

Haute Joaillerie Sport

These vibrant gem stones illustrate a few of Gabrielle’s favorite motifs, together with the lion and the star. Elsewhere, distinctive Chanel design particulars are considerable, from a carabiner within the form of the quantity ‘5’ to the swivel clasp synonymous with the ‘2.55’ bag, right here given a jewelry spin, as is the common-or-garden sports activities twine, which turns into a tube chain dangling from a lattice of diamonds. The acquainted Chanel quilting, in the meantime, pays tribute to the versatile nature of hard-working sports activities materials, taking the type of a fluid mesh.