In addition to black and white, tweed suits and jersey dresses that leave women free to move, jewelry features prominently in the rich imagery linked to Gabrielle Chanel.
She adored the fancy long necklaces and cuffs that she piled up around her neck and wrists.
"We talk less about it, but she also had a lot of 'real' jewelry
," says Patrice Leguéreau, director of the Chanel jewelry design studio, who designed a high jewelry capsule reflecting Coco's taste for colorful, voluminous and adapted models. daily.
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This inclination probably comes from her romance with the second Duke of Westminster, one of the richest men in the world.
She met him in the early 1920s in Monte Carlo, where he moored his boat, the
Flying Cloud
.
Their fiery relationship will last ten years.
The man loves without counting, but is also fickle.
He covers her with gifts as much to show his feelings as to be forgiven...
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