Chanel's Latest High Jewellery Collection Takes Inspiration From Russia

Imagination can be stronger than reality and that certainly was the case for the legendary Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel "The Russians fascinate me," Chanel once said to her friend, French author Paul Morand He and her other artistic Russian friends are credited for having introduced Chanel to a new universe and motifs that would permeate her design language.

This part of Chanel's life was the starting point for Patrice Leguéreau, director of Chanel's jewellery studio, to create the 69-piece collection called Le Paris Russe de Chanel Apart from delving into Chanel's personal history and the maison's archives, Leguéreau also made it a point to visit Russia-he went two times in different seasons, summer and winter Chanel may be seen as a "Rigorous modernist" but as this and the previous Coromandel high jewellery collection shows, she is first and foremost a multi-faceted person who is attracted to a variety of eras, cultures, and most of all, people.

Apart from the prominent inclusion of eagles, other codes from the house such as the sun and ear of wheat are also elegantly interwoven into the pieces of the Le Paris Russe de Chanel high jewellery collection. . Source