New High-Jewellery Collection Recalls Young Coco Chanel's Love Affair

A notable mention goes to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, with whom Chanel had an affair and subsequently fell in love with all things Russian Like every high-jewellery collection since 2009, Le Paris Russe de Chanel was designed by Patrice Leguéreau, director of the house's jewellery studio, Chanel Joaillerie The collection is inspired by a "Fantasy" vision of Imperial Russia that Chanel could have imagined based on what her Russian lover and friends told her.

To add cohesion, Leguéreau peppered the collection with signature Chanel motifs, such as sheaves of wheat or the camellia, which appear in figurative and abstracted forms Many pieces in the Le Paris Russe de Chanel collection are transformable, illustrating the jewellery house's highly inventive skills in producing pieces that could magically be taken apart and then reassembled differently A century later, Chanel Joaillerie has become a pillar among France's grand jewellery houses.

Today, Le Paris Russe de Chanel lives up tothe late designer's reputation, showing how irreverent aspects of Chanel's personality and lifestyle continue to mesmerise, captivate andenrich the world of high jewellery. . Source