CHANEL MADEMOISELLE PRIVE BIJOUX DE DIAMANTS “SOLEIL” WATCH BY CHANEL
Pearl marquetry and diamonds mounted in 18K white Gold.
In November 1932, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel presented her first and only high jewelry collection, Bijoux de Diamants, in her 18th-century townhouse at 29 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris.
Among the roughly 50 pieces, which were inspired by the celestial floor mosaics at Aubazine Abbey where she’d lived at the Cistercian monastery’s orphanage as a child.
“I wanted to cover women with constellations. With stars! Stars of all sizes,” said Chanel, whose bijouterie, like her pioneering clothing designs, was defined by an elegant yet restrained simplicity.
The fashion house revisits the couturier’s iconic debut collection with its 1932 High Jewelry line with interstellar symbols such as the sun, the moon, and the vast beauty of the cosmos.
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