When Coco Chanel launched her first haute jewellery collection in 1932, she famously stated that she wanted to “cover women in constellations”. Now, the best part of a century later, the maison is doing exactly that. Created by its Fine Jewelry Creation Studio and its late director Patrice Leguéreau, who passed away last year aged fifty-four, Chanel’s Reach for the Stars collection is centred around the fashion house’s three emblematic symbols — the comet, wings and the lion.
Interestingly, though, it is sunset’s golden hour that inspired the latest addition to Chanel Haute Joaillerie. “We wanted to create pieces of jewellery that are illuminated by the rays of the sunset and beyond, with those colours blazing across the horizon,” the creation studio said. “Capturing that magical moment between day and night when high jewellery sparkles on the skin”. Embodying that transitional moment in time, Reach for the Stars taps into the blazing colours of sunset with bright-coloured stones, as well as monochrome ones alluding to the night sky.
With a mind to Chanel’s founder’s admiration of bold American jewellery (think: multi-carat cocktail rings and diamond cascades), the Reach for the Stars collection is also a decidedly exuberant one in its designs and shapes. Between shooting-star-inspired chokers to diamond-encrusted hanging lines that sit between outstretched wings, this is a collection that has truly earned its name.
- WriterScarlett Coughlan
