Jewellery as supple as fabric
Tweed de Chanel high jewellery collection pays homage to the fashion house's iconic material, tweed.
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IT'S sort of a funny thing: In the 1920s, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel fell in love with tweed after she borrowed the sportswear of her boyfriend, Hugh Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, and found it to be more comfortable than anything she'd ever worn in womenswear.
She soon made tweed the fabric associated with her namesake fashion house Chanel. And, since then, many female icons from Jackie Kennedy to Amal Clooney have been seen sporting Chanel's tweed skirt-suit - often dubbed "Chanel's uniform" - as a symbol of women's power.
In the fickle world of fashion, Chanel's tweed two-piece has endured almost effortlessly into the present era.
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