Haute Joaillerie: Chanel celebrates wheat, symbol of luck and abundance<

Each Haute Joaillerie collection of the French house, its symbol or its element dear to Gabrielle Chanel.The new line, presented on the sidelines of haute couture week, is no exception and features a happy symbol of the childhood of the seamstress: wheat.

Symbol of renewed wealth, abundance, luck and creativity, wheat has always been part of the life of Gabrielle Chanel, from her childhood to her adult life, so much so that she made a lucky charm.The representation of wheat was notably present in his apartment on rue Cambon, his suite in Ritz or his house in La Pausa.August 19, date of birth of Gabrielle Chanel, also coincides with the feast of the harvest.

It therefore seemed obvious for the French house to imagine a whole collection around wheat, and more exactly around the cycle of the life of wheat, from the exit of the first stems to the harvest through the formation of the ears.

Yellow sapphires, peridots, and diamonds

The "Les Blés de Chanel" collection consists of 62 pieces of high jewelry, distributed according to four chapters, all articulated around a section of wheat life.Obviously green, which evokes the first ears, and yellow, which represents the wheat golden by the sun, are very present in this collection.They result in a great use of yellow sapphires or diamonds, peridots, and yellow gold.

Several variations also offer a place of choice to white diamonds, white gold, aigues-marine, or even culture pearls of Japan or Indonesia.

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Strands, ears, wheat and harvest

As grass wheat, and therefore the beginning of spring, is immortalized through the "first strands", "spring strands" ornaments, and "strands of diamonds", made of green tourmalines, peridots, diamonds andAigues-Marines.

The ears are also the subject of many ornaments: "Epi d'Eté", "Epi Vendôme", "Solar Epi", "Epi" or "Epi Cascade", with this time a strong present presentemeralds, yellow sapphires, paraïba tourmalines, aigues-marines, and white and yellow diamonds.

Finally arrives at harvest time with several adornments in the key."Sunny harvest", "Bouquet de Moisson", and "Moisson de pearls" give pride of place to yellow sapphires, diamonds and pearls of culture."Golden harvest" mixes yellow sapphires and diamonds, with in particular a long collar in white and yellow 18K gold set with a yellow sapphire oval size of 16.8 carats, 27 diamonds marquise size of 3 carats, 329 diamonds brilliant6.7 carats, 11 yellow sapphires of 1.9 carat, and 977 yellow sapphire balls for a total weight of 477.5 carats.The "Festival of Harvests" set famous for the woven ears crowns with yellow, white and multicolored diamonds.

The theme of wheat is finally the subject of multiple variations with the pieces of Haute Joaillerie "Champ de wheat", "impression of wheat", "infinite wheat" or even "wheat legend".The diamonds mounted with yellow or white gold are in the spotlight, as evidenced by the "wheat legend" collar in white gold 18K set with a 5 carat size diamond, 12 diamonds marquise size of 10,4 carats and 839 brilliant cut diamonds of 17.6 carats.