A love affair in the Scottish Highlands led to the creation of Chanel’s signature tweed fabric, which now comes in high jewellery form.
The fabric now takes on a whole new level of “haute” as Chanel arrives in London this week to unveilinterpretation of its signature material woven in precious metals and gemstones.
The centrepiece of the collection, the Tweed Royal necklace, an intricate and transformable weave of gold, diamonds and rubies. London plays host to the collection’s unveiling in honour of Coco’s lifelong love of Britain and the origins of her famous tweed. She first discovered the robust, nubby fabric in Scotland, during her decade-long love affair with Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. The couple first met in 1923 in Monte Carlo, and it wasn’t long before she was regularly spending time with him and his circle of aristocratic friends at his enormous estate in the Scottish Highlands.
Winston Churchill was one such friend. “Coco fishes from morn till night,” he wrote to his wife Clementine in October 1927, giving just a hint of the fashion designer’s formidable character. “She is very agreeable – really a great and strong being fit to rule a man or an Empire.” Coco Chanel, wearing one of the Duke of Westminster’s tweed hunting jackets, in the Scottish Highlands in 1924.
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