Marie Teissonniere Wears Tweed de Chanel High Jewelry for Harper's Bazaar Arabia AOC Fashion

Is there any designer more synonymous with tweed than Coco Chanel? AOC shares the backstory on how Coco’s love of tweed became a signature fabric in the house, and now has been translated into high jewelry by Patrice Leguéreau, director of Chanel’s Fine Jewelry Creation Studio since 2009.

The September 2023 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia features rising model Marie Teissonniere wearing key pieces from Chanel’s Tweed high jewelry collection styled by Anna Castan. Photographer Mattia Guolo [IG] captures the fashion story ‘Total Knockout’, with its focus on new beauty products besides its new Tweed de Chanel high jewelery collection. / Hair by Jean-Luc Amarin; production by Jean-Marc Mondelet

Fast forward 100 years to the studio of Patrice Leguéreau, director of Chanel’s Fine Jewelry Creation Studio since 2009. In 2020 Leguéreau began the quest of re-creating tweed’s nubby material’s texture into a Chanel High Jewelry collection. The vision had percolated in the director’s mind since he arrived at the house.

Nubby surface pieces gradually emerged from the Chanel design studio until the summer of 2023, when the world gasped over the centerpiece of the collection — Tweed Couture necklace.

Crafted from a mix of platinum, rose gold, pink sapphires, pearls, and diamonds, the design of the high jewelry necklace is quintessentially the design manifestation of Coco Chanel’s love of tweed.