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☆ How Chanel No. 5 Became a Necklace
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Lindsay Talbot | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In 1920, following the successful launch of her couture house in Biarritz, France, and her subsequent move to Paris’s Rue Cambon, where she opened her flagship boutique, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel decided to create her first fragrance. She commissioned the French Russian perfumer Ernest Beaux to develop “a woman’s perfume, with a woman’s scent” — which, unlike most single-note options of the era, had a bold floral composition. Months later, he presented Chanel with an array of aromatic vials, and she chose the one labeled five. The bottle was topped with a square glass stopper with two interlocking sans-serif C’s, marking the debut of Chanel’s now-iconic logo. In 1924, the stopper was redesigned as a bevel-cut octagon, but it has otherwise remained largely the same for the past century.
Persons: Gabrielle “ Coco ” Chanel, Ernest Beaux, Chanel, Beaux, “, men’s toiletries, —, Boy Capel Locations: Biarritz, France, Russian, Grasse, Madagascar, Brazilian, —, Chanel’s
☆ A Cartier Ring Inspired by the Work of a 20th-Century Style Icon
  + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Lindsay Talbot | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In 1847, Louis-François Cartier opened a modest jewelry workshop in Paris where he sold crystal bracelets, strands of pearls and brooches with floral motifs. In 1914, Louis Cartier met Jeanne Toussaint, the Belgian French style icon who would become his muse and rumored lover. Often immaculately dressed in her signature turban and silk pajamas, she captivated Cartier, who recruited her to oversee the house’s handbags and silver accessories. When Toussaint was appointed the creative director of the brand’s jewelry department in 1933, she, too, found unlikely inspiration in utilitarian objects: gas hoses, bolts and even handcuffs. Now, Cartier is revisiting Toussaint’s archival designs in the form of a ring topped with an 8.92-carat cabochon-cut emerald encircled by rounded onyx, diamonds and turquoise accents.
Persons: Louis, François Cartier, Louis Cartier, Santos pilot’s, Jeanne Toussaint, immaculately, Cartier, Toussaint, Elise Lebaindre Locations: Paris, Brazilian, Belgian French
☆ How Hermès Turned a Dog Collar Into a Bag
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Lindsay Talbot | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In 1821, a 20-year-old innkeeper’s son named Thierry Hermès, who grew up in the German textile town of Krefeld, moved to France’s Normandy region and apprenticed as a saddler. Eleven years later, he opened his own workshop in Paris, where he sold harnesses, bridles and saddles crafted with a stitch that can only be done by hand. After the advent of the automobile, Thierry’s grandson Émile-Maurice Hermès expanded the company’s offerings to include driving accessories and luggage trunks, as well as clocks and wristwatches with leather casings and straps. In 1923, the house even introduced a collection of dog collars, which were elaborately decorated with leather studs, metal looped rings and fringed trimmings. They became so popular that women began wearing them as belts; as the story goes, the French couturier Marie Callot Gerber, whose dogs wore the collars, commissioned Hermès to reinterpret them as wrist cuffs.
Persons: Thierry Hermès, Émile, Maurice Hermès, Marie Callot Gerber, Hermès Locations: Krefeld, Normandy, Paris
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