Ultra
The Ultra collection rings, composed of 18 karat white gold, diamonds, and black or white ceramic, offer an appeal to those with a love of stark contrasts and simplistic designs.

Mademoiselle
The Mademoiselle collection offers a delicate, feminine blend of colored stones, colored sapphires, freshwater pearls, and pink, yellow, or white gold. Charms, charm bracelets, necklaces, pendants, earrings, and rings make up this Chanel Jewelry collection.

Elements De Chanel
The Elements De Chanel collection offers incredibly striking pieces. These include a white gold necklace with a cascade of diamond station pendants falling from a central drop diamond and a tremendous south sea pearl ring encircled by diamonds and white gold.

Coco
The Coco collection is an exquisite collection of color and design. Florals and framed stones are part of what characterize the pieces in this collection. The colors of aquamarine, peridot, citrine, amethyst, colored sapphires, tourmalines, iolites, and creamy freshwater pearls create an interplay with gold and diamonds that offers a refreshing and feminine appeal.

Cometes
The Cometes collection is composed of sparkling, celestial pieces created from materials such as rock crystal, sapphires, platinum, white gold, and Tahitian and Japanese pearls. Rings, Earrings, brooches, necklaces and pendants in this collection are at once delicate in their design and bold in their use of diamonds.

Matilesse
The Matilesse Chanel jewelry collection offers rings, earrings, and pendants characterized by striking diagonals. Dangling diamonds and diamond shaped nuggets of white gold form the pendants and earrings, while the rings reflect the diagonal/diamond pattern in rich yellow or white gold.

Camelia
Created from Coco Chanel’s love of the exquisite perfection and spherical shape of the camelia flower, this collection brings rings, pendants, and earrings to life with gold, diamonds, and the brilliant colors of stones such as aquamarine, sapphire, tourmaline, and chocolate diamonds.

This is a timeless piece that is sure to be a favorite in your jewelry collection !

Lagerfeld first worked for Pierre Balmain (1954-57), then in 1958 he moved to House of Patou. For a while, he freelanced at Krizia. He worked for Chloe in 1959-78, during which time he began designing furs for Fendi (in 1965) and also launched his company, Parfums Lagerfeld (in 1975). Lagerfeld designed independently from 1978 to 1982, when he began designing haute couture at the House of Chanel. In 1983, with the help of Gilles du Four, he added Chanel ready-to-wear garments to his list of responsibilities.

Although he continued to design for Chanel, Lagerfeld established his own design business in 1984 and resumed designing for Chloe in 1992. The engagement with Chloe ended in 1997, when design at Chloe was took over by ex-Beatle Paul’s daugther Stella McCartney. Lagerfeld currently designs for three companies: his own label, Chanel, and furs for Fendi of Italy.

His signature line, which is developed from sketches, features very structural and dramatic women’s wear, mostly in black and white. He featured the “Wunderbra” and the “Wundercorset” in 1994.

Upper class people dominated fashion during the period from1900 to 1909. Only rich people enjoyed high fashion because the tradition of hand craftsmanship was slow, detailed work, and it was expensive. Therefore, most people could not afford trendy clothes. Rich people controlled fashion because fashion was a symbol of social status. The formal style was extraordinary, and ladies wore many clothes–for example, chemise, corset, corset cover, drawers, a flannel petticoat, and one or more cotton petticoats.

About 1908, a new style of fashion began. The concept of the new style was the natural woman’s figure. The new fashion expressed the new status of women. Women started to enter a variety of careers and new ways of living. During World War I, women took over men’s jobs, and the traditional pompous clothes disappeared. After the war, the development of fashion was influenced by the new attitude of women.

Chanel’s Childhood

Gabrielle Chanel was born in France, on August 19, 1883. The Chanel family did not have money, and they lived in a poor house in a narrow street. In the big cities of France, the industrial revolution had brought about a modern lifestyle, but the Chanels did not live in a modern city. When Gabrielle was twelve, her mother died, and her father disappeared. She had two sisters and two brothers, and she and her sisters went to an orphanage, and her brothers went to a farm and became child laborers. Gabrielle had been staying in the orphanage for six years. She was a fierce, pretty, and restless girl, and she knew that she was different from others.

The Life Work of Coco Chanel

Chanel was a woman of ambition and determination. She introduced simple, elegant, relaxed, and functional clothes that express the aspirations of women in the Twentieth Century. She borrowed ideas from men’s clothes and created clothes for modern women. In May, 1916, Chanel introduced jersey suits. A jersey is a soft and elasticated knit that was used for undergarments before she introduced her suits because its appearance and its weave were difficult to handle. Because of war time circumstances, Chanel adopted a jersey as couture fabric. The suits eliminated the waistline, and had a simplified elegance. For the first time in women’s fashion, women showed their bare ankles in the streets. People were surprised by the new style, but the revolutionary use of jersey was successful. The Chanel suits fitted in people’s lifestyle, and it was not just a trendy fashion. Chanel said, “I make fashion women can live in, breath in, feel comfortable in and look younger in.” The concept of her fashion was the antithesis of the concept of high fashion in the past. Her unique sense of fashion also guided her jewelry designs. She combined real and imitation gems. Her famous perfume, Chanel No.5, was the first designer’s brand perfume.

Chanel lost her parents when she was young, and she did not spent childhood in a rich and elegant environment. However, she escaped from poor circumstances, and she created revolutionary women’s clothes. She was an inspirational person because she broke the traditional forms of women’s clothes, and she contributed to a change in women’s sense through her clothes. We can learn something from her life. For example, we can overcome poverty, and listen to our instincts. Chanel knew that she was different from others, so it is important to believe in yourself and try hard to make your dreams come true. Chanel created basic forms of modern fashion, and many designers had inherited the basic concept of simplicity and elegance from Chanel. After she got old, she said, “I must tell you something of significance. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. The problem of fashion in 1925 was different. Women were just beginning to go to work in offices. I inspired the cutting of the hair short because it goes with the modern woman. To the woman going to work, I said to take off the bone corset, because women cannot work while they are imprisoned in a corset.”