Why Coco Chanel Fell For This Icon Of Scottish Style

Thus the Chanel tweed jacket was born, and it is impossible now to imagine a Chanel collection without one. Having been obsessed with the fabric since joining the maison in 2009, it was this legacy that Patrice Leguéreau, director of Chanel fine jewellery, wanted to draw on for his own creations, and the new Tweed de Chanel collection, as he says, “zooms in on the detail” of the fabric and celebrates its multitudinous textures and hues.

The 64-strong collection is an expansion of Chanel’s first Tweed collection, created in 2020. “I wanted to go further in the interpretation by creating a veritable fabric of precious stones that is light and supple,” Leguéreau says of his latest creations, which overlay tweed with jewelled embroideries of Chanel pillars, like the camellia flower, the lion, or the sun and stars.

Tweed’s seductively tactile warp and weft is recreated in woven metal and mixed gemstones of assorted cuts. Iridescent, soft white pearls combine with a supple tweed ribbon of white diamonds in one necklace. Hot oranges, yellows and reds intertwine to evoke Coco’s fierce and beloved lion in a statement ring.