Blé means ear of wheat in French. Today we all know that Gabrielle Chanel grew up as an orphan at the Obasin Monastery, but she also had a brief and happy childhood, abandoning her father after her mother's death and calling her "my good ear of wheat". As an adult Chanel, in her apartment, was full of the elements of wheat ears: there was always a handful of wheat ears in the vase, which changed every day; the furniture was decorated with wheat ears; the gold ears of wheat were painted on the ridges of selected books; the portraits painted by Dalí for her, and the ears of wheat could not be absent... In her life, the ear of wheat has a talisman-like meaning, so much so that it is natural to use the ear of wheat as the theme of Chanel's fine jewelry collection.
There are 62 new works in the series, 43 of which arrived in Shanghai this time, and the rest were sold at the time of the exhibition in Paris. The jewelry that seems to be brilliant in each other is actually haunting the main line: the growth process of the ears of wheat, which follows the cycle of the four seasons.
For example, "Premiers Brins", "Brins de Printemps" and "Brins de Diamants" symbolize the ears of wheat in spring, and the crystal clear beauty of diamonds, peridots, crystals and aquamarines reminds people of light and tender foliage. "Moisson d'Or", "Moisson Ensoleillée", "Bouquet de Moisson" and "Moisson de Perles" create a harvest scene of diamonds, yellow sapphires and pearls, which are brilliant summer ears of wheat. The treatment of the marquise cut is ubiquitous, because this is the most direct response to the basic shape of the ear of wheat. Classic elements such as camellias, comets, lions, Maltese crosses and the sun are by no means absent, and together they create a wonderful and incomparable illusion.
Inside and outside the exhibition hall, there is a bush of wheat like a harvest of rice fields, and a high-tech mirror cloth is suspended for unlimited extension, and it is reported that the ears of wheat are inserted by hand, and the entire exhibition takes two months. It is a pity that such a rare exhibition is not open to the public.