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CHANEL

“In the past, jewellery came from a drawing. (…) My jewellery came from an idea! I wanted to cover women in constellations. Stars! Stars of all sizes to sparkle in the hair, fringes, crescent moons. See these comets where the head glitters on a shoulder and the sparkling tail slips behind the shoulders to fall back down in a shower of stars on the chest...” Response to an Interview «Le luxe de Paris contre le chômage» in L’Intransigeant of October 26, 1932, Gabrielle Chanel.

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