SARAFANE necklace in white gold, cultured pearls and diamonds. Her ardent passion for Dmitri gave this theme new intensity, which was further developed by her encounters with the countless artists fleeing the Russian Revolution: first Stravinsky, followed by Diaghilev, whose venture she would later support, as well as the magnetic dancers and choreographers of the Ballets Russes: Léonide Massine, Serge Lifar and Boris Kochno. The friendship she had formed three years earlier with Misia Sert, a “queen of modern Baroque, who lived her life amidst the bizarre, in mother-of-pearl, in burgao” had already, to speak in musical terms, arranged the first notes of the Slavic theme in Chanel’s life. A fallen hero from one of the wealthiest courts in Europe, he introduced her to a whole universe of motifs and designs that would reverberate powerfully in her creations. Gabrielle Chanel had known the Grand Duke since 1911 and reconnected with him in Biarritz in 1920. A figure loomed behind this change, one of elegance and discretion: the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II, who was a seductive young man with light-colored eyes. It was thus in the same year that Ernest Beaux (perfumer to the Tsars’ court) created the revolutionary N★ formula for her, that her fashions began to take on Russian accents.
For her, everything was first born from desire, the effect of encounters and passions. This is, however, to forget that she was a multifaceted being, and that she adored, as much as she did stripping away, the most flamboyant Baroque creations, lavish decorations, gold and rock crystal, Byzantium and Venice. We recognize that this process of walking through the law has caused disappointment to some of our clients.BLE MARIA brooch in yellow gold, white gold, yellow sapphire, pink spinels, Mandarin garnets, colored tourmalines and diamonds. “This is why we have rolled out a process to ask clients for whom we do not know the main residency to confirm that the items they are purchasing will not be used in Russia. In a statement sent to WWD, Chanel said “the most recent EU and Swiss sanction laws include a prohibition on the ‘sale, supply, transfer or export, directly or indirectly, of luxury goods to any natural or legal person, entity or body in Russia or for use in Russia.’ Under the applicable EU sanctions, this prohibition applies to luxury goods listed insofar as their value exceeds EUR 300 per item (CHF 300 under the CH sanctions).” Maria Zakharova, Moscow foreign ministry spokeswoman, later accused Chanel of joining “the Russophobic campaign to cancel Russia.” “This is a shock for a woman who’s been buying Chanel and Chanel Haute Couture for more than 20 years, and who sat at its shows in the front row,” she added. Russian influencer Yana Rudkovskaya, the wife of Olympic figure skating champion Alexander Plyushenko, who is said to have spent more than 1 million euros at Chanel over the years, said the ban is “somewhat humiliating.” She also claimed a manager at the store told her that, “We know you’ll be taking purchases to Russia, so we can’t sell our brand’s items.” Her Instagram account has been private since Monday.įashion show presenter Anna Kalashnikova claimed that Chanel refused to sell her earrings and a bag in Dubai because she is a Russian celebrity. “Next, the manager said that starting from today they were selling to Russians only if they sign an agreement not to wear their items in Russia,” she added. She was told that Chanel “has a new order that they only sell after I sign a piece of paper saying that I won’t wear this bag in Russia,” and she has to provide ID details and a Russian phone number. They didn’t sell me the bag because (attention!) I am from Russia,” she wrote on Instagram last Friday. “I went to a Chanel boutique in the Mall of the Emirates. Lisa Litvin, a Russian interior designer at Partners Pro, was among the first to share her in-store experience. A screenshot of Lisa Litvin’s Instagram Stories as Chanel asked her to sign a paper declaring she will not take the purchase to Russia and won’t be wearing it there.
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