Chanel's New Haute Joaillerie Sport Collection Boasts Rare Kashmir Sapphires

Photography ANAÏCK LEJART

Styled by MARINE ARMANDIN

With its “Haute Joaillerie Sport” collection, Chanel is playing to win. The brand honors the beautifully intense experience of sports without betraying the sense of unadorned elegance long synonymous with its name. 

Constructions are audacious, incorporating flawless diamonds with impressive matrices. Dazzling ensembles of gemstones are arranged in designs that elicit synchronicity and agility. A luminous ensemble of diamonds, rare Kashmir sapphires, yellow diamonds, rubies, and onyx are expertly positioned in glamorous but playful ways that take the movement of sports literally. A white gold slider necklace featuring diamonds, red lacquer, and black and white ceramic, mimics the look and movement of a drawstring on a hoodie, while a diamond-and–white gold piece resembles a climber’s carabiner. Meanwhile, a graphic line ring exemplifies the collection’s elegant duality of restraint and freedom with its intricate structure and vivid colors. The collection also integrates other motifs that are rooted in the brand’s rich history, including a red lacquer No. 5 (in ring form), the lion and the star. 

Pieces prioritize weightlessness without compromising decadence. Despite being packed with diamonds and gemstones, items are engineered to move freely in the same vein as streamlined sportswear or a soccer player whizzing across the field. Necklaces and rings are graceful yet durable. Like the freedom and power of athletics, each creation is unbridled in its preternatural precision and artistic expression, flawless in both functionality and flair. Colors are radiant enough to altogether arrest the attention of everyone in the room. The collection cuts against sports’ archetypically restrained and lackluster imagery, asserting the chicness of bouncing back from life’s tribulations. Between their unmistakable texture and the way they glimmer under the light, these works of art will undoubtedly speak to you. They are the ultimate investment pieces — vivid embodiments of opulence, designed to eternally enhance every special occasion that arises throughout your life. 

See more from the alluring high jewelry collection below.