Plumes de Chanel Singapore Preview

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Fine jewelry collectors and appreciators were given an exclusive preview of Chanel‘s latest haute joaillerie collection at a gala dinner last week. A long-running motif in the house’s history, the plume has been reinterpreted this season for a precious clutch of nearly thirty new ornithological creations spun from white diamonds, pink sapphires, orange Padparadscha sapphires, lime pearls and black diamonds.

Guests were treated to a candlelit display of the finely wrought jewelry, exhibited in giant lucite birdcages and scattered along an imposing table awash with soft white feathers. Suspended above a sea of white, the exquisite cuffs, earrings and necklaces scintillated with precious stones, inlaid in a sturdy honeycomb openwork that spoke of the house’s artisanal mastery.

In line with the theme of flight, the show was followed by a sumptuous dinner and a moving performance of Swan Lake by Russian ballet dancers, a most fitting end to the freedom and transcendent beauty of this year’s collection.

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Dimple Aswani

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Yvonne Ng, Emily Hwang

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Chiang Yu Lan, Diana Widjaja

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Diana Widjaja

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Christine Kung

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Raymond Tan, Chia Wee Sheng, Ang Woon Yeok

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Ong Bee Ling

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Sally Djuhar, Sharmaine Han

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Chiang Yu Lan, Sally Djuhar, Diana Widjaja

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Yvonne Ng, Emily Hwang, Shirley Ten, Christine Kung