The New Chanel Neck Charm To Covet

First Celine, now Chanel has expanded the jewellery its bourgeois women should have in their arsenal to include teeny tiny fragrance bottles strung off gold chains. Kaia Gerber walked the Métiers d’Arts show with a miniature Chanel No.5 bottle hanging from her neck. Magpies shifted in their seats within the Sofia Coppola-designed Grand Palais setting to see what the petit charm etched with the house’s interlocking Cs was. Perfectly formed and entirely covetable, the trinket has the same appeal as the storied scent itself. It marks an entry point to Chanel’s luxury universe and one you can imagine being passed down through generations.

Jewellery played a major part in adorning the (bare) midriffs of models elsewhere in the line-up. Fellow super-in-the-making Gigi Hadid wore the next decade’s iteration of the Chanel bouclé skirt suit: worn low on the hips with a jacket cropped like a bolero and nothing underneath. Leather woven chains and strings of pearls stacked up Hadid’s torso, while necklaces laden with charms abounded up top. It was flashy, but worn in the eclectic, bohemian way of many of Chanel’s inner circle: Kristen Stewart, for instance, who posed for pictures on the front row next to Lily-Rose Depp.

“I always question the context, which has nothing to do with the way we lived decades ago: what would a woman like today? How would she wear it?” creative director Virginie Viard said of appropriating the vast house archives for her own chapter succeeding Karl Lagerfeld. Today’s woman has a penchant for cult accessories, whether that’s the pint-sized quilted bags, the golden birdcage minaudière reminiscent of the one in the 1991 Chanel No.5 ad, or the micro perfume vial necklace itself. Just try and resist the attention to detail, from the single pearl on the bottle neck to the diamanté encrusted logo – we dare you!