1995 Vintage Chanel Earrings Cruise CC Goossens Enamel Black Ivory Gold Plated Clip Pair Poker Chips - 2 Pieces

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The most desired label in the world. These gold plated pair of earrings from the Chanel 1995 Cruise Collection by … more The most desired label in the world. These gold plated pair of earrings from the Chanel 1995 Cruise Collection by Karl Lagerfeld, feature black & ivory colored enamelled circular discs with iconic interlocking CC logo centre, Mimicking antique ivory poker chips.

signed on reverse. ©Chanel® 95 CC C, Made in France
Gold plated and enamel in black and ivory color
Measures: 1 inch x 1 inch

The legendary Coco Chanel was a champion of costume jewellery mixing fine and costume pieces together. She was one of the most influential fashion icons of all time. During a very brief career as a cabaret singer, Chanel performed in clubs in Vichy and Moulins where she was nicknamed “Coco.”
Chanel jewellery is generally bold in design, gold or silver plated with distinctive colouring. Her iconic CC's seen on so many of her creations was an interpretation of a stained glass window in the Aubazine Abbey, Correze, in France where she spent her early years in the orphanage at Aubazin.

By 1995 good taste, which had always been associated with the house of Chanel, was no longer an immutable quality. Karl Lagerfeld liked it that way. No one seemed to enjoy pushing good taste to the edge of bad more, and he had a field day with this push and pull at his fall 1995 show. Models, teetering on Frederick’s of Hollywood–style platform sandals with spike heels, wore deconstructions of the classics. Abbreviated-midriff baring jackets weren’t all that shocking, but skirts with slits and zips designed to reveal matching tweed panties were piquant. Cheekier still were the bedazzled bras and thongs worn as bikinis or under fine black knits that hardly inhibited their sparkle. Corselet-like inserts on suits and as waistbands on skirts further played on the lingerie theme.

That Lagerfeld was playing a game was suggested by his use of synthetics. Double C’s were appliquéd on clear totes; cellophane was used as a headdress; and a maxi-size Chanel bag, the pièce de résistance, was made of Astroturf. less