A fervent environmental activist sensitive to the Journey towards Sustainable Luxury pursued by Chopard since 2013, the Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard came up with the idea of creating a jewellery set that would embody both her style and her personal idea of responsible jewellery which reflects a fairer form of luxury that demonstrates concern for the men and women who mine raw materials. During a discussion with her friend Caroline Scheufele, she put forward her idea and asked her if Chopard could provide help from its workshops in fulfilling her goal. This led to the birth of this collection, named Ice Cube Capsule by Marion Cotillard.
Inspired by the graphic shapes and rock’n’roll spirit of Chopard’s Ice Cube collection and by the idea of ethical jewellery, Marion Cotillard designed seven Haute Joaillerie creations in Fairmined-certified ethical gold and diamonds meeting the best international criteria. Under her impetus, the Chopard Haute Joaillerie atelier thus gave life to a ring and seven earrings.
Marion Cotillard’s design notably reprises the Ice Cube collection’s graphic alignment of small faceted cubes, as well as the easy-going manner in which the jewellery can be worn solo or stacked. Renowned for its geometry, the collection is nevertheless infused with a wave of asymmetry that gives it an even more contemporary look and feel. The actress shows undeniable boldness in disrupting the aesthetic codes of traditional jewellery. Because nature does not confirm to the laws of symmetry invented by humankind, the earrings in her capsule collection are all different, complementary, and made to be worn as part of a mix and match game. One side features a series consisting of two connected gold rings to wear on top of the ear; followed by a diamond-set counterpart; and finally, on the lobe, a princess-cut solitaire diamond with a square shape recalling the small faceted cubes of the rings. The other ear features a new combination of three rings connected via the back of the ear, each set with a small diamond, then another, also set with diamond; and finally, on the lobe, a cascade of generous princess-cut diamonds, discreetly set to entirely cover the underlying gold. All these ear jewels have been designed as clips, as Marion Cotillard intends them for non-pierced ears such as her own. Completing this series of earrings to be worn solo or stacked, she has created a ring composed of two rings connected by a princess-cut solitaire diamond.
