Chanel’s symbolic colours ↳ Gold Gold, because it embraces both the genuine and the faux:

Chanel’s symbolic colours
↳ Gold

Gold, because it embraces both the genuine and the faux: the genuine gold given to Gabrielle by the Duke of Westminster, the imitation gold of the costume jewelery that she endlessly invented. Gold because of the religious relics and the clerics’ brocade robes that ornamented her childhood. Gold because of the treasures from St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, the Byzantine Empire or the baroque art that always inspired her. Gold, because it shines within the n°5 bottle, because it adorns the chain of the quilted bag and the buttons of suits. Gold because it is the triumph of Chanel. (x)