High Fashion, 1970

Les Lalanne, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne, in their french studio 1980

 

High Fashion

In France a artistic couple was able to take the art of making jewelry a bit higher…

Les Lalanne is the name for a artist couple who happen to be a husband and wife team. The Husband, François-Xavier, likes to sculpt animals while the wife Claude Lalanne has a passion for the plant.

 

Les Lalanne

 

In 1970, Claude would sculpt a beautiful piece of jewelry as a necklace set in bronze of a single leaf from nature. Making this jewelry high fashion, the leaf just happened to be cannabis…

The title for her beautiful piece of high fashion, ‘Collier Cannabis’.

‘Collier Cannabis’ necklace from 1970

In 2016 Claude reintroduced her design of Collier Cannabis at a art show in New York City to a new generation of red eyes…

This new Collier Cannabis necklace would reflect the eye’s at the opening, in a copper shade…

Collier Cannabis necklace from 2016