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Verdura: The Image-Maker and His Women of Style

  • Greenwich Antiques Society Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive Greenwich, CT (map)

COCO CHANEL'S ORIGINAL “MALTESE CROSS” CUFFS

VERDURA for Chanel, circa 1935

Verdura Museum Collection

Silver and ivory colored enamel hinged cuffs set with gold “Maltese Cross” elements, precious and semi-precious stones.

Fulco di Verdura poses with Coco Chanel while admiring the Maltese Cross cuffs he designed for her. Paris,1937. Copyright Boris Lipnitzki/Roger Viollet

Earlier Event: March 3
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