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By Chanel
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Chanel - Golden metal brooch shaped as a safety pin.
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By Chanel
Located in Pasadena, CA
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By Chanel
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By Chanel
Located in Nice, FR
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Chanel Large Gold Tone Rue Cambon Brooch
By Chanel
Located in Paris, FR
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Located in San Diego, CA
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Chanel Vintage Safety Pin Brooch
Located in San Diego, CA
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By Chanel
Located in Zürich, CH
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Chanel brooch 'safety pin' Haute Couture
By Chanel
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
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Chanel Silver CC Fuchsia Crystal Safety Pin
By Chanel
Located in Pasadena, CA
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Chanel Silver Rhinestone Double Dual Chain Evening Safety Pin Brooch
By Chanel
Located in Charlotte, NC
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By Chanel
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Chanel Silver Rhinestone Double Safety Chain Charm Pin Brooch in Box
By Chanel
Located in Charlotte, NC
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By Chanel
Located in Pasadena, CA
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Chanel Lion Head Safety Pin Brooch, Maison Goossens
Located in Riverdale, NY
Coco Chanel synthesizes her favorite "Go To" motifs into one brooch. The lion (her Astrological sign), the Kilt Pin (her visits to the Scottish Highlands) and the gilt Baroque of her...
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Chanel Black Gold Resin Glitter Chanel No. 5 Parfum Brooch Pin
By Chanel
Located in Rome, Rome
Black resin accented with gold metal glitter. Safety pin closure. 'Chanel - U21 CC K - Made in France' oval hallmark on the back.
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Chanel Silver Metal Clear Black Crystals Square Brooch Pin
By Chanel
Located in Rome, Rome
Small CC - CHANEL logos on corners. Safety pin closure. Measurements (HxL) 2 x 2 inches - 5.1 x 5.1 cm.
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Chanel Jewelled Ruthenium Crescent Moon Brooch
By Chanel
Located in London, England
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Chanel Safety Pin Coco Brooch Pin
By Chanel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Chanel gold tone and rhinestone coco safety pin .
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Chanel Gold Large Safety Pin
By Chanel
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Located in Nice, FR
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2001s Chanel Coco Strass and Gold Tone Brooch Safety Pin
By Chanel
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Chanel Silver Rhinestone CC Charm Safety Pin Brooch in Box
By Chanel
Located in Charlotte, NC
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2019 Chanel A19K CC Logo Star Clover Pearl Charm Safety Pin Brooch
By Chanel
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Chanel Lion Head Safety Pin Brooch, Maison Goossens
Located in New York, NY
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Chanel Vintage White Silk Flower Pin Brooch Camelia Camellia
By Chanel
Located in Rome, Rome
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Chanel Gold Rhinestone CC Safety Pin Brooch
By Chanel
Located in Irvine, CA
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Chanel Safety Pin with Charms
By Chanel
Located in New York, NY
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By Chanel
Located in Litchfield County, CT
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By Chanel
Located in Hamburg, Deutschland
Chanel quilted wrap skirt in brown with CC safety pin.
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By Chanel
Located in Westlake Village, CA
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Chanel Safety Pin For Sale on 1stDibs
Find the exact chanel safety pin you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of Gilt Metal and Bronze, this item was constructed with great care. In our selection of items, you can find a vintage example as well as a contemporary version. If you’re looking for a chanel safety pin from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. Finding an appealing chanel safety pin — no matter the origin — is easy, but Chanel each produced a popular version that is worth a look. When shopping for a chanel safety pin, you’ll find that there are less available pieces for unisex or men today than there are for women.
How Much is a Chanel Safety Pin?
Prices for a chanel safety pin can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, these accessories begin at $355 and can go as high as $3,650, while this accessory, on average, fetches $876.
Chanel for sale on 1stDibs
In the years following the opening of her modest millinery shop, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel became a pivotal designer of both fashionable casual wear and Paris haute couture as well as an icon and arbiter of 20th-century style with her bob haircut and pearls. Today vintage Chanel handbags, jackets and evening dresses are among the most sought-after clothing and accessories for fashion lovers all over the world.
The first Chanel shop was established in 1910 in Paris on rue Cambon by the young milliner Gabrielle Chanel (1883–1971), who had picked up the nickname “Coco” while working as a club singer. The boutique drew the attention of the Parisian fashion elite who popularized her wide-brimmed Chanel Modes hats. Soon she added a sportswear store in the Normandy resort town of Deauville, where Coco set the tone for her defining sense of style — traditionally masculine garments reimagined for feminine shapes, made from simple jersey fabric.
Effortless and elegant, Chanel's designs promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by complicated layers of fabric and cumbersome corsets. She followed this success with a couture house, opened in 1915 in Biarritz.
But Chanel was not born into a life of glamour. Following the death of her mother, her father left her in an orphanage where she lived until the age of 18. It was there that she learned to sew as well as appreciate the classic pairing of black and white as worn by the nuns.
In 1926, Chanel introduced her first little black dress, reclaiming a color that had once been reserved for mourning and working-class women. That same decade, she debuted her perfume, Chanel No. 5, as well as the Chanel suit with a fitted skirt, inspired by the boxy lines of men’s clothing and employing a sporty tweed.
Chanel closed her fashion operations during World War II, then returned to the industry in 1954 to design for the functional needs of modern women.
Structure and wearability endured in all of Chanel’s clothing and accessories, like the quilted leather 2.55 handbag — a 1955 update of a 1920s-era design — with its gold-chain shoulder strap that freed up a woman’s hands. The 1957 two-tone slingback pumps had a practical heel height while offering a bold statement in the black tip of the shoes. Her collarless jacket reacted against the constricting styles of Christian Dior's New Look, replacing them with a design that was timeless, an instant classic.
After Coco Chanel died in 1971, the brand underwent several changes in leadership, including fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who took over as artistic director in 1983. His collections for Chanel displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. Lagerfeld revived Chanel ballet flats and thoroughly embraced the classic logo's interlocking CCs, which took the form of a clasp featured on so many of the rare Chanel bags that are much sought after today.
Vintage Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel dresses, coats and other clothing of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s riffed on its iconography, accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment. And as the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers, vintage Chanel bags of the 1990s are among the most prized of the brand’s offerings.
Over the years, the company has continued to innovate, such as expanding into ready-to-wear fashion in 1978 and, in 2002, establishing a subsidiary company — Paraffection — dedicated to preserving the heritage skills of fashion artisan workshops. The House of Chanel still operates its flagship on rue Cambon in Paris, where it all began.
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Finding the Right Brooches for You
Vintage brooches, which refer to decorative jewelry traditionally pinned to garments and used to fasten pieces of clothing together where needed, have seen increasing popularity in recent years.
While jewelry trends come and go, brooches are indeed back on the radar thanks to fashion houses like Gucci, Versace, Dior and Saint Laurent, all of which feature fun pinnable designs in their current collections. Whether a dazzlingly naturalistic Art Nouveau dragonfly, a whimsical David Webb animal, a gem-studded bloom or a streamlined abstract design, these jewels add color and sparkle to your look and a spring to your step.
Given their long history, brooches have expectedly taken on a variety of different shapes and forms over time, with jewelers turning to assorted methods of ornamentation for these accessories, including enameling and the integration of pearls and gemstones. Cameo brooches that originated during the Victorian age are characterized by a shell carved in raised relief that feature portraits of a woman’s profile, while 19th-century micromosaic brooches, comprising innumerable individually placed glass fragments, sometimes feature miniature depictions of a pastoral scene in daily Roman life.
At one time, brooches were symbols of wealth, made primarily from the finest metals and showcasing exquisite precious gemstones. Today, these jewels are inclusive and universal, and you don’t have to travel very far to find an admirer of brooches. They can be richly geometric in form, such as the ornate diamond pins dating from the Art Deco era, or designer-specific, such as the celebrated naturalistic works created by Tiffany & Co., the milk glass and gold confections crafted by Trifari or handmade vintage Chanel brooches of silk or laminated sheer fabric. Chanel, of course, has never abandoned this style, producing gorgeously baroque CC examples since the 1980s.
Brooches are versatile and adaptable. These decorative accessories can be worn in your hair, on hats, scarves and on the lower point of V-neck clothing. Pin a dazzling brooch to the lapel of your blazer-and-tee combo or add a cluster of smaller pins to your overcoat. And while brooches have their place in “mourning jewelry,” in that a mourning brooch is representative of your connection to a lost loved one, they’re widely seen as romantic and symbolic of love, so much so that a hardcore brooch enthusiast might advocate for brooches to be worn over the heart.
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