Marion Cotillard Designs ‘Green’ Jewels for Chopard

PARIS — Chopard has taken the next step on its road to sustainability by enlisting Marion Cotillard to design its first jewels using ethically sourced colored gemstones. The Geneva-based watch and jewelry firm presented the initiative at a lunch in Paris where Cotillard joined Chopard copresident Caroline Scheufele and Livia Firth, creative director of brand consultancy Eco-Age, who has partnered with Chopard since 2013 in the framework of her Green Carpet Challenge. Cotillard was the first actress to wear items from the Green Carpet Collection on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago. The Oscar winner, who is due to unveil the bracelet and necklace she created at the next edition of the film festival in May, said it was the first time she had turned her hand to jewelry design, a process she enjoyed all the more because she got to use opal stones sourced from a family-owned mine in Australia. “You design while thinking of the people who work on extracting the stones, so it’s a totally different energy,” she told WWD. “Why should the creation of dreams and luxury turn into a nightmare for the people who are providing the raw material?” asked Cotillard, a longtime campaigner for

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