To hold yourself in an industry that perpetuates an idealised version of beauty is no easy task. To bring a meaningful sentiment of beauty into a world that thrives on a copy paste model, with its very commercialisation and security depending on it, some would say, impossible. But there are those who buck the trend, whose sense of true value overrides any sense of superficiality, to bring authenticity, no matter what the externalised forces. Charlotte Chesnais is one of those people.
We sat down with the Paris based creative director and quickly realised her approach to beauty is very much embodied in her eponymous jewellery line; a philosophy that calls for us all to slow down, to reconsider the status quo, to appreciate more than what meets the eye. To view jewellery as adornment is a beautiful notion, it asks us to honour ourselves first, before we wear the jewellery, as opposed to the other way round.
Charlotte’s approach to beauty is very much led by that same approach, that it is the inner that leads, first, before any sense of the outer that might take hold. And isn’t that an extraordinary truth – that if we can all focus on the permanence of what is inside, rather than the ephemeral outside, then together, we can redefine the very notion of beauty.
Thank you, Charlotte.
‘I’ve been hooked on Tata’s products forever; the scent is amazing and reminds me of nature.’