Key appointments: Marie-Laure Cérède leaves Cartier to become creative director of Chanel jewellery
The designer will take over the role held for 15 years by Patrice Leguéreau, who passed away in 2024
Marie-Laure Cérède has been appointed head of Chanel’s jewellery division, a role she will officially take up this coming October. The designer will oversee jewellery and fine jewellery, working between the Paris and Geneva ateliers, and will report to Frédéric Grangié, president of the maison’s Watches & Fine Jewellery division.
The appointment comes some 18 months after the untimely death of Patrice Leguéreau in November 2024, who had served as creative director of Chanel jewellery since 2009.
“I am honoured and moved to be joining Chanel, a fashion house of remarkable strength and exceptional discipline that continues to challenge conventions, redefine femininity and express modernity through form and spirit,” said Marie-Laure Cérède in a statement. “I can’t wait to meet the teams and write a new chapter together.”
“We are delighted to welcome Marie-Laure Cérède to Chanel,” said Frédéric Grangié. “Her approach to creativity—as a delicate balance between heritage, emotion, boldness and restraint—will bring a fresh perspective to the codes that define our creations. Marie-Laure’s imagination and her deep knowledge of craftsmanship and gemmology will take Chanel in new, exciting directions.”
Marie-Laure Cérède, a graduate of the ESCP Europe business school, began her career at Cartier before joining Harry Winston, a brand within the Swatch Group, in 2002 as creative director of jewellery and watches. In 2016, she returned to Cartier as creative director of jewellery and watches. The high jewellery division of the Richemont Group’s flagship house has, since 2006, been led by Jacqueline Karachi-Langane.
