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In 1956, Audrey Hepburn wore a pair of Cartier’s Grain de Café earrings on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. As the name suggests, the earrings were inspired by an actual coffee bean—as were all pieces from the Grain de Café collection, which originally launched in 1938 under the creative direction of Jeanne Toussaint. Toussaint believed in finding beauty in the unexpected, so she looked to the humble coffee bean, a product of nature not typically immortalized in gold.
Bazaar’s Samira Nasr with Sarah Hoover and Nicola Vassell.
Guests at the Cartier x Bazaar Grain de Café dinner at Cartier’s New York mansion.
The most recent Grain de Café collection.
While the refined bean was often worn in the ’50s and ’60s—not just by Hepburn but by Grace Kelly—the motif is finally back in a new Grain de Café collection for 2022. Cartier celebrated the motif’s return with a dinner held with Harper’s Bazaar at the Fifth Avenue Cartier mansion. Bazaar‘s Editor-in-Chief Sami Nasr and Cartier’s chief marketing office of Cartier North America, Andra Mielnicki, were the evening’s hosts with a guest list that included Laila Gohar, Romy Soleimani, June Ambrose, Noor Tagouri, Sarah Hoover, and Nicole Vassell.
The first course of scallops at the Cartier x Bazaar Coffee bean dinner.
Guests enjoying the second course of the Cartier xBazaar Coffee bean dinner.
Guest Noor Tagouri at dinner.
The theme of the evening was unexpected beauty with a very fitting three-course meal. The first course was titled “The Ordinary Turned Precious”: natural double scallop shells with seared celery roit and truffle purée. The second was “A Toussaint Taste”: a wild mushroom and herb still life on risotto. And the final was “An Iconic Motif”: Cafe des Delices chocolate cake with blackberries and pomegranates. Espresso martinis were of course flowing as Endea Owens and The Cookout played songs like “Where the Nubians Grow” and “Feel Good.”
Guest Laila Gohar at dinner.
Endea Owens and The Cookout performing at the Cartier xBazaar Coffee bean dinner.
Exclusively available at the New York City mansion, the Grain de Café collection features three rings, a bracelet, and two necklaces—all opulent reminders that the most exquisite beauty is often something that sits between the ordinary and the precious.
Tara Gonzalez is the Senior Fashion Editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Previously, she was the style writer at InStylefounding commerce editor at Glamour, and fashion editor at Coveter.
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