<p>The place of community involvement in her business model contributed in making Anne-Marie Chagnon the Montreal's YWCA 2015 Woman of Distinction in the Entrepreneurship category. True story - the YWCA asked her in 2011 to create an exclusive jewellery for them, the prize awarded to the laureates. Anne-Marie Chagnon received as an award the jewellery she had created!</p>

<p>For the artist, peer recognition among the most touching come from Iris Apfel and Nathalie Bondil.</p>

<p>The first occurred when the fashion and style living legend selected Anne-Marie Chagnon's creations herself, to be included in the collection of artwork sold at the Peabody Essex Museum.</p>

<p>The second came in 2015, year marking Anne-Marie Chagnon's twenty years of creation. The Director and Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts accepted to preface her <em>Retrospective: 20 years of bejewelled history</em> exhibition, offering the artist a precious gift.</p>