PARIS — With 27 reveals, two shows and 7 superior jewelry houses on the official schedule, the July version of Paris Couture 7 days kicking off Monday is hunting as effervescent as a contemporary glass of Champagne.
It’ll be a 7 days of celebrations with Iris van Herpen marking 15 decades mining the boundary concerning craftsmanship and significant technological innovation with a “mixed reality” fashion display Giambattista Valli reflecting on his initially decade in haute couture on the runway, and the hotly expected one particular-off Jean Paul Gaultier x Olivier Rousteing job.
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As for the substantial jewelry displays, below are 5 sparkling times to look ahead to.
Into the Stars
Floating in the immensity of the Grand Palais Éphémère is Chanel’s “1932” assortment, which marks the 90th anniversary of Bijoux de Diamants, the initial and only superior jewelry developed by Coco Chanel herself.
These 77 models imagined by jewellery generation studio director Patrice Leguéreau are revealed alongside reedited variations of the primary layouts, painstakingly recreated through the frame-by-body assessment of the sole film capturing the first exhibition.
“It’s a gorgeous style workout to really understand the origins of the ‘1932’ selection. It’s appealing to be equipped to confront these reeditions and the new edition,” he reported, pointing out how technical execution, new proportions and various spirit “transmitted a distinct emotion.”
For visitor of honor Marion Cotillard, who appeared in her possess cosmic journey as confront of the house’s No.5 fragrance, the exhibition was “like penetrating inside the moon,” she stated soon after touring the starlit exhibit, which involves the Allure Céleste necklace and its 55.55-carat sapphire and the Comète Volute with a 19.32-carat diamond.
“It’s scarce to be touched and marvel at all the things you see,” she reported. “There are points that are daring: the way [Leguéreau] de-structured the solar is putting, how he played with the moon and its phases, or the minor touches of wit like a room rocket or satellite — you can experience he totally appreciated himself,” claimed the actress.
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Into the Wild
Boucheron will be unveiling the “Ailleurs” significant jewelry collection as portion of the carte blanche moment the place artistic director Claire Choisne is specified full inventive freedom to investigate materials.
Guiding this five-chapter imaginary voyage, triggered when the 1st lockdown pressed pause on motion and vacation, was her desire to expose the beauty of character. “We took the liberty of mixing universes and supplies — important or not simply because they’re all beautiful — that everything opposes in basic principle,” she explained to WWD before this yr.
Expect novel creations, this sort of as the Octopus single earring that includes 178 mom-of-pearl pastilles and 443 fantastic-slice diamonds, created to be part tattoo, section sea creature curled about the wearer’s ear.
Into the Waves
With the “Végétal — L’École de la Beauté exhibition,” curated by botanist Marc Jeanson, Chaumet explores the marvels of the all-natural entire world that have encouraged jewelers since situations immemorial.
From flowers pressed into the coffin of Pharaoh Ramses the Second much more than 3,000 yrs ago to a pixel-ized flower witnessed in preferred racing simulation Mario Kart, website visitors will have a industry working day with 400 items from Chaumet but also from 80 other folks, which include popular jewelry residences and institutions — a rare feat for an exhibition organized by a home.
“Beauty does not belong to anybody. It’s essential to be very pleased of what the home has and will carry out but to also appear all close to ourselves simply because it enriches [us],” claimed Chaumet chief executive officer Jean-Marc Mansvelt.
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With eyes firmly on the horizon, the dwelling will current this week “Ondes et Merveilles,” a selection that owes its identify to a play on a French idiom that approximately translates to promising the earth and in this article reinterpreted to converse about watery marvels.
Even though the shape of h2o will be a person topic, there will be witty wonders like brooches with a nautical concept, necklaces nodding to undulations of sirens and a established with gems in contrasting hues of blue, environmentally friendly and orange named right after the Gulf Stream, the warm-drinking water present that starts off in Florida and traverses the Atlantic to Europe’s shores.
Into the Museum
Obtaining a layout enter the long lasting selection of Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs is recognition for any jeweler, but Taiwan-born, U.S.-educated jeweler Anna Hu is not about to relaxation on those laurels, or instead, roses.
In addition to the Eglantine Da Vinci brooch and the other 34 pieces she offered final month at the TEFAF Maastricht art good, she will unveil a even further 35 parts that investigate inspirations from East and West.
The Metamorphosis bracelet, with its 35.4-carat light brown marquise diamond she made for London-based mostly jeweler Moussaïeff is unquestionably not to be skipped.
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Into the Future
To mark Gaia Repossi’s 15th yr as resourceful director of her family’s eponymous home, the brand is presenting a retrospective of her significant jewelry models.
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But really don’t expect a museum-worthy established. Repossi is identified to translate standard codes of jewellery into “bold pieces meant to operate as a next skin” by combining artwork, architecture and “primitive jewellery,” mentioned the residence.
Introduced in an artwork gallery in Paris, this is an chance to take a look at the Serti sur Vide floating diamonds or the Blast spirals as inventive gestures fairly than denizens of Place Vendôme.
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