On the body
Schiaparelli: The Body as a Jewel
A necklace shaped like lungs, a ribbon hung with pine cones, an earring beside a sculpted cape: Schiaparelli changes the way ornament meets the body.
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A watch meets a sleeve. A cuff follows the wrist. A brooch finds its place on cloth. Design changes when an object is worn.
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What changes
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A cuff follows the wrist. Rings change when worn together. A brooch finds its place on cloth. Each story looks at what happens when an object becomes part of a life.
Style & Culture
Diorissima: A Garden Composed in Gemstones
A green flower beside blue, a jewel above an open back, a brush at the workbench: Diorissima brings collage into the way jewellery is made and worn.
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Hermès Horsescape: The Horse in the Line
A saddle at the wrist, a stirrup held against the sky, bright lines beside the face. Into the Horsescape turns an equestrian vocabulary into personal style.
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Louis Vuitton Mythica: Colour in Command
Victory’s changing colours, Conquest’s red pulse and Fortitude’s blue centre: three ways Mythica gives a high jewellery necklace its presence.
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Personal style / composition
CHANEL COCO CRUSH: Choosing the Mix
CHANEL’s Style Guide shows how COCO CRUSH changes when rings, bracelets, earrings and a short necklace are edited by scale, metal and position rather than worn by formula.
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Design / the body
Elsa Peretti’s Bone Cuff: When Jewellery Follows the Body
Elsa Peretti’s Bone cuff begins with anatomy: a side-specific, asymmetric silver form whose surface changes with the wrist, light and movement.
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Proportion / dress
The Cartier Tank: A Rectangle in Conversation with Dress
A close reading of the Cartier Tank through proportion, brancards, strap, bracelet and the changing frame created by the wrist and the sleeve.
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Placement / movement
The Brooch in Motion: Placement, Gesture and Dress
A brooch changes the line of a garment through placement, scale and movement. This object-led study reads the jewel where cloth and gesture meet.
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Design / history
Before the Wrist: When Timekeeping Was Worn as Jewellery
From an enamelled chatelaine to Santos, Tank, Tutti Frutti and Crash: Cartier shows how time was worn as jewellery before the modern wristwatch became ordinary.
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Form in
another light.
Three stories from our other desks, each close to the questions of scale, movement and making.
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