Editor’s Note
This article previews Dior’s new Milly Dentelle high jewelry collection, where artistic director Victoire de Castellane draws vibrant inspiration from the gardens of Christian Dior’s historic country retreat.
The Dior house has never been afraid to add color to its most prestigious creations. At the beginning of this year, Victoire de Castellane, artistic director of Dior Joaillerie for over 25 years, continues to surprise us. This is particularly evident through joyful jewelry pieces inspired by the lush vegetation of Christian Dior’s estate in Milly-la-Forêt, known to have been the designer’s refuge. Titled Milly Dentelle, this new collection sketches an aesthetic close to a marvelous fairy tale. It notably unveils a necklace ennobled with rose gold, diamonds, pink sapphires, and red rubies, like an embroidery of gemstones.
As evidenced by the pieces from the third chapter of Cartier’s Nature Sauvage collection, the French high jewelry house stops at nothing when it comes to engaging in a dialogue with excellence. This piece in grey gold, emeralds, adorned with tiny pieces of coral, sapphires, and diamonds, gracefully follows the lines of the neck and sketches a fine lacing in marine and vegetal colors, punctuated by dazzling lines…
While feathers made a timid appearance during Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2025 haute couture show, they are elevated to star status here by Patrice Leguéreau, director of the jewelry creation studio at the house. Sublimated with shades of vivid and powdery roses, this collection is a lovely nod to Mademoiselle Chanel’s heritage. In 1932, the couturier presented her one and only high jewelry collection, which notably included a brooch in the shape of a feather… From an open ring set with a light pink diamond, to a headpiece in yellow gold, and a sautoir reinventing the house’s iconic codes, the collection perfectly reflects the expertise of the Chanel workshops.
Articulated around 7 themes including Splendor, Gravity, and Victory, the new high jewelry collection bearing the Louis Vuitton signature groups 50 pieces. Titled Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds, it is tinged with a certain dandyism and an elegance characteristic of the 19th century. In addition to a bracelet adorned with an exceptionally rare yellow sapphire, the house also unveils a sublime hand jewel. Functioning as both a ring and a bracelet, dozens of diamond Monogram Flowers delicately intertwine. A series of jewels balancing practicality and aesthetics, like a pocket watch adorned with tsavorites. Or even a compass entirely hand-engraved…
Inspired in 2024 by the majestic waterfall scenery of Icelandic landscapes, the artistic director of the Boucheron house, Claire Choisne, returns with a series of 28 astonishing high jewelry pieces. Resembling a luxurious herbarium, the ensemble she imagines reflects all the complexity of nature and its plants. While our eye lingers on a necklace shaped like a rose branch and a brooch in the shape of a bee or a moth, we discover in turn a pair of earrings representing a cyclamen. But also a ring resembling a tiny bumblebee with wings set with rock crystal and mother-of-pearl.
After a collection paying tribute to music unveiled in early 2024, the Chaumet house now turns to Asia. More precisely to nature, by highlighting bamboo. A symbol of longevity, wealth, and tenacity, this plant allows the workshops to craft ten pieces. All exalt Asian culture, including a diadem and a pair of earrings, enhanced with hand-engraved yellow gold leaves. We also notice a highly desirable ring. It is topped with a garnet and a black opal with blue reflections, carefully placed side by side on a white gold base, set with resplendent diamonds.
On the occasion of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, the famous Pomellato house exhibits jewelry with rounded forms. Paired with extremely fine, luminous earrings, a necklace with soft lines and an irregular diamond pavé completes its iconic Sabbia collection, inspired by the reflections of the moon. Through these two creations, the house founded in Milan in 1967 once again demonstrates its unparalleled expertise. And continues its beautiful tribute to nature, in a way that is both pure and sophisticated.
Recognized as the master jeweler of diamonds par excellence, De Beers imagines for this new season the first chapter of the Essence of Nature collection.
