This gorgeous pearl necklace sketch is from haute designer Van Cleef &
Arpels. This year, jewelers are showcasing deep sea and Neptune
themes. Gorgeous!
Want to keep up with the latest jewelry trends? Read on...
From Time:
The haute couture is no longer just about handmade clothing that costs
upwards of $20,000 a piece. Nowadays, with the $217 billion luxury
market growing at 10% a year and millionaires being minted every
minute in emerging markets like China and Russia, Paris's Place
Vendome has become a veritable shopping mall for the big spenders who
are in town for the shows this week. Fine jewelers like Van Cleef &
Arpels, Chanel, and Boucheron are seizing the high luxury moment,
showing collections of unique often over-the-top pieces.
The venerable French jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels opened their doors
Wednesday to present their newest fine jewelry collection, Atlantide.
Many of the pieces were just models since most of the collection is
still in production up in the ateliers. If all goes according to plan,
the Atlantide collection will travel from Paris to Hong Kong in the
fall and land in New York City just in time for the holidays. Based on
the mythic stories of Neptune and his queen, Cleita, the Van Cleef
creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to
depict ocean spray and rare aqua colored tourmaline's to evoke the
ocean depths. One stunning pendant is composed of onyx and set with
diamonds and white gold coral-shaped branches. Other pieces include
sea nymph pins encrusted with sapphires and a Poseiden-like creature
made of yellow gold and fashioned into a pin set with yellow and white
diamonds and a 7 carat spinel.
Mikimoto, famous for their cultured pearls, is also stepping up its
fashion week presence here with a new collection called "Stormy
Weather," designed by Yohji Yamamoto, who was inspired by the
variations of grays on the house's pearls and the "forms and colors
trailing in the wake of a boat in stormy weather." The collection
includes a $55,000 necklace made of 28 white gold discs, each
containing a pearl and each representing one of the 28 phases of the
moon.
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