COUTURE & ARTIST JEWELRY #2

eanne Toussaint was right: “Women love jewelry not for its value, but for the emotion it contains.

Nearly a century later, jewelry remains a gesture of art and intimacy, tiny and essential. Between wearable sculpture and precious fantasy, fashion and jewelry orchestrate the syntax of style in two voices.

The Bijoux Couture & d’Artistes #2 sale celebrates the creative gesture, in turn radical, playful or poetic.

Hervé Van Der Straeten, Ettore Sottsass, Jean Boggio, Alessandro Mondini, De Lucchi, Stanley Tigerman, Irina Volkonskii and a number of inspired anonymous artists explore materials and imaginary worlds – from brutalism to the childlike, from hammered metal to colored resin, from enamel to Plexiglas.

Jewelry by John Galliano for Christian Dior, created in the early 2000s: emblematic pieces combining pompadour, Masai and tribal spirit, in a baroque and theatrical register.

Still at Dior, but with a rockier edge,Hedi Slimane ‘s articulated rings – immortalized by Karl Lagerfeld – reflect this tense dialogue between strength and elegance.

The great names of couture – Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix – sign jewels for everyday wear: sparkling rhinestones, bourgeois pearls, pop colors and cheerful fantasies.

A profusion of rings, dog collars, breastplates, sautoirs, brooches, clips, creoles, dormeuses and girandoles make up a jubilant repertoire of jewelry, to be orchestrated in total freedom to reveal a singular allure – and remind us, if proof were needed, that it’s all a matter of detail.