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This conversion into a go-to brand for accomplished professional and artistic women was largely thanks to the original Ice Cube collection’s formidable charisma. Founded in 1860, Chopard remains a world-leading watchmaker but, after beginning its lines in fine and luxury jewelry in the 1980s, the Swiss brand has become increasingly coveted by a fashion-forward clientele. Originally conceived in 1999, Chopard’s geometric collection was designed to be architectural, unisex, and imposing with chunky gold cubes and rigid construction. While Harry Winston’s and Graff’s necklaces wear their weights lightly, making them among Baselworld 2017’s most seriously chic pieces, they share a sensual spirit with Chopard’s revisited Ice Cube collection, crafted to evoke rock-chick cool. These intimate relationships between the body and stones mean that the diamonds celebrate the wearers’ movements. Far from being a stuffy institution, Harry Winston exemplifies a balletic balancing act between being classic and au current.Ī bracelet from Chopard’s revisited Ice Cube collection. Harry Winston, one of America’s most renowned legacy jewelers, was established in 1932 and became etched in popular consciousness when Marilyn Monroe ecstatically cooed its name in her song “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” But the irreverence of the company’s loosely slung diamond necklace on view at the fair matches the brand’s ingenuity in dressing Hollywood as the first jeweler to loan diamonds to Academy Award actresses in the 1940s. The platinum setting is almost invisible, creating the illusion of diamonds robed together and falling like a silk scarf. Although comprised of 568 marquise, square, emerald-cut, and round diamonds set in platinum and weighing approximately 115.9 carats, The Secret Combination necklace appears to be casually draped. Harry Winston, The Secret Combination NecklaceĪnother especially majestic example is Harry Winston’s elegantly insouciant The Secret Combination necklace.
With parallel but asymmetric loosely spaced lines of 139 pear-shaped diamonds, the necklace pays homage to Duncan’s combination of uninhibited, fluid movement while maintaining an order that showcases the stones. Dance is a repeated motif for her collections, and her Isadora line demonstrates the historic lineage of her free-spirited aesthetic. Valérie Messika, the young Parisian designer (and daughter of a renowned diamond specialist) who opened her first boutique on Rue Saint-Honoré in 2013, devotes all her collections to pliant, casual-seeming pieces of exquisite quality stones. Placing this aesthetic ethos into its historic context is Messika’s Isadora necklace, inspired by the legendary mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan.
Although this static museum-style presentation drew admiration, the truth is that jewelry, as wearable works of art, is best experienced worn-a truism especially relevant this year, since the most compelling pieces on offer at Baselworld 2017 facilitate, enhance, or evoke physical movement. While brands debuted their new creations on a by-appointment-only basis, the elaborately bespoke stands presented representative heritage and preview pieces in straightforward displays, allowing viewers’ appreciation to focus exclusively on the stones and designs themselves. Twinkles abounded at the centennial edition of Baselworld, the world’s premiere luxury watch expo in Switzerland, where winking gems and glistening precious metals attracted thousands of international visitors to gaze into the purveyors’ booths.
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