Van Cleef & Arpels Flowerlace
Leave it to Van Cleef & Arpels to take a 1937 motif and turn it into the freshest bloom on the block. The new Flowerlace collection reimagines archival clips as playful ribbons that flirt with petals, oversized, whimsical, and polished just enough to charm both garden lovers and couture devotees. It’s a ribbon–flower hybrid with silhouettes that feel bold and ethereal on the body.
Whimsical and refined, it marks a whole new design language that keeps its floral universe feeling fresh. Using the ancestral technique of lost-wax casting, each motif starts as a wax sculpture. When fired, molten precious metal takes on the exact shape of the wax, before the gold is painstakingly worked by hand, set with diamonds, and polished to perfection. The openwork corolla captures the vibrancy of nature, with petals that seem bathed in sunlight and lines that flow like a ribbon—a beautiful nod to Van Cleef & Arpels’ theme of couture.
Chopard Insofu
Chopard’s latest high-jewellery chapter actually began back in 2022, when miners in Zambia unearthed an enormous 6,225-carat rough emerald. Its trunk-like form earned it the name Insofu—“elephant” in the local Bemba language—and it didn’t take long for the gemstone to capture the imagination of Chopard’s co-president and artistic director, Caroline Scheufele.
Fast forward to Paris Fashion Week 2025, where Scheufele unveiled the finished “Insofu” collection: 15 unique creations that tell the story of the original stone through their rich colour and natural character. Earrings, necklaces, a bracelet, even a watch—all born from a single emerald, marking only the second time in the Maison’s history that an entire high-jewellery line has been crafted from one gemstone. Getting there was anything but simple, as emeralds are famously fragile and difficult to cut. To give the stone its best chance, Chopard brought in expert cutters from India to work directly at the Geneva workshop. After carefully studying the rough gem, they mapped out a cutting plan that balanced beauty with preservation. In the end, around 850 carats of emeralds were carved from the original giant.
True to Chopard’s commitment to transparency, the journey of the stone—from the moment it left the Zambian mine to its transformation into high jewellery—remains fully traceable, underscoring the Maison’s emphasis on both responsible sourcing and craftsmanship.