Jewellery

High jewellery from Paris Haute Couture Week 2024 in pictures

The best of the new high jewellery collections from Cartier, Dior and Gucci through Tiffany & Co, Louis Vuitton and Graff to David Morris and Chaumet. Exclusively shot in Paris by Iris Velghe

BY Joshua Hendren

May 1 2024

Photographs by Iris Velghe, creative direction by Tim Holloway, styling by Joshua Hendren, words by Kim Parker

From New York’s Fifth Avenue to Paris’ storied Place Vendôme, 2024’s high jewellery presentations were a dazzling display of unrivalled artistry, showcasing wearable canvases of glowing metals and technicolour gemstones.

Gucci yellow gold Allegoria high jewellery necklace, set with enamel, tourmalines and diamond

Tiffany & Co. platinum and yellow gold Blue Book Jellyfish bracelet, set with sapphires, tanzanites, moonstones and diamonds and platinum and yellow gold Blue Book Jellyfish ring, set with diamonds, sapphires, tanzanites and moonstone

Louis Vuitton pink gold Deep Time Skin high jewellery necklace, set with diamonds and sapphires

Tiffany & Co. revealed a collection devoted to oceanic hues – one of the preferred palettes of its legendary designer, Jean Schlumberger – while the Italian house of Gucci revelled in the kaleidoscopic spectrums of the four seasons and reproduced them with rainbows of sapphires and tourmalines. The jewels at David Morris were an ode to the ethereal colours of the Northern Lights, but at Louis Vuitton, inspiration was drawn from the fleshy tones of the earliest life forms, from fungi to reptiles.

Louis Vuitton pink gold Deep Time Skin high jewellery bracelet, set with diamonds and sapphires

David Morris white gold Mercurio bangle, set with diamonds

Gucci yellow gold Allegoria high jewellery mono earring, set with sapphires, tourmalines and diamonds

Meanwhile, Chaumet looked heavenwards, with sunshine-saturated jewels of platinum, white and rose gold, Dior sought creative impetus from the floral-tinted embroideries of its founder’s couture atelier and Cartier celebrated the chromatic contrasts of its Art Deco heyday, reintroducing the blacks (onyx), greens (peridots, emeralds) and reds (coral) so beloved by its then-creative director, Jeanne Toussaint, for a contemporary audience.

Chaumet platinum, white gold and rose gold Plumes d’or transformable tiara, set with diamonds and white gold and rose gold Parade earcuff and earring, set with diamonds

Graff platinum and white gold Mozambique Ruby necklace, set with rubies and diamonds

Cartier platinum Le Voyage Recommencé high jewellery necklace, set with peridots, corals, onyx, emeralds and diamonds

As the purveyor of some of the world’s rarest gemstones, Graff highlighted the supreme beauty of its emeralds, rubies and sapphires with graphic arrangements of diamonds. After all, says design director Anne-Eva Geffroy, “these magnificent jewels provide us with a creative freedom that is incomparable.”