It is the season to be heavy-handed, by which I mean flooding your fingers and wrists with bracelets and rings. It’s a look I embraced in primary school, when jewellery was against the dress code and I would compensate by stacking all my bangles together on weekends. “Bursting through is a brighter mood for endorphin-boosting excess” It appears the -fuelled quiet luxury trend has passed.
This season, designers are taking a different approach, attaching big jewels to rings and clusters of pearls to cuff bracelets. On the red carpet at the Academy Awards, stylists fashioned chains and discs into hand jewellery. There is also a harking back to childhood.
As far back as Fall/Winter 2023, there was nostalgic eccentricity in the collection of everyday objects reimagined as sentimental jewellery. Now, bursting through is a brighter mood for endorphin-boosting excess and colour-clashing maximalism. Bulgari’s high jewellery collection ‘Mediterranea’ is a celebration of colour, while Schiaparelli’s gilded bijoux are still essential to the identity of the house.
Californian jeweller Lisa Eisner piles her jewellery on each morning, finding solace in the protective qualities of different stones. Speaking to , she explained: “Even more than clothes, I think jewellery is all about self-expression” and that the physical weight of her pieces is “like [her] armour”. This individualist expression is evident in street style too, with the advent of wild creations from jewell.
