For its latest high jewellery collection, just unveiled in Vienna yesterday with a star-studded event at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Cartier paid homage to its menagerie of creatures. Named Nature Sauvage (meaning savage nature), the 87-piece collection offers a new take on Cartier’s signature animals – chief among them the celebrated panther – with pieces that blur the lines between figurative and abstract. While previewing the creations in the Austrian capital, editors and VIP guests had a lot of fun trying to figure out which fierce beasts or delicate birds were the inspirations behind necklaces, brooches, earrings, rings and more striking jewels evoking animals ranging from turtles to flamingoes.
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Photos: Handout The Koaga necklace, for instance, is a clear yet subtle reinterpretation of the zebra, its stripes re-created with diamonds and shiny black onyx. Graphic and bold, the necklace features an emerald-cut diamond and a 6.25-carat pear-shaped rubellite as its centrepieces.
Given the theme of the range, it’s no surprise that the panther, the animal most closely associated with Cartier, .