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“Vogue designers don’t consider the jewelry,” says Chopard co-president and creative director Caroline Scheufele once we meet for lunch on the model’s headquarters in Geneva. This, she insists, is a missed alternative.
Scheufele is gearing as much as unveil Chopard’s second couture style assortment. The primary was unveiled final yr through the Cannes Movie Competition, of which Chopard has been an official companion for 27 years. This time, the ‘Caroline’s Couture’ assortment is greater: 77 silhouettes to mark the 77th version of the pageant, which runs from 14 to 25 Could. It is going to be offered throughout a present additionally that includes the maison’s newest high-jewellery providing on 21 Could at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, to 250 company.
Caroline’s Couture focuses on how necklines can spotlight a necklace or earrings, and options patterns that nod to Chopard’s signature jewelry collections: Ice Dice, Pleased Hearts or Valuable Lace. The brand new fairy-tale-themed assortment includes a midnight-blue costume in feathers with a cut up neckline that may be worn with a tiara; a black smoking jacket paired with a clown-shaped brooch (referencing Scheufele’s debut jewelry design, a cheerful clown); and a gray bustier robe to put on with diamond earrings.
Couture methods embrace embroidery from each China (from the Miao folks’s ateliers in Southern China) and India (from the Kalhath Institute in Lucknow), and materials conceived with Jakob Schlaepfer, based mostly in St Gallen, Switzerland. There are equipment within the type of six hats in collaboration with milliner Philip Treacy. The present may also embrace 5 males’s smoking jackets — created in partnership with luxurious tailor Cifonelli to go along with the watches — males’s jewelry and cufflinks. Costs span from €5,000 for a shirt to €50,000 for a robe.