The four dominant themes in the jewelery for 2017 are Existence, Haute Gems, Easy-Trans-Form, and Self-Art. This was established by Swarovski, in the usual Gem Vision, which analyzes lighting a beacon on the near future of the jewelry. If it will be just like that we will see in the coming months. But who could flip through over a hundred pages of research, as always richly illustrated, it is realized how the future of the jewelry will be determined in reality by a single philosophy: eclecticism. There will not be, in a nutshell, a single, strong, dominant trend, but a set of colors and shapes that follow each other, live together, are mixed. Like a big kaleidoscope. Of course, there are also identified by Swarovski trend, moral values such as nature and the Existence law, which will be like lights in the darkness of everyday life. The Haute Gems trend indicates a tendency to create more and more theatrical jewels, large, showy. The life as a stage where we are observed, from which send (with the networks), ours images and share it. For this to be noticed in the infinite mass of images that fill life is increasingly a need felt, according Swarovski. The Easy-Trans-Form trend is instead a kind of hedonism applied to jewelry. There will be comfortable, pleasant shapes, easy to wear. There are those who will claim to wear a necklace that adapts to the body like a shirt, maybe. But which also she manages to have fun, perhaps to consider the jewel as a game. Finally, Self-Art: the jewel as an expression of their creativity. Not only, then, we want finished objects, but we will have the ability to use the elements that make up a gem like ability to communicate our aesthetic vision. Perhaps it is not very far from what children do when they put their beads on a wire. But it is necessary that the designers provide the right components to entice and arouse the creativity of the individual. Will they succeed? We’ll know in 2017. Federico Graglia
