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The first Gucci high jewelry collection

Published on July 5, 2019

A boutique has opened in Place Vandôme for Gucci’s high jewelry, the first collection is called Hortus Deliciarum ♦ ︎

From bags to clothes. From clothes to jewelry. And from fine jewelry to high jewelry, in the most exclusive place in the world: Gucci opened a store in Place Vendôme, in Paris. It must be an essential place for the Kering group, which includes the Florentine brand. At the same time, in fact, always in the most luxurious square in the city I opened a boutique also another brand that belongs to the same French group Kering.

Orecchini in oro, diamanti, gemme colorate

In short, Gucci makes a leap in quality and combines jewelry for mere mortals with one for those with high budgets, as he had anticipated at the end of last year. The boutique will host the gold jewelry and high jewelry designed by Alessandro Michele, creative director of the fashion house. Result: the Hortus Deliciarum collection, a garden of delights where the fruits are “unique gems”.

The collection includes over 200 pieces, mainly unique. And also each gem is set differently, with a result that Michele records discordant symmetry. This search for imperfection, for uniqueness, pays tribute to the classic emblems of eternal love, to the majesty of the animal kingdom with mythical bestiaries and ancient fauna and, finally, to the solitaires redefined. There are also strong colors: gems with special vivid hues, such as yellow imperial topazes, iridescent opals0 pink topazes, pink and blue sapphires, green tourmalines, mandarin garnets, white diamonds, yellow beryllium. On the contrary, the boutique was made with very sober colors.

Gucci, in any case, underlines that since November 2015 all the gold has been realized with the scheme of the Responsible Jewelery Council Chain of Custody, “which allows to identify the expense and guarantee a responsible supply”. In short, Gucci expands its customer base: it sells gold jewelry between 1,500 and 2,000 euros, but with high jewelry, climb from 50,000 to 800,000. Lavinia Andorno

bracciale tormalina — Bracciale in oro bianco, diamanti, tormaline

collana diamanti topazi — Collier in oro bianco, diamanti, topazi

Collana serpente in oro bianco, diamanti, rubini

Gucci, new snakes for Alessandro Michele

Published on October 8, 2018

Rings/Showroom

Gucci, cinque anelli della collezione Orobouros

A snake of ancient Egypt for the Ouroboros collection by Gucci in the reign of Alessandro Michele. New pieces are now added to the collection presented at Baselworld ♦ ︎

Gucci is also jewelry. The Maison with the green and red ribbon, in fact, for some time also offers extensions of its style in the jewelry industry. But, as you know, fashion houses follow the way of understanding the look dictated by their creative director. Here, then, that the Ouroboros collection presented at Baselworld has the imprint of Alessandro Michele, the face and signature of the Tuscan Maison. So, under the sign of the snake, it is also found on prêt-à-porter and bags. The Ouroboros jewelry collection, based on the classic design of the creeping reptile, refers to the Egyptian symbol of the snake eating its tail, endless creation and destruction. It is also a symbol associated with alchemy, gnosticism and hermeticism.

The new pieces of the Gucci Ouroboros collection include rings of different widths (three laps or five turns), which can be worn together.

But it is likely that those who buy it do not pay much attention to the symbolism of antiquity.
The collection also includes 18-karat yellow gold multi-finger rings, with a round brilliant, sapphires, red topaz and white and black diamonds. The ring in the most precious version has five laps. And it is only the beginning, because Gucci has announced that he will propose other jewels with the shape of the snake, in particular necklaces and pendants. Margherita Donato

Anello della collezione Ouroboros a cinque giri

Anello della collezione Ouroboros a tre giri

Anello in oro, diamanti bianchi e neri, topazi rossi

Gucci and the Dionysus’s tigers

Published on November 1, 2017

Showroom

Gucci, bracciale Dionysus in oro giallo e tsavoriti

The jewels by Gucci Dionysus collection: gold tigers with tsavoriti eyes ♦ ︎
Alessandro Michele has relaunched the Gucci brand. He has conquered the Millennials range, he proposed an aggressive style. A reverberation of the character of the creative director of the Maison of Florence under the umbrella of the Kering group is also seen in the novelties introduced in the jewelery line that takes the name of one of the most famous Gucci line for leather goods: Dionysus, in Greek and Roman mythology known mainly as god of wine and ecstasy. For the fall winter season 2017 Gucci has added new pieces to its range. These are four pieces: 18ct yellow diamond-shaped earrings with diamonds, a yellow gold necklace, green enamel and tsavorite, and two bracelets. Each of these bracelets comes with three interchangeable 18-carat yellow tiger heads with eyebrows and decorated with green enamel around the inner rim. There is also a watch designed to be worn as a timepiece or just as jewel. All pieces have the tiger’s head, Maison’s icon. It is no coincidence: mythology tells us that Dionysus had crossed the Tigris River on a tiger sent by Zeus. Alessia Mongrando

Bracciale Dionysus in oro giallo e tsavoriti

Collezione Dionysus, fermaglio intercambiabile a forma di tigre

The easy road of GucciGhost

Published on November 10, 2016

The GucciGhost charms, silver and enamel affordable.
Once upon a time the luxury brand. It proposed clothing or exquisite accessories, exclusive, of course expensive. But all of this (almost) no more exist: even the high-end brands such as Gucci are adapted to the market. No, you will not find it written in any newspaper, he who raises a concern about a fashion brand is seen immediately remove the advertisement from the Maison accustomed to receiving only praise (trust me, we’ve seen many times with our eyes). But since gioiellis.com is not a slave to anyone, opens a discussion: it makes sense that a brand like Gucci proposes a jewelry like that (not in form but in substance) of Pandora? Proposing silver pendants, sometimes with a little ‘of enamel, from the rough shape? It is one that offers the Italian brand and French-owned with GucciGhost line, in the wake of the collections presented in the spring. The design was entrusted to the artist (and who is not, nowadays?) Named Trouble Andrew. The name might suggest some caution, but the creative director of Gucci, the idolized Alessandro Michele, must consider he very cool. If you like those jewels, you know that the prices are similar to those other brands that are less glorified. Alessia Mongrando

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A boutique has opened in Place Vandôme for Gucci’s high jewelry, the first collection is called Hortus Deliciarum ♦ ︎

(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({}) A snake of ancient Egypt for the Ouroboros collection by Gucci in the reign of Alessandro Michele. New pieces are now added to the collection presented at Baselworld ♦ ︎

The new pieces of the Gucci Ouroboros collection include rings of different widths (three laps or five turns), which can be worn together.

A snake of ancient Egypt for the Ouroboros collection by Gucci in the reign of Alessandro Michele. New pieces are now added to the collection presented at Baselworld ♦ ︎