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Jewellery moments of the year: hip-hop heavyweights to unexpected diamond cuts
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Jewellery moments of the year: hip-hop heavyweights to unexpected diamond cuts
Jewellery editor Hannah Silver’s top 10 jewellery moments of 2024
| | Jewellery moments of the year: design that dazzled jewellery editor Hannah SilverFrom a show of hip-hop strength to surreal designs, artist-inspired collaborations and fluid high jewellery, the past 12 months have seen it all. Here are some of our favourite moments.
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| | 01. Hedi Slimane translates Jean Arp’s sculptures into jewellery piecesThe designer paid tribute to the organic form of Jean Arp’s work Ptolémée II in the latest iteration of the Celine Bijoux d’Artistes Project |
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| | 02. Wild beauties: high jewellery dripping with dramaThe latest high jewellery collections are fantastic and flamboyant, drawing on a wealth of influences, from a Chopin composition and César Ritz to crocodiles and colour refraction |
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| | 03. ‘It is always a pleasure to surprise’: inside Lagos-based high-jewellery house Akano Diamonds
Akunna Nwala-Akano, founder of Akano Diamonds, fills us in on the creative process behind her brand
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| | 04. ‘Given hip-hop’s roots in New York, the chance to tell this story in this city is very special’The American Museum of Natural History plays a blinder with ‘Ice Cold: An Exhibition of Hip-Hop Jewelry’, a cultural trip through jewellery design |
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| | 05. Venyx translates Man Ray’s sensual symbols into surrealist jewelleryVenyx pays tribute to artist Man Ray with a new surrealist jewellery collection |
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| | 06. Lugano’s versatile high jewellery pieces are too good to save for special occasionsThe Californian brand embraces unexpected materials and cool design codes in its informal high jewellery
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| | 07. Snailed it: Jessica McCormack and the Haas Brothers’ playful jewelleryJessica McCormack and the Haas Brothers give a second jewellery collaboration a swirl |
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| | 08. The African jewellery designers marrying heritage with sharp design codesThese designers, from Pichulik to Dejak, are putting Africa’s jewellery industry in the spotlight
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| | 09. Alighieri marks ten years with ten jewellery classicsA special collection, ‘The Classics’, celebrates Alighieri’s founding ethos – ‘to create timeless modern heirlooms’, says founder Rosh Mahtani |
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| | 10. Cora Sheibani celebrates unexpected diamond cuts in a new jewellery collectionCora Sheibani's collection, ‘Facets and Forms’, marries her love of history and science |
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