High Jewelry Icons: The Masterpieces Defining 2025
In 2025, high jewelry has ascended beyond opulence. It is storytelling in precious form, a testament to craftsmanship, and an emblem of the maisons that conceive it. This year’s creations reveal a marriage of technical innovation and poetic artistry, presenting jewels that are as much cultural statements as they are treasures.
STYLE & JEWELRY
8/22/20252 min read
Graff – The Gift of Love
Graff’s showpiece of the season, The Gift of Love, is a lyrical masterpiece. Two sparrows appear mid-flight, suspending a 13.51-carat Fancy Intense Yellow pear-shaped diamond between them. Over 2,300 diamonds, cut in multiple forms, compose the birds’ shimmering feathers. Crafted over 6,000 hours, it is both an ode to nature and a celebration of enduring devotion.
Louis Vuitton – Victoire Collar
Louis Vuitton continues its architectural narrative with the Victoire Collar, inspired by the Eiffel Tower. A triumph of engineering and design, the collar is adorned with 33 yellow diamonds and anchored by a 10.43-carat LV Monogram star-cut diamond of flawless purity. Nearly 4,000 hours of meticulous craftsmanship bring Parisian grandeur to life in luminous form.
De Beers – Foundation Necklace
De Beers finds inspiration in the quiet strength of trees. The Foundation Necklace features cascading rows of graduated diamonds converging on a rare Fancy Deep Greyish Yellowish Green diamond. It is a piece that embodies resilience and balance, celebrating the timeless bond between natural world and gem artistry.
The Year’s Defining Trends
2025 marks a return to storytelling through stones. Cartier reimagines its Panthère with bold emeralds, while Dior embroiders its Diorexquis jewels with couture-like detail. Chanel gazes skyward with celestial forms in Reach for the Stars, and Tiffany revisits oceanic fantasy with Sea of Wonder. Bulgari’s Polychroma celebrates chromatic daring, while Boucheron, Messika, and Buccellati prove once more that transformable jewels are the new icons of versatility.
