Haute Couture 2025: The Most Impressive Flower High Jewels that Bloomed in Paris

Floral jewels have long been a hallmark of high jewellery, but at this year’s Haute Couture presentations in Paris, designers approached the motif with renewed focus and technical ambition. Scale, movement and materiality were explored through rare stones, transformable elements and tactile textures, reimagining the flower in bold, contemporary forms. Here, we spotlight the standout floral creations from the 2025 shows.

Nature has long been a source of inspiration for Place Vendôme jewellers; celestial bodies, flora and fauna keep coming back to their high jewellery collections year after year. If we go through the archives of Chaumet, Boucheron, Mellerio or Cartier, we will find enough inspiration to create nature-inspired jewels for many years to come. However, this July, during the high jewellery launches, a strong design inspiration in the form of flowers came to the fore. Chaumet, Boucheron, Mikimoto and Pasquale Bruni presented whole luscious collections inspired by various flowers, especially roses, while Anna Hu, Piaget, and Chopard presented meticulously crafted standalone floral designs as a part of other themes. Now, let’s take a closer look at the couture flower designs made from precious metals and gemstones instead of fabric.

Anna Hu

Serendipity Paris

A more lyrical interpretation came from Christine Chen, founder of Serendipity Paris, whose Nymphéa Levant necklace merges Eastern philosophy with Impressionist influence. Inspired by Monet’s Water Lilies and Chen’s memories of Chinese gardens, the necklace conjures a tranquil aquatic landscape. A 22.61-carat padparadscha sapphire - certified as one of the rarest ‘lotus sapphires’ discovered - glows at its centre, its sunrise tones suggesting a lotus in bloom. Winding white gold branches and 15 natural conch pearls surround it, while a plique-à-jour enamel goldfish glides along the base, accompanied by 2,963 diamonds. Chen emphasises the importance of merging the East and the West in this piece - a symbolic fish, significant in Asian culture but absent from Monet’s work, hints at the fusion of cultural narratives that makes the necklace feel both striking and new.

Piaget

Pasquale Bruni

Others turned to florals as metaphors for nature’s quiet strength. Italian jeweller Pasquale Bruni introduced Rosina, a collection inspired by nature’s slow reclamation. A diamond-set choker imagines vines, moss and roses growing freely, drawing on creative director Eugenia Bruni’s rediscovery of her aunt’s overgrown family home. Aunt Rosina - a powerful presence in Eugenia’s life - was a figure of deep personal inspiration, embodying strength, femininity and a fierce devotion to family. The collection celebrates this spirit of transformation with couture-like features: the necklace’s central element can be detached and worn as a belt buckle or a hat ornament, while the earrings and brooches also offer multiple wearing options. Roses bloom as mandalas, petals become thorns, and soft heart shapes flutter like leaves in motion, each detail honouring the rose as a symbol of creation, duality and emotional memory.

Chopard

Boucheron

Unlike other jewellers, Boucheron’s Creative Director Claire Choisne explored the floral theme in monochrome colours with her Impermanence collection. Comprising a series of 6 ikebana-inspired compositions suspended between sculpture and adornment, she played with volumes and texture rather than colours. In one standout design, a translucent tulip and eucalyptus branch crafted from borosilicate glass appear weightless, accompanied by a gossamer-winged dragonfly. Each element is transformable - a brooch, an earring, a hair jewel - highlighting the collection’s modular and tactile approach. Other pieces ventured into darker territory: a poppy in Vantablack - the blackest material in existence - sweet peas carved from black aventurine, and thistles with diamonds stitched into resin. All shared a focus on nature’s fragility and transience.

De Beers

Mikimoto

Capturing a fleeting moment, Mikimoto’s Les Pétales collection explored how a rose begins to shed its petals. Using their signature material - cultured pearls and diamonds, as well as a touch of colour in the form of morganites, rubellites and aquamarines, the designs evoke windblown blossoms in motion. A necklace and a pair of bracelets with diamond-studded petals resting on hundreds of woven pearls are particularly striking. It’s strong look, which Mikimoto has already explored in its past collections, merges couture dressing and precious jewellery. Several necklaces are similarly striking with layers of pearls covering the décolleté - another nod to the glamour of jewellery.

Chaumet

Together, these designs prove that the flower - one of jewellery’s most enduring motifs - still offers fertile ground for innovation, craftsmanship and fresh creative expression. The only remaining question is, which one is your favourite?