Katerina’s Choice: The Best Jewellery From COUTURE 2016

Sadly, COUTURE’s doors have already closed, and the halls of the Wynn, Las Vegas hotel have emptied. However, the images of the jewellery I saw has not been wiped from my memory, and here I have collated the most vivid and memorable of these. All of them belong to a different style – high jewellery, fashion fine jewellery, minimalist, extravagant, bright and monochrome, both with and without gems –  together they reflect the whole palette of the art of jewellery design.

A unique item, that I find I have to highlight at the beginning – is the luxurious “Orchid” necklace by Caratell. It has been executed to such a level of detail, that the flowers on it look almost real. I discovered another beautiful flower in the showroom of the German company, Stenzhorn. Its designers, together with the company’s founder, Klaus Stenzhorn, created a magnificent necklace with a chrysanthemum, assembled with the aid of an invisible setting of sparkling rubies.

Many other designers apart from NC Rocks who took part in COUTURE have also used the theme of geometric shapes in their jewellery. For example, Rachel Shaw, the founder of the British brand, Ruifier, debuted her “Spectre” collection, the jewellery of which resembles snowfakes with diamond shaped gems varying sizes. A designer from the UAE, Reem Mobassaleh from R.Y.M. Jewelry made her debut with a collection of transformable geometric pieces that can be removed from one jewel and put on another as a central decorative element. The Israeli designer Yossi Harari creates rather minimalistic jewellery, most often of all oval or round in form. However, he made his new necklace in a different format creating an angular design. However, as with all of Yossi’s jewellery the key feature of the design is the finish of gold.