Louis Vuitton Presents Its New High Jewelry Collection
Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds celebrates the phenomenal, transformative period of 19th century France with the explosion of French savoir-faire and inventiveness – recalling the parallel journey of Louis Vuitton’s own magnificent beginnings.
Featuring a 56.23 carats, “warm champagne” color, octagonal step cut, the centerpiece of the necklace takes its inspiration from the Eiffel Tower.
In a year that shines with French pride, Louis Vuitton’s 2024 High Jewelry Collection – Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds – transports us to an epochal, transformative time, when savoir-faire became France’s legacy, and innovation its enlightenment.
The Collection celebrates the country’s flourishing savoir-faire, great craftsmen and leading inventors of the 19th century. Here, luxury becomes synonymous with innovation, a spirit and ambition that is magnified by the Collection’s singular and daring design vision.
“France in the 19th century was a phenomenal time of incredible change, and when Paris really became the center of the world,” says Francesca Amfitheatrof, Artistic Director for Watches and Jewelry. “The design language of Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds reflects that – all its intricacies, complications and innovations – turned into incredible jewels.”
At 220 unique masterpiece jewels set across 13 different themes, this is Amfitheatrof’s sixth High Jewelry Collection for the Maison and its largest Collection yet.
The Awakened Minds chapter echoes expansion and innovation through hypnotic settings infused with the interconnectedness of movement — a new stylized interpretation of industrialization in a masterful play of geometry and the signatures of the Maison.
Vision
Embodying Louis Vuitton’s spirit of travel, Vision immerses in the expansion of the railways and the newfound sense of freedom and discovery. Interlaced V-shaped links are revisited with luxurious rivets reminiscent of the Maison’s trunkmaking codes — crafting an enveloping necklace, exalted by golden yellow sapphires.
Yellow gold, platinum, yellow sapphires, and diamonds.
Optimisme
The captivating allure of Paris is personified in Optimisme, unveiled in a play of architectural refinement. Sophisticated and elegant, a bold choker winds around the neck, achieving a fascinating dual tone effect with delicately shaped baguette diamonds among interlocking facades of platinum and yellow gold — a configuration for optimal reflection.
Fréquence
The speed of modernity and rapid industrialization transcend the pure and hypnotic designs of Fréquence, unfurling the Maison’s iconic repeated Kite motif in a 4-strand necklace. Luminous diamonds come together to create a subtle reference to the emblematic Monogram Flower.
Perception
Perception reframes the era’s sense of motion and rapid new pace through repeated geometric patterns — realized in mesmerizing mix of diamonds. Unprecedented sapphire gem stones glow with a velvety blue hue, commanding the centerpiece.
Victoire
Crafted in the image of the iconic French landmark, Victoire embraces the intricate Eiffel Tower’s movement with a unique inverted perspective with a remarkable V-shaped necklace. The exceptional 15.16-carat D IF stone, cut in the shape of the Monogram Flower, one of the largest ever set in the Maison’s High Jewelry collections.
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