Beads of Summer
Playful camp-craft motifs are reborn in rare gems and meticulous settings for a fine-jewellery glow up.
Carolina Bucci brings a distinctly modern irreverence to fine jewellery, blending Florentine craftsmanship with a playful, personal sensibility. Bucci is known for transforming traditional techniques into pieces meant to be mixed and layered. Her Downtown beads combine 18-karat gold with vividly coloured semiprecious stones and enamel spheres.
Nostalgia has always been fashion’s most persuasive muse, and this season it arrives as brightly polished memories threaded on a string. The carefree beads of childhood craft boxes—once woven into friendship bracelets and summer-camp keepsakes—returns to the jewellery box with unexpected refinement. What was once playful is now precious.
Jewellery maisons are translating the language of camp crafts into fine- and high-jewellery pieces, elevating humble motifs through rare stones, intricate settings, and masterful goldsmithing. The result is jewellery that feels both sentimental and sophisticated. Each bead becomes a small capsule of memory now rendered in gold and gemstones. This jewellery, from Carolina Bucci, Chopard, Cartier, and Van Cleef & Arpels, is anything but child’s play.
Van Cleef & Arpels Perlée collection in yellow gold and turquoise. Pieces include the Transformable Necklace, Toi & Moi Secret watch with mother-of-pearl dial and diamonds, and Beaded ring 3 rows.
Peace pendant from Chopard’s Red Carpet collection in titanium and white gold. The multihued bouquet of stones includes emeralds, sapphires, spessartites, rubellites, Paraiba tourmalines, and turquoises.
Cartier Libre TuttiTutti ring in rose gold, set with onyx, chrysoprase, and diamonds. Clash de Cartier bracelet in yellow gold and green agate.
