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South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Style Edit: Gucci merges timeless elegance with avant-garde flair in its 2025 collection, showcasing exquisite high jewellery, innovative timepieces and a striking collaboration with Pomellato
Perfectly blending heritage and innovation, the latest drop from Gucci revisits some of the Italian luxury brand's most iconic lines while also striking out into bold new territory. Recently unveiled at a special event at Gucci's flagship on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, it features additions to classic high jewellery and high watchmaking collections, alongside a daring new collaboration with Italian fine jeweller Pomellato. Gucci's collaboration with Pomellato has produced bold new designs. Photo: Handout The Labirinti Gucci collection continues its exploration of a lush Italian garden, which began in 2024. Among 20 new pieces, stand-outs include a close-fitting necklace showcasing lines of articulated diamonds offset by the round-cut 24.75-carat tanzanite and cushion-cut tourmaline at their centre, while another diamond-encrusted necklace features the glittering stones in a macramé pattern surrounding a 52.86-carat octagonal Brazilian aquamarine and oval tanzanites. Advertisement The horsebit motif so intimately associated with Gucci, meanwhile, shows up on rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets, enlivened by a selection of stones that includes sapphires, tsavorites and diamonds. Another Gucci classic, the Marina chain, gets the full rainbow treatment, with necklaces and bracelets brought to life by a spectrum of gems. The Marina chain in rainbow hues. Photo: Handout Seven new timepieces form part of Gucci's 2025 offering, among them five intricate additions to the G-Timeless collection. Each showing off diamond-set tourbillon movements and measuring 40mm, they take their aesthetic cues from the silk scarves for which the maison is so well known. They include a rendering of the Flora scarf in white gold, diamonds and white grand feu enamelling, as well as beautiful reinterpretations of the Velieri, Perle and Safari scarves, plus another that pays tribute to one of Gucci's most common sources of inspiration, equestrian sport. There's also the Gucci 25H Amphitheater, inspired by ancient Rome's Colosseum, a 40mm skeleton tourbillon version of the coveted model first introduced in 2021, featuring a staggered diamond setting and a case just 8.4mm thick; and a new 41mm rose gold Gucci Interlocking, set with a constellation of diamonds in different sizes. Gucci's 2025 offering includes seven new timepieces. Photo: Handout Finally for 2025, Gucci has joined forces with another powerhouse of Italian design, Pomellato, to craft the Monili collection, meaning 'jewels' in Italian. The necklaces, bracelets and clutches in the collection are homages to archival pieces from the 1980s produced by the storied jeweller. They include a cute minaudière in black leather with a wrist strap chain in white gold with pavé diamonds, and bracelets featuring flowing, sensuous loops and knots made from the same materials.
Vogue
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Rihanna Teaches Riot Rose What Fashionably Late Really Looks Like
What does the concept of being 'fashionably late' mean to you? 10-15 minutes to give your host some grace? Well, for Rihanna it means being the one to close out every Met Gala red carpet (while announcing your third baby and still winning with your look) and the final star to take your fashion week front row seat. It doesn't look great on everyone, but the world stops and starts for Rih Rih. Except for yesterday evening, in Paris. Rihanna and her young son Riot Rose stepped out in the city for an appointment at Dior on Avenue Montaigne, to find the boutique was unexpectedly closed. By reports, though, it was 1a.m. The pop star kept up her striking maternity style street style though, wearing a navy layered shrunken polo by Alexander Wang that sat above her bump, as well as some turned down gray cargo pants from the brand, and black ballet flats. And despite her vast and varied handbag collection, she's kept her new canary yellow and red stitched Dior book tote on her arm for her entire Paris trip so far—the Bram Stoker's Dracula-emblazoned bag by new creative director Jonathan Anderson, who Rih has supported through both his Loewe days and his eponymous brand. She wore her hair up with loose curly pieces, a slick two-tone lip, and a pair of oval spectacles. Son Riot Rose—who she shares with partner A$AP Rocky—looked adorable in a striped blue and gray two piece, checkerboard Vans slip-ons, and a pacifier as his own star accessory.
Harpers Bazaar Arabia
02-06-2025
- Business
- Harpers Bazaar Arabia
Jonathan Anderson Is Announced Creative Director Of Dior
The French major force of fashion has announced Jonathan Anderson will succeed Maria Grazia Chiuri as creative director for men's, women's and couture collections In the world of high fashion, few announcements ripple across the industry with such gravity as an announcement about the Big Four: whether Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel or Dior. Today, as the morning light hit the ivory façades of Avenue Montaigne, a new era began for latter. 'We have some very exciting news,' Delphine Arnault, Chair and CEO of Christian Dior Couture told Business of Fashion, announcing a new era for one of the industry's behemoth brands. 'Jonathan Anderson is going to be the head of creation for Dior—across men's and women's, couture and accessories.' It's a poetic full-circle moment. For the first time in decades, Dior's artistic vision will be steered by a single creative force, as it once was in the days of Monsieur Dior himself. The announcement is also not entirely surprising, as Jonathan had already been appointed Creative Director of Dior men's collections earlier this year, and his name has been on the lips of every industry insider since Maria Grazia Chiuri announced her departure on Thursday. 'Over the last 11 years that he has been at LVMH, we've often spoken about what could come next,' said Delphine. 'There was always one brand he was drawn to. And now, we believe this is his moment.' Anderson, now 40, brings more than youth. He brings duality — the artisan and the futurist, the romantic and the realist. With an eye trained in meticulous craftsmanship and a mind unafraid to disrupt, he arrives with plenty of energy to take on one of fashion's biggest beasts. 'He has a very clear vision for the brand,' says Arnault. 'He's completely energised by the challenge.' The Northern Irish designer certainly has the meteoric rise to suggest he's up to the task at hand. One of the most daring talents of his generation, Jonathan launched his own menswear brand straight out of London College of Fashion in 2008. In 2013, he succeeded Christopher Kane at Versace's Versus, and shortly after was appointed creative director of Spanish luxury label Loewe. The rest, as they say, was history. In the 11 years at the helm, Jonathan's influence was transformative. Perhaps one of LVMH's greatest coup, Jonathan turned sales of approximately €230 million in 2014 according to Morgan Stanley, to between €1.5 billion and €2 billion in 2024, according to Bernstein analyst Luca Solca. Whether it was an evening gown or a tank top, Jonathan's touch was golden—a talent that we expect to shine even brighter as he accepts the keys to the house of Dior, with the maison's full manpower and métiers d'art at his fingertips. Knowing Jonathan's clean and contemporary aesthetic, we predict he will start with a sketch and simple dream, poised to put together Dior's new design DNA one stitch at a time.
