Style Edit: New Clash de Cartier pieces reveal the maison’s ingenuity when it comes to blending elegant style with a punk aesthetic

Mar 24 , 2025

A model wears pieces from the Clash de Cartier collection featuring the rare gemstone chrysoprase. Photo: Handout

Capturing the duality for which the Clash de Cartier collection is known, its new creations feature amplified volume, oversized studs – and some even have all-diamond clous de Paris

It takes a certain sort of styling genius to yoke opposites, contrasts, points of difference – even clashes – and pull it off excellently.

It’s an approach that’s long been embodied by Cartier. After all, this is the most classic and storied of Parisian maisons, one with a mastery of high jewellery stretching back nearly two centuries and a client list liberally studded with celebrities and royalty. But the famous French house is also a master of innovation, always committed to driving the art and craft of jewellery to the next level.

A model sports rings and bracelets from the Clash de Cartier collection. Photo: Handout

This fascinating duality is directly reflected in the aptly named Clash de Cartier collection. Introduced in 2019, the collection presents a tough, uncompromising, rugged appearance, but combines it with the familiar sense of graceful fluidity that fans of the brand have come to know and love.

Clash de Cartier was recently updated with a stunning clutch of new pieces that perfectly display its assertive style, aggressively proportioned volumes and a selection of self-confident studs making those pieces game-changing additions to any wardrobe.

A model wears Clash de Cartier cufflinks in rose gold. Photo: Handout

Most striking of all among the new pieces are the XL versions of the rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets, which adopt a particularly fierce profile. In pink gold, they come adorned with a generous covering of pink gold studs and beads that make an outsized visual impact.

The Clash de Cartier ring and single earring, both featuring chrysoprase. Photo: Handout

Proving that Cartier is a master of delicacy as much as assertiveness, however, the flexible versions of the items within the collection emphasise the flowing, supple and endlessly wearable qualities of its jewellery. Nonetheless, they’re still covered with beads and studs, including the distinctive, pointed clous carrés, in a process that takes almost 50 hours of painstaking hand assembly. Available in pink gold, white gold or fully paved with diamonds, with each face of the clous carrés set with a diamond, the items include bracelets and necklaces, some long enough to be wrapped around the neck twice.

The Clash de Cartier long necklace and the flexible small model, in pink gold 750/1000. Photo: Handout

Blending a head-turning punk aesthetic with a flowing elegance, every one of the new pieces in the Clash de Cartier collection presents a captivating paradox and a dramatic study in contrast.