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Blackpink’s Lisa was pretty in pink and a Y2K-inflected updo, accessorised with jewellery including tiny lotus flower hair embellishments, at the premiere of The White Lotus season three in Bangkok last year. Photo: EPA-EFE
Celebrity style

The high jewellery putting diamonds in your hair

Dior, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels – along with independent jewellers like Jessica McCormack – are turning diamonds into dazzling hair ornaments.

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Style Edit: Fred jewellery shines with a timeless elegance that’s 90 years young

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Style Edit: The legacy behind Buccellati’s handcrafted jewellery – interview

Luxury brands

Boucheron, Cartier and Bulgari: the most exquisite high jewellery rings this season

Maisons focus on the fine artistry of rings in 2026, showcasing stellar craftsmanship, technical innovation and unique brand identities.

Boucheron 2026 Carte Blanche high jewellery Flower ring. Photo: Handout
Jewellery

High jewellery season dazzles with rare gems, storytelling and elite access

From Marrakech to the Riviera, the season saw the world’s biggest maisons unveil singular creations, vivid colour and symbolic motifs.

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Style Edit: Richard Mille’s RM HJ-02 redefines high jewellery and haute horlogerie

The 12 bejewelled models in the collection are split into pink, violet, blue and green chapters, each a mosaic of gemstones in harmony with the technical watchmaking.

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Style Edit: Stenzhorn’s poetic jewels, from Parisian petals to sailor’s knots

Available exclusively in Hong Kong at Masterpiece by King Fook, the German maison’s award-winning pieces blend technical mastery with whimsical, flexible designs.

A Stenzhorn necklace from the À Fleur de Paris collection. Photo: Handout
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Style Edit: Messika evokes Botswana’s raw beauty with Terres de Contrastes high jewellery collection

Founder and creative director Valérie Messika showcases the region’s defining landscapes with vivid green, blue, yellow and crimson centrepiece gems.

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Style Edit: Boucheron’s Carte Blanche 2026 collection, Human Being

Titled Human Being, the line’s 5 suites – Rain, Flower, Light, Tattoo and Checkers – celebrate aspects of imagination, creativity and emotion.

Fame and celebrity

Chanel, Cartier and a vintage Chevy: inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding raffle

Avril Lavigne and Jackie Tranquill were among winners of the luxury giveaways, while rehearsal dinner guests received diamond-set champagne flutes.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce reportedly gave the A-list attendees various luxury gifts at their wedding. Photos: @jackietranquill/Instagram; AP Photo
Timepieces

Bangle watches are back

Cartier’s Baignoire, Gucci’s Play, Chanel’s Première Galon and Bulgari’s Serpenti are joined by Van Cleef & Arpels’ Perlée Toi & Moi and Tiffany & Co.’s HardWear.

Chanel Première Galon. Photo: Handout
Haute Couture

Paris Haute Couture Week 2026: Chanel and Armani Privé for fall/winter

Matthieu Blazy built a storybook world for his second couture show, while Silvana Armani embraced liquid silhouettes for fall/winter.

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Style Edit: Pomellato’s Stile Libero collection flaunts Milanese elegance

The Italian brand’s latest high jewellery collection celebrates Milan’s goldsmithing artistry through tactile designs and a rainbow of coloured gems.

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Style Edit: Mythica, a Louis Vuitton journey of gems and legends in Marrakech

The high jewellery collection celebrates the modern woman’s quest for daring designs and is fronted by role models like Phoebe Dynevor, Alicia Vikander, Victoria Song and Shin Min-a.

The Victory pendant and necklace on display at Louis Vuitton’s high jewellery presentation of Mythica in the deserts of Marrakech. Photo: Handout
Crime

Millions in Lalique jewellery stolen in daring French museum raid

Local mayor hits out at ‘major failure’ of security company after break-in by masked gang.

Jewellery by French glassmaker Rene Lalique on display at the Lalique Museum. A masked gang broke into the museum early Sunday, stealing crystal jewellery. Photo: AFP
Jewellery

How Asian designers are redefining high jewellery craft globally

The region’s home-grown designers, like Singapore’s Simone Ng, are using fresh narratives, cultural heritage and technical innovation to shine.

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Style Edit: Chanel Signes & Symboles’ star-studded launch in Hong Kong

Laufey, Kim Go-eun and Park Seo-jun were among the stars to gather for an evening of glittering creativity, craftsmanship and music at The Repulse Bay.

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Timepieces

The revival of stone dials in luxury watches

Pushing artistry and innovation, luxury brands and independent watchmakers are bringing back stone dials using opal, pietersite and lapis lazuli.

Piaget Polo 79 with sodalite dial. Photo: Handout
Jewellery

Hong Kong jewellers present modern takes on the classic torque

Bold, sculptural torque jewellery is enjoying a revival – minimalist, versatile and redefining modern luxury with timeless wearability.

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Style Edit: Cartier’s Le Chœur des Pierres is led by these showpiece necklaces

Pieces including the Tutti Kanya, Tellura, Haryma and Panthère Kentia were shown at a Saint-Tropez chateau alongside art by Damien Hirst, Yves Klein and Anselm Kiefer.

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Style Edit: Chanel’s Imprimé Lion necklace leads its new high jewellery line

The brand’s favourite motifs – the camellia, lion, star and sun – are revisited in 85 spectacular creations.

Adding the central sapphire to the Chanel Imprimé Lion necklace, one of the key pieces of Chanel’s Signes & Symboles high jewellery collection. Photo: Handout
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Style Edit: Chow Tai Fook’s Chinese Couture high jewellery collection

Creative director of high jewellery Nicholas Lieou introduces a range inspired by the traditional elements of Chinese dressmaking.

A necklace from the Jade Ombre chapter of Chow Tai Fook’s Chinese Couture high jewellery collection. Photo: Handout
Jewellery

How jeweller Huimin Zhang is reimagining traditional Chinese filigree

The Beijing-born artist’s intricate brooches will be featured in an exhibition opening on June 23 at Hong Kong’s Crafts on Peel.

Jewellery

Why brooches are the jewellery trend taking over red carpets

The ‘bro brooch’ swept awards season and the fall/winter 2026 runways – and Pinterest data confirms searches for brooch styling are surging.

China’s private sector

Natural diamond firms turn to blockchain traceability amid lab-grown competition

The Gemological Institute of America is set to acquire a stake in Tracr, which has developed a blockchain platform to trace diamond origin.

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A collection of rough and polished diamonds. Photo: Handout
Jewellery

Van Cleef & Arpels’ latest high jewellery collection is a tribute to Egypt

With nods to Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Cher, the maison channels Egyptian iconography into rare gems and signature mystery-set designs.

The Van Cleef & Arpels Fascinating Egypt high jewellery collection pays homage to Egypt. Photo: Handout
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Style shoot: Chanel’s shimmering high jewellery collection Signes & Symboles

The opulent collection is inspired by some of the brand’s most famous icons, including the sun, star, lion and camellia.

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Style Edit: Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book 2026 explores the natural world

Victoria Reynolds, chief gemologist at Tiffany & Co. since 2019, on the collection’s sense of discovery and her pride in opening doors for women to reach positions like hers in the industry.

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