The Chameleon ring and pendant is the first item celebrating Annoushka Ducas’s tenth anniversary of her brand. The piece features up to four interchangeable gems that fix ingeniously and securely. Exclusive to Harrods.
Jewellery with provenance at Bonhams' London Jewels sale today. Remarkable items include Vita Sackville-West's 1912 Cartier pendant with antique Indian carved emerald and carved rock crystal, and pieces from novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford's collection, gifted by her late husband.
Time, Nature, Love is Van Cleef and Arpels’ biggest ever European exhibition, with over 400 archive pieces being presented at the sumptuous Palazzo Reale in Milan. Until February 23.
Swarovski crystals and created gemstones have just cheekily joined the myriad natural gems in Harrods’ fine jewellery department. The line includes Stephen Webster’s new Bamboo collection in exclusive green spinel and rubies from Swarovski’s Penelope Cruz collaboration.
Christie’s November 19 London no-reserve handbag sale (proceeds to charity) features two super-rare Hermès white Himalaya crocodile Birkin bags, plus nine Fendi Baguettes, and pieces from Matisse’s granddaughter-in-law.
Known for emeralds and specially cut narrow baguette diamonds, angled to catch the light, Los Angeles jeweller Suzanne Kalan partners with Harrods’ signature green. Ring and earrings exclusive at her pop-up there.
Customised perfumes feature in Selfridges’ new extended fragrance hall, where Ormonde Jayne designer Linda Pilkington presents seven scents – from which you can choose the strength and bottle colour. Additionally, Emmanuelle Moeglin of Experimental Perfume helps identify your style – with six variants.
Hermès’ latest collection is titled Innovation, and its highlights include a silver snaffle chain with rose gold plating on a Pierre Hardy concave cuff and an all-black Arceau Ronde des Heures watch with mother-of-pearl moonphase and black spinels.
Dolce & Gabbana turns its London and Milan flagships into Sicilian Christmas markets (until January 2), and it features beautifully packaged collaborations with top producers of panettone and pasta, colourfully painted Smeg appliances and newly redesigned beauty items.
Among evening-lit Paris “landmarks", Van Cleef and Arpels launches new women’s watches dedicated to mythical couples, including the enamelled dial Pont des Amoureux with daytime scenes, and the mother-of-pearl marquetry Charms.
Leaders in English interior design, OKA announces an extraordinary partnership with renowned designer, artist and architect Ron Arad for The Invisible Collection, a line of hand-made collectors-edition chairs that pays homage to OKA’s eclectic ethos and Arad’s industrial style.
British watch brand Bremont just launched their limited-edition H-4 Hercules, inspired by Howard Hughes’s 1947 "Spruce Goose”, the largest prototype flying boat. The GMT watch's propeller-shaped rotor is inlaid with birchwood from the original plane.
