In the Gothic-style interior of Castell de Bellver, in the salty breeze of Mallorca, Louis Vuitton presents Virtuosity, its new Haute Joaillerie collection. It is not a simple succession of brilliant pieces but a narrative divided into two acts: The World of Mastery and The World of Creativity. A journey through one hundred and ten unique pieces of jewellery as if they were chapters of an artistic manifesto.
The first world, The World of Mastery, unfolds as a lesson in architecture and obsession. It begins with Savoir, where a 30.56-carat triangular-cut Australian black opal, which converses with red and intense tones, appears to guard sacred knowledge. It is followed by Protection and Keeper, which adopt the forms of shields and watchful eyes, lines that radiate strength.
In Maestria and Monumental, ambition materialises with extreme precision: a necklace set with two thousand five hundred diamonds, two hundred and five of them custom-cut, and a Damier pattern reinterpreted in an elaborate structure, accentuated by a bold and modern Cuban chain in white and pink gold, fusing modernity with the traditional jewellery savoir-faire.
Apogée marks the pinnacle: a transformable necklace that reinterprets the Maison’s codes with articulated handles inlaid with diamonds that evoke the functional elegance of the Maison’s trunks, crowned with the Monogram LV star motif, and culminating in a D Flawless diamond (10.56-carat) cut in the shape of the LV Monogram star. These diamonds embrace a Brazilian pear-shaped emerald (30.75-carat).
It is Connection that brings this first act to a close with a necklace crafted from strands of diamonds and pearls (two thousand pavé diamonds, more than one hundred set diamonds, and one hundred and fourteen pearls), opening a door to something less tangible: invention and imagination. And it is at this point that the second act begins: The World of Creativity. Motion flows in waves from a 35.68-carat sapphire from Sri Lanka and diamonds; Florescence bursts with tourmalines, diamonds and white pearls bring the unprecedented and the unexpected to life.
The necklaces are available in two colour combinations: one in blue-green tones with twelve indicolite tourmalines from Brazil (173.04-carat) combined with star-cut LV Monogram diamonds and white pearls, and a pink version made with twenty rubellite tourmalines (164.34-carat), star-cut LV Monogram diamonds and grey pearls. In Joy, the stones seem to have forgotten the rules of colour, cut and shape, and in Aura, the LV Monogram flower is redefined, set with tourmaline in pinkish tones (48.06-carat).
This line also includes a watch and, for the first time, a belt that transforms into a brooch. And the climax comes with Eternal Sun: a necklace featuring twenty-seven round yellow diamonds totalling 46.13 carats, the sourcing of which took seven years. A line that radiates creative freedom and culminates this journey through the twelve themes encapsulated in two worlds. Each piece, each setting, each cut is conceived to push the limits of what is possible. Louis Vuitton, with Virtuosity, proposes an odyssey in which savoir-faire is not an end but a springboard towards a luminous freedom.
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