Florals Aren't Just For Fabrics, As This Dazzling Jewellery Exhibition At Sotheby's Shows

Remember a season when florals didn't appear on the runway? Although one colour largely dominates new collections - this spring/summer that would be beige - invariably following closely behind is a new crop of flowers; peach roses blossomed at Louis Vuitton against metallic backgrounds and clashing-coloured blowsy blooms showered the Dolce & Gabbana runway in Milan New season floral stories in both fashion and jewellery are as reliable as spring itself Today a group of new contemporary and antique floral jewels, including out of season buds flourishing due to the jeweller's art, are previewing at Sotheby's curated by myself, in advance of their New York show In Bloom.

Over the years with Vogue I've arranged countless floral shoots, regularly dotted fresh jewelled sprigs on pages, reported on breathtaking botanical collections and even written about my attempts at mimicking floral jewelled colours in my own garden I picked this subject for my book, Floral Jewels, from the world's leading designers and my only regret when it was published was that there was no accompanying exhibition Advertisement Lydia Courteille's fluorescent candy-pink phosphosiderite and yellow tourmaline orchid and the soft golden down on Buccellati's mid-century thistle, both featured in the book, will be displayed alongside Van Cleef & Arpel's camellia and a golden Cartier rose, "Florist" for the voguish women of the 19th century, with an exquisite floral Tiffany & Co.

watch brooch coveted in its day by jazz-age flappers For the first time floral pieces by Dolce & Gabbana, usually reserved for the eyes of private clients, will be on display fizzing with zesty-fresh green and white citrus flowers on emerald waxy leaves atop life-size lemon earrings, set with 1,297 yellow sapphires. . Source