Lalaounis Has Reissued Jackie Kennedy's Iconic Apollo Earrings

Welcome to the Holy Grails of Jewelry, Editor-in-Chief Stellene Volandes's regular dispatch on iconic pieces and the most fascinating jewelers working today There has been a Greek jewelry boom in recent years with outstanding work from a new generation including Nikos Koulis, Theodoros Savopoulos, Eugenie Niarchos, Elena Votsi, and Ileana Makri, and Lito, but Lalaounis remains King, a fact all of the above names would likely agree on One of the jewelry questions I get asked the most, aside from what should I get my wife for Christmas, is how did this obsession start in the first place? It began at Lalaounis.

I tell this story to the Lalaounis sisters, now treasured friends, almost every time I see them, whether in Athens at the store or the Lalaounis Museum or at jewelry trade shows around the world I certainly mentioned it when I saw that they had reimagined the Apollo earrings their father had custome made for Aristotle Onassis to give to Jackie in 1969 to commemorate the moon landing The Apollo earrings are clearly visible and her hair is loose and maybe even a bit wet.

Will the new Lalaounis Apollo earrings, now with diamonds studded into the gold instead of the original rubies, become a part of my own jewelry legend? Working on it. . Source