Rococo-core, the Jewellery Aesthetic Sweeping Fashion

Versailles' lush interiors represent an early iteration of 18th-century Rococo, an artistic movement characterised, primarily, by excess The creations of Joanne Burke, Georgia Kemball, and Alighieri - all labels that have cropped up and dominated the fashion landscape in the last few seasons - have come to represent a new breed of jewellery designer, whose intricate and mythical wax-cast gold pieces wouldn't look out of place in the ornate interiors of an 18th-century chateau or castello Like the Rococo goldsmiths who crafted elaborate gold-leafed interiors for the era's aristocracy, London-based jeweller Georgia Kemball weaves mythical narratives into her work.

Elsewhere, miniature orgies - perhaps a nod to the discrete bacchanalias of Rococo painting - find abstracted lovers entangled across a ring or an earring The cockles, conches, and snail shells that appear across bracelets and rings bring to mind Rococo's origins in rocaille - a method of decoration using carved seashells and pebbles The jeweller's collaboration with French designer Lemaire saw Burke cast elongated bronze drop earrings from wax sculptures of dried flowers.

The intricate and elaborate nature of this season's jewellery springs from a desire to bring meaning to the world around us: jewellery as narrative or symbol. . Source