High Jewelry's Vision of the Future (It's Not Necessarily Gem Laden)

PARIS — Traditionally, the luxury houses that make one-of-a-kind, multimillion-dollar haute joaillerie pieces for the world’s wealthiest women have not been known for taking risks But times and clients have changed, and with those shifts has come a greater necessity for brands to merge age-old craftsmanship techniques and the heritage of their storied pasts with bold and experimental visions for today, and the future. Pleasingly — and somewhat unexpectedly — several of the brands that unveiled collections during couture this week managed to do just that. Take Boucheron, which this season continued its 160th anniversary celebrations by unveiling the results of its technical innovation In particular, its Eternal Flowers rings, were the standouts of a new and unapologetically dazzling Nature Triomphante collection.

These nine hyper-realistic rings, which took three years of research and development to create, have quite literally frozen nature in time Using state-of-the-art scientific techniques, petals of live flowers such . Source