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Wednesday, 11 December 2013

PIAGET Rose High-Jewellery Collection

In 2012 for the occasion of the 30th birthday of the Yves Piaget Rose which was named in 1982, the House of Piaget presented the Piaget Rose high-jewellery collection.

"For Piaget, the rose is the symbol of a passion - that of Yves Piaget, and that of the designers and jeweller craftsmen it inspires. Through their talent, some 100 creations have bloomed in Piaget's rose garden.

The rose is a talisman, a message of eternity and renewed love that pulsates daily. A generous, joyous icon mirroring the rose of which it is the muse: the Yves Piaget Rose."

During my last stay in September for the Paris Fashion Week, I had the great pleasure to visit the PIAGET Boutique 16, Place Vendôme in Paris, to get some more wonderful insights of the Piaget's high-jewellery collections and an interview with Alexandra Dubois, responsable for Presse, PR & Digital of PIAGET. I discovered the new Limelight Gala watch collection composed of six different types of watches which was presented for the 1st time in January 2013 at the SIHH Salon International de la Horlogerie in Geneva, and available only since September 2013 in Piaget-stores worldwide.

Limelight Gala - 38mm 18K gold watch.

Case set with 62 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 2.8 cts).

Dial paved with 336 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 1.7 cts),

pink gold indexes. With satin strap with ardillon buckle set with

15 brilliant-cut diamonds (approx. 0.1 cts).

Piaget 690P quartz movement

Château de Malmaison - Piaget As A Patron Of Arts

The House of Piaget became the patron of the project to restore the "former" Joséphine de Beauharnais's rose garden, Château de Malmaison, Swiss watchmaker and jeweller Piaget is contributing to bringing one of the most beautiful testimonials to the love of roses back to life. The rose has a history that Piaget is committed to preserving. By becoming a patron of the project. The re-inauguration of this wonderful rose garden will be presented with an wonderful event the upcoming March 2014, organized by the House of Piaget, and accompanied with the presentation of two new large high-jewellery collections by Piaget.

Piaget is making a contribution to the restoration of the castle’s former rose garden to its original splendour by sponsoring the renovation project spearheaded by the Musée National de Malmaison, in preparation for the bicentennial of the death of the Empress in 2014. The woman whom Napoleon renamed Joséphine had, from birth, a predilection for roses thanks to her given name, Rose. The collection that she brought together at Malmaison became, just like the Piaget Rose jewellery collection, one of the most beautiful and enviable collections in all of Europe, thanks to the diversity of some 250 varieties it contained in 1814. The Malmaison Museum will bring this collection to life again, and at the end of the reconstruction, it will present 750 rose bushes from the First to the Second Empire, enhancing our knowledge of the botanical work of the Empress.

Some historical backgrounds ...

The Empress Joséphine, a woman above all others incarnates the passion for roses. For her refined taste, and as leader of fashion, roses are an essential presence. In her gardens, her salons, even on her clothing and in her hair, which she adorned with fresh flowers, roses were part of her daily life. But Joséphine’s interest went beyond coquettish fashion. She was a woman ahead of her time, a woman who had an inexhaustible curiosity and a desire to preserve and to share. She hired botanists and sent them out over the world in quest of species of roses that did not exist on the continent.

She gave Redouté, the water colour painter, a mandate to catalogue very precisely the varieties that she gathered together in the palace gardens. The rose garden she assembled is a veritable conservatory of roses. The works of Redouté, along with this exceptional garden itself, have lent an essential contribution to our knowledge of roses.

Château de Malmaison which is located some fifteen kilometres from Paris was acquired by Napoleon and Joséphine Bonaparte in 1799. The future empress was to give this domain the special character that still accounts for its charm today. From 1800 to 1802, under the Consulate, this little palace became, along with the Tuileries, the seat of the government of France.

Joséphine never tired in her efforts to make the "Imperial Palace of Malmaison" and especially its park, a place of wonder. To the very great variety of plants in her garden, she unstintingly added the company of exotic animals: black swans, ostriches, zebras, and antelopes. The Emperor divorced the Empress for reasons of state in 1809 and gave her the domain of Malmaison, which remained Joséphine’s favourite residence until her death in 1814.

The Château de Malmaison then passed into private hands, and was gifted to the French State by a generous donor in 1904. Today it belongs to the Musées Nationaux Français.

Last June 13, during the inauguration of the 1st Piaget Rose Day which will become an annual event in Piaget-stores worldwide, Piaget Boutique Place Vendôme welcomed 50 brand enthusiasts for a unique experience in collaboration with the famous French website MyLittleParis. With a staff to cater to their needs, access to try on their favorite Piaget jewelry, polaroids and rosé champagne, the lucky guests spent a memorable day in honor of the Yves Piaget rose.

Please, take some beautiful insights on the Piaget Rose Collection ...! LoL, Andrea

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Photos: Courtesy of The House of Piaget & ANDREA JANKE

More PIAGET To Love ...

'The New PIAGET Limelight Gala Collection'

'The new Limelight Gala Watch collection which was presented for the first time in January 2013 at the SIHH Salon International de la Horlogerie in Geneva and in stores since September, draws a wealth of inspiration from this fascinating period and establishes itself as the new Piaget icon.'

'Winter Garden' by DIOR Haute Joaillerie

Until November 16th, 2013, the stunning fine jewelry collections by Victoire de Castellane can be seen at Place Vendôme in a paper setting conceived by the Wanda artists.

Ivy twists around the stairwell of the Dior Joaillerie boutique on Paris' Place Vendôme. It wraps around the handrail, climbs the balustrades. Or falls in a cascade from the ceiling light like a living chandelier in a romantic grotto. Butterflies take refuge there. A little further on bees hide among the leaves, looking out on rhododendrons, wisteria, lily-of-the-valley, roses and daisies. This world, entirely in paper, can be found in the Dior boutique until November 16th, in tandem with the arrival of the haute joaillerie collection designed by Victoire de Castellane.

Here, the Wanda artist collective, already having been given carte blanche to reinterpret the Lady Dior bag as part of the Lady Dior As Seen By traveling exhibition, created Monsieur Dior's winter garden in which bloom the small, delicate flowers he liked to row on his Milly-la-Forêt property. Seen against these paper monochromes, the colorful jewels and precious stones twinkle with a million fiery flickers.

DIOR JOAILLERIE - PARIS - VENDÔME

Paper setting until November 16th, 2013
8, Place Vendôme
75001 Paris

During my visit in Paris last month for the Fashion Week, I had an amazing interview with Maison PIAGET Place Vendôme boutique which will be posted soon. Today, surfing through my archives, I found these pictures which I took the same day, when I felt immediately in love with these wonderful DIOR Haute Joaillerie windows, presenting their jewelry collection in such beautiful decorated Gobelin-weaved tapestries of 19th-Century inspired animal gardens! LoL, Andrea

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'Winter Garden': Courtesy of The House of DIOR

All other pictures: Courtesy of ANDREA JANKE

More DIOR To Love ...

DIOR 'Golden Winter' 2013 MakeUp Collection'

'Versailles, on Christmas Eve. A jewel of aesthetic perfection, and showcase steeped in history, this most luxurious of castles defies time and trends. Its refined panelling and French-style gardens that so fascinated Christian Dior have now inspired a dazzling make-up collection by Tyen, Creator of Coulors for DIOR.'

Love of Travel by Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2012/13 Collection by Marc Jacobs

It’s so hard to find a porter when you need one these days, don’t you find? Well, not if you’d traveled on the 10:00 Louis Vuitton express to the Louvre. A real vintage locomotive rolled into the “station,” pulling a carriage of behatted young ladies, attired as if they might have started their journey circa 1912. As they alighted on the “platform,” each was met by her own smartly liveried porter a multiple bag-carrying presence haughtily ignored by the traveler he was serving.

If Marc Jacobs has been watching Downton Abbey, we wouldn’t be at all surprised. The mise-en-scène, with its pre-World War I aristocratic theme, held up a double-sided mirror to the Louis Vuitton enterprise, simultaneously reflecting the past of the company (when travelers really did commission suites of handmade trunks for their long, slow journeys by train and ocean liner), and its present as a luxury success in a time when new classes of the super-rich are also piling up their own sets of LV trophy purchases in the instant-communication age. A triple layer of significance (or is that quadruple?) is provided by the fact that, in another wing of the Louvre, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, a massive exhibition in which Louis Vuitton’s luggage heritage, and Marc Jacobs’s contribution to the marque through his ready-to-wear runway inspirations, are melded.

'Love of Travel' Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2012/13 Ad-Campaign

Shot by Steven Meisel, this is the first Louis Vuitton campaign ever to evoke so exactly the ambiance of the fashion show. Unprecedented levels of know-how and attention to detail were deployed to create a compelling restatement of the romance of travel, true to the heritage of Louis Vuitton.

Exactly how mightily successful that dynamic must be can be gauged by pulling back and imagining what it took to source, repaint, and create a functioning faux-railroad so that several tons of a steam-engine could appear to chug into a tent in a courtyard of the Louvre. It ratchets up the level of this season’s experiential fashion happenings to another level of amazing. Only compare the spectacle to the nineties, when it was thought wondrous when the fashion crowd was asked to a Paris station to see John Galliano’s Apache girls arrive at an actual Paris gare via locomotive. Now, the loco and the station are taken to the audience, all for a half-hour fashion display.

But what of the clothes, you cry? Well, though Jacobs’s serious-looking young ladies of entitlement may at first glance seem heir to a TV-series pre-WWI wardrobe, it’s really only a matter of the elongated, ankle-grazing, A-line silhouettes, and the tall, deep-brimmed, expression-concealing hats, each sprouting an eccentric medallion of fur, with a puff of feather, on the side. Break these looks down, and you have a myriad of jackets, often in glittery fabrics, with oversize jeweled buttons, severe, sleeveless A-line coats, square-necked Empire waist dresses in Lurex, each of which doesn’t need to look in the slightest vintage-y in a modern girl’s wardrobe. Funnily enough, Jacobs’s Louis Vuitton for fall happens to bear a direct resemblance to Prada’s. Now that two forces of the overground avant-garde are thinking along the same lines, that’s a trend with potential forward-motion. Au revoir. And over to you.