Gucci's new high jewellery collection brings the Garden of Eden to life
In Gucci's latest high jewellery collection, Alessandro Michele imagines an otherworldly garden of delights fashioned for private, intimate enjoyment.
For all of nature’s subtleties, much of it is wildly maximalist as well. Towering waterfalls, grand sunsets, and majestic beasts – these are some of the awe-inspiring symbols that Alessandro Michele taps on for Gucci’s new high jewellery collection, Hortus Deliciarum – Latin for Garden of Delights.
The collection contains 130 pieces of jewellery, divided into four chapters that each represent a different element of nature. In the animal kingdom section, roaring lion heads clasp verdant tsavorites, while a chapter inspired by natural landscapes recalls the drama of the Roaring Twenties with its fringed necklaces and chandelier earrings.
Yet for all the splendour of the collection, Michele opts to stage the campaign in a private garden akin to Eden itself – furthering his narrative that life’s pleasures, no matter how grand, are best savoured in private.
This story first appeared in the October 2021 issue of L'Officiel Singapore.
