A YEAR IN COUTURE Tiffany’s chief artistic officer on channelling the four seasons for its Blue Book line
Tifany’s new, naturally elegant Bleu Book collection
‘My starting point was the four seasons, but reimagined for the modern age,’ says Tiffany’s chief artistic officer Reed Krakoff
of his first high-jewellery line for Blue Book (Tiffany’s annual couture range, named after the blue cover of its first look book, designed by Charles Lewis Tiffany in 1845). The result is a set of uniquely precious, hand-crafted
pieces inspired by the natural world, including a dazzling platinum and diamond necklace resembling shards of wintry ice, a brooch of delicate pink and white diamond freesias and an angular chain cuff with dozens of tiny glittering butterflies fluttering across its golden surface. Combining organic and geometric shapes, the ethereal with the industrial, Krakoff ’s couture collection deliberately eschews traditional formality and feels entirely fresh. ‘It’s couture for the millennial age,’ he explains. With versions of some of the designs being incorporated into other core lines launching next year, this all-new Blue Book is already sowing the seeds of Tiffany collections to come.
kim parker