
Dior Joaillerie
31 December
Dior are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Dior Joaillerie with two new joyfully colourful collections, Gem Dior and Rose Dior Pop. The pieces nod to the past with familiar design references, but this year’s bold colours and whimsical architectures is wholly new. For creative director Victoire de Castellane, the jewellery’s history is significant: ‘Each of my collections leads to the next and I adore the idea of going even further. I hate being bored.’ Her achievements in telling the stories of the Maison – she cites Christian Dior’s garden at Milly-la-Forêt, the eccentric grand balls and the couture as vital elements to her design – are intertwined with her own personal experiences. ‘The themes which inspire my collections are just a starting point. When I create, I am still five years old. I like to approach creation as children approach a game, with an open mind and with the freedom that childhood offers.’
Writer: Hannah Silver

Tessa Packard
20 December
At Wallpaper* HQ, we get a plethora of holiday-themed post through our doors. But nothing has provoked more festive joy than jeweller Tessa Packard’s yuletide regards, which arrived in the form of a soft pink-toned card with punch out ‘Merry Christmas’ earrings. We’ll be donning these merry messaged-designs all festive season through, and might just wear them in the new year too.
Photography: Aylin Bayhan. Writer: Laura Hawkins

Hirsh London
19 December
There’s nothing like a glittering snowflake to brighten up December days. For the last 15 years, Hirsh London has created an annual Snowflake pendant design to mark the festive season, weaving dazzling gems into intricate, hypnotising patterns of precious geometry. ‘We always begin with the central gemstone in the same way that snowflakes are first formed with a central ice crystal,’ explains Jason Hirsh, creative director. The gem-specialist’s yearly Snowflake is a unique piece, as complex and rare as any snowflake in both construction and design. As it takes hundreds of ice crystals to form one snowflake, so dozens of gemstones make up the pendant’s symmetrical design. ‘As in nature, we pride ourselves on creating unique forms: no two designs are ever the same,’ says Hirsh. This year, however, the brand has broken with its own tradition, designing two unique pieces: the first is delicately hued – a natural fancy-blue diamond surrounded with rare pink diamonds, while the second is a wheel of diamond spikes punctuated with a central flash of emerald. In the spirit of seasonal nostalgia, we’ve homed in on the Hirsh family archive and picked out this 2006 design, its brittle snow crystals replaced by tightly interlocking diamonds in a tantalisingly mesmeric variety of cuts.
Writer: Hannah Silver

Caralarga
13 December
Textile design workshop Caralarga’s focus on simplicity has resulted in a pared-back approach to design, and it is the craftsmanship rather than the materials which are at the heart of clothes and jewels. The company’s artisans, adept at working with natural materials such as fibres from the sansevieria plant and recycled bull horn, here manipulate raw cotton threads. In their hands, the material originally discarded after errors in production become intricate textured jewels in their own right.
Writer: Hannah Silver

Peruffo
11 December
Italian jewellery brand Peruffo is inspired by Vicenza’s thriving gold industry for its fluid jewels. Rings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings are free-flowing and unconstructed; designed to move with the body, they are fun to wear. The Slide collection combines the rigidity of the shapes with the central spiral of the design, and the end results are mini kinetic sculptures that take on a life of their own.
Writer: Hannah Silver

Arman Sarkisyan
6 December
In the fifteen years since he created his eponymous jewellery brand, Arman Sarkisyan’s style has become well-defined. The Armenian-born designer, now based in LA, favours a Byzantine aesthetic and tends to incorporate a wealth of bright and precious materials, from gold to colourful gems, for rich results. It is the hypnotising deep blue of lapis lazuli taking centre stage in these Starry Night earrings, which takes on a tantalising new edge when framed with oxidised silver.
Writer: Hannah Silver