Louis Vuitton celebrates its new Maison Louis Vuitton
Vendôme with three new sets of high jewelry.
Louis Vuitton has marked the opening of its glittering new
flagship store on Paris’ Place Vendôme with the unveiling of three new high
jewelry sets, each of which showcase the heritage house’s talent for spotting
exceptional gemstones.
A 6.29-carat emerald extracted from the Muzo mines in
Colombia takes a starring role in one necklace. The grass-green, inclusion-free
stone is presented among the clean, graphic lines of white diamonds that riff
on Louis Vuitton’s monogram flower and V motifs.
In another, the star is an enormous 20.08-carat spinel—a
favorite Louis Vuitton gem that was once prized by the Mughals, together with
the ruby, above all others.
A 6.29-carat emerald from Colombia’s Muzo mine, part of the
brand’s Conquêtes collection
Photo:
Courtesy Louis Vuitton
The new jewels are the latest in the Conquêtes collection,
which the Maison first debuted during Paris Couture Week in July.
And that’s not all. Clients are invited to take a private
elevator straight up to the eaves of the Peter Marino–designed building to the
house’s new high jewelry workshops. There, overlooking the Place Vendôme—which
has long been the world center of haute joaillerie—they will find Louis
Vuitton’s craftspeople hard at work, painstakingly creating their one-of-a-kind
orders entirely by hand.
Top floor of the new Place Vendôme boutique Photo: Courtesy Louis Vuitton
Spread over five floors, the Maison takes the visitor on a
voyage throughout Louis Vuitton’s métiers—from the luxurious trunks for which
Louis Vuitton first made his name in the late 19th century and the fourth-floor
Atelier Rare and Exceptional, where clients and celebrities can have their
gowns fitted and adjusted by in-house artisans, to the fifth-floor space paying
homage to the house’s past and the craftsmanship and expertise that will ensure
its future.
Jewels on the ground floor of the new Place Vendôme
boutique Photo: Courtesy Louis Vuitton
Women’s clothing and shoes on the ground floor of the new
store, portrait of a young Louis Vuitton by Yan Pei-Ming Photo: Courtesy Louis Vuitton
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