Vogue UK - March 2020

Jewellery, price

on request, Tiffany.

Linen/cashmere

sweater, £940, Dior.

Hair: Martin Cullen.

Make-up: Laura

Dominique. Nails:

Pebbles Aikens. Digital

artwork: IMGN Studio.

Model: Celina Ralph

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implicity is the ultimate sophistication is a tenet that

has long defined creativity at Tiffany. And now, for

the new decade, comes the elegant, seemingly simple

yet meticulously engineered T1 collection.

Launching this April with a small selection of rings and

bracelets – the choker is set to follow in autumn – the

collection was inspired by a distinctive, early 1980s T motif

that Reed Krakoff, Tiffany’s chief artistic officer, found in

the company’s archive. It offers a fresh take on the clean,

square lines of the brand’s last T collection – which, in little

more than five years, became as instantly recognisable as the

robin’s-egg blue of the New York jeweller’s packaging.

The not-quite-meeting two end Ts of a half-decade ago

have been reimagined for now as one continuous circle

punctuated by a single T, in multifaceted gold with diamonds.

“There is a straightforwardness to it, but there is also a strength

and a boldness,” says Krakoff. “It’s undeniably Tiffany.”

The choker, set with more than 240 baguette and brilliant

custom-cut diamonds, is T1’s hero piece. Its uncomplicated

form belies the year that master craftsmen in New York devoted

to its design and creation; the end result is an apparently

seamless, sparkling surface that conceals tiny articulated gold

sections. “It fits the contours of the neck perfectly,” explains

Krakoff. Simplicity at its finest is never straightforward. n

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