To mark the close of another exceptional year in High Jewellery, the Katerina Perez team has come together to select the pieces that left the deepest impression on us. Each member has chosen a single design and shared their reflections on what set it apart for them. In some cases, that connection lies in a remarkable stone or an inventive setting. In others, it’s about how a jewel captures the spirit of an entire collection or signals a meaningful shift in the way High Jewellery is being designed today.

The selections that follow reflect six very different points of view from across the KP team. You may recognise a personal favourite among them or have a standout design of your own from 2025. Either way, we hope you enjoy our selections ahead of Couture Week in Paris this January, when a new season of High Jewellery designs will be revealed.

Katerina – Carte Blanche Impermanence Composition No.4

Boucheron’s Carte Blanche Impermanence collection was revealed in July 2025, and as always, Creative Director Claire Choisne had a surprise up her sleeve: the whole botanical collection was created in black and white. Katerina knew immediately that her choice would come from this collection – for its audacity and for the entirely new way in which the jewels were presented as "compositions". Each of the compositions, from n°6 – the lightest – to Composition n°1 – the darkest, is an embodiment of how nature is gradually vanishing. ⁣

“Everything about the collection is exquisitely thought through. Composition N°4 is, in fact, four separate jewels – the Cyclamen transformable brooch-bracelet, the Oat hair jewel, the Caterpillar brooch and the Butterfly hair jewel – brought together in a snow-set diamond ‘vase’. It could only be the product of Claire Choisne’s imagination and reflects her vision of pieces designed to exist in dialogue with one another, blurring the boundaries between adornment, object and installation. Inspired by the natural world and the idea of transience, the collection replaces colour with nuance, allowing texture, movement and light to take centre stage.”

Aleksandra – Lydia Courteille Think Pink Leopard Earrings

Launched in July 2025, Lydia Courteille’s Think Pink High Jewellery collection is a vividly imagined world in which animals are reinterpreted through an intensely saturated, surreal lens, as if seen through a pair of magical pink sunglasses. Each creature is rendered in Lydia’s signature leopard print and composed of pink sapphires, black diamonds and pink spinels. Her Think Pink universe includes elephants, rabbits, snakes and her now-iconic frog – one of the designer’s most recognisable and beloved motifs – alongside project manager Aleksandra Baidina’s favourite piece of 2025: the Leopard earrings.

“I’ve always been drawn to black diamonds in jewellery, and here they work beautifully alongside pink, one of my favourite colours. I’ve always loved animal motifs, and Lydia Courteille has such a unique way of bringing them to life with a playful irreverence that gives each creature its own personality. This collection is so pink – almost too much, right on the edge – which is precisely what makes it so appealing.”

Daiga – Bvlgari Polychroma Magnus Emerald necklace

Katerina’s personal assistant Daiga Gurelli chose the Magnus Emerald necklace from Bvlgari’s no expense-spared Polychroma High Jewellery collection, which made its public debut on the Met Gala red carpet, worn by Priyanka Chopra. The emerald’s vivid green stood out even more against her monochrome polka-dot styling, marking one of 2025’s most memorable High Jewellery moments.

“What drew me to the Magnus Emerald necklace was the colour and sheer scale of this mesmerising stone. At 241.06 carats, it is the largest emerald Bvlgari has ever set. The fact that it originates from Colombia makes it even more personal for me: it’s a bucket-list destination, the source of my favourite emeralds and the home of my favourite reggaeton artist, Maluma, who has also been championing emeralds on the red carpet recently. For me, this necklace is pure emotion – a celebration of love, beauty, fun and the rhythm and energy of reggaeton music.”

Olga – Anna Hu Winter Solstice: Total Blessing Butterfly Brooch

Every year, Anna Hu, whose surname means "butterfly" in Chinese, creates high jewellery pieces featuring these delicate winged creatures to commemorate each year of the brand's existence. During Paris Haute Couture Week in July 2025, she presented 21 creations reflecting two core themes that have been central to her house's philosophy since its founding in 2007: nature and Chinese culture.

Content manager Olga Ghuseva selected a beautiful brooch with multi-coloured wings for her favourite High Jewellery creation in 2025: “In my opinion, the most striking Anna Hu piece this year was the symbolic Winter Solstice: Total Blessing butterfly brooch, crafted from titanium, adorned with hand-painted enamel wings and set with brilliant-cut diamonds. The centrepiece of the composition is a 5.34 carat vibrant blue-green tourmaline, which serves as the support for the ethereal, sculptural form.”

Claire – Louis Vuitton Virtuosity Monumental Necklace

Contributing writer Claire Roberts opted for a collar necklace from Louis Vuitton’s Virtuosity collection. “I could have chosen almost any piece from the collection, but I ultimately selected the Monumental collar. Designed for a modern-day warrior woman, there is something distinctly Cleopatra-like about its form, which moves away from the traditional High Jewellery formula of a necklace built around a single dominant stone.” 

“Despite being composed of a mosaic of 320 different stones, the design feels remarkably wearable, and I’ve always gravitated towards cabochons over faceted stones. Perhaps subconsciously, my choice is also tied to the fact that Virtuosity was Francesca Amfitheatrof’s final High Jewellery collection for Louis Vuitton – a creative partnership whose conclusion was one of the biggest shocks of the year.”

Joshua – Gucci x Pomellato Monili Necklace

Premiered during the Gucci Cruise 2026 show in Florence, Monili was the most unexpected High Jewellery collaboration of the year. Reimagining leather accessories as precious objects, it brought together Gucci and Pomellato – both part of the Kering group yet rarely spoken about in the same breath. The project proposed a new language for High Jewellery, combining Gucci’s leatherwork with Pomellato’s expertise in goldsmithing and gem-setting.

Contributing writer Joshua Hendren chose the Monili necklace as his favourite High Jewellery creation of 2025: “What draws me to this necklace is the mix of materials you don’t usually see in High Jewellery. The leatherwork from Gucci makes it feel wearable, even relaxed, while Pomellato’s goldsmithing keeps it ultra-glamorous. That contrast is what makes it so beautiful.”

From experimental monochrome to supersized stones, conceptual storytelling to boundary-pushing collaborations, the team’s selections offer a snapshot of High Jewellery in 2025 at its most expressive and wide-ranging. Above all, they reflect the connections that make High Jewellery so compelling, and so individual to each member of the team.