Colourful inspiration

Colour is a key trend in luxury jewellers' latest collections, with the use of yellow gold and diamonds emerging as a dominant influence.

'Colours have been more pivotal in fashion in recent years with gold playing a crucial part,' according to Italian jeweller Bulgari. 'Yellow gold is the perfect metal for warm tones, as well as coloured precious stones or diamonds.'

Its latest Astrale collection features necklaces, rings and earrings in 18-carat yellow gold with coloured gemstones and pave diamonds. The collection plays on the combination of circular motifs with the end design elegant and innovative. 'Customers today look for designs that are of top quality and distinguished design,' Bulgari says. 'The Astrale collection represents the best of both.'

Tiffany & Co has launched a new collection featuring rare fancy yellow diamonds, with the company's own stonecutters tailoring the Tiffany Diamond's cushion cut to maximise the stones' natural colour in a modern setting.

The Tiffany Bezet, a contoured ring design based on the traditional bezel setting, features hand-set yellow diamonds of pear, heart, oval and cushion shapes in 18-carat gold.

In another collection, Elsa Peretti's designs for Tiffany & Co, there is the launch of a pear-shaped yellow diamond pendant in platinum or 18-carat yellow gold.

The sourcing of yellow diamonds at Tiffany & Co has become so important that the jeweller has entered into an exclusive agreement with Gem Diamonds' Ellendale mine in Western Australia, giving the New York jeweller exclusive rights to the renowned mine's production of fancy yellow diamonds over its full economic life.