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Boucheron

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Boucheron

宝诗龙

The latest news on Boucheron, luxury jewellery and watch house, including fashion news and updates.

Chairman / President

Philippe Boucheron

CEO / Managing Director

Didier Laurens

CFO / Finance Director

Didier Laurens

Industry

Fashion & Beauty

Website

boucheron.com

Headquarters address

Paris, France

Year founded

1858

Boucheron’s Untamed Nature, creative director Claire Choisne’s latest Histoire de Style collection, celebrates the beauty and variety of plants and insects. Photo: Handout

Style Edit

Style Edit: Claire Choisne’s Untamed Nature collection for Boucheron

The maison’s latest high jewellery collection is inspired by its founder Frédéric Boucheron’s love of nature as well as the forms of plants like lingonberry, thistle and fuchsia.

24 Feb 2025 - 10:00AM

Special Report - Jewellery

High jewellery collections find inspiration in whimsical childhood themes

3 Feb 2025 - 4:00PM

High Jewellery

Why geometric jewellery has always been timeless, as Chaumet and Chopard show

18 Dec 2024 - 5:00AM

High Jewellery

Inspired by the everyday: jewellery that makes the functional fantastic

Nadine Ghosn’s Crayon bracelets are kooky fun while Chanel went for a sautoir/earphone mash-up and Cartier strung a watch onto a blinged-up carabiner

27 Oct 2024 - 6:00AM

Boucheron and other jewellery brands have long played with the idea of making jewellery out of more everyday objects. Photos: Handout

Style Edit

Style Edit: Technology forms the core of Boucheron’s Quatre 5D Memory ring

The French jewellery house has a special something embedded in its Quatre 5D Memory – a recollection of a childhood by the ocean, in the form of audio data.

22 Oct 2024 - 4:11PM

Style Edit

Style Edit: Celebrating 20 years of Boucheron’s Quatre ring

New plays on the Boucheron Quatre Classique ring mark the anniversary, through necklaces, bracelets, a belt and a hair jewel.

30 Sep 2024 - 10:00AM

High Jewellery

4 jewellery highlights of August – from Chanel to Chaumet

Chanel’s Première watch is also a necklace, with a microphone and earphones to take and make phone calls or listen to music

31 Aug 2024 - 2:00PM

Chanel recruited Lily-Rose Depp to bring an extra glamour to its latest high jewellery launch, while Boucheron, Chaumet and Mellerio also had dazzling new offerings. Photos: Handouts

Luxury brands

6 luxury gifts for loved ones, from jewellery to colourful collectible homeware

Louis Vuitton and Boucheron bring the bling, but there’s also bold modern homeware from Ottolenghi x Serax and Marimekko, plus a necklace from Chantal Shafie that holds Nomad caviar

19 Mar 2024 - 10:30AM

Lunar New Year

Dragon bling: red jewellery trends just in time for Lunar New Year

Van Cleef & Arpels, Bottega Veneta and Boucheron are among those releasing bold new collections that happily connect with Asian demand for the lucky colour as we welcome the Chinese Year of the Dragon

6 Feb 2024 - 4:00PM

Special Report - Jewellery

Maximum impact: how bold, colourful high jewellery is brightening the season

From sea anemones to the four seasons to the birth of planet Earth, the natural world is providing inspiration for maximalist jewellery pieces, with Boucheron and Piaget joining the trend

4 Jan 2024 - 5:00PM

Boucheron’s More is More collection. Photos: Handout

Special Report - Jewellery

High jewellery in 2024: the trends, products and predictions you should know

In a word, elegance – from classy pearls by Van Cleef & Arpels and Annoushka Ducas, to maximalist Tiffany & Co. and Boucheron cuffs, and glamorous Harry Winston and Chaumet cocktail rings

1 Jan 2024 - 3:00PM

Van Cleef & Arpels Le Grand Tour collection, Dea Eterna Clip

Special Report - Jewellery

Divas to disco: how retro culture is driving today’s high jewellery designs

Boucheron cites the 80s Rubik’s Cube and New Wave, Stephen Webster channels New Romantic pop, Tiffany & Co. and Piaget are inspired by 70s disco, while Chanel looks back to its 30s Jazz Age collection

28 Dec 2023 - 4:00PM

Special Report - Jewellery

Is modular jewellery the future of fashion? 2023’s best detachable pieces

This year Chanel, Boucheron, Chaumet and De Beers all unveiled ingenious detachable pieces that prove once and for all that luxury and versatility can go hand in hand

27 Dec 2023 - 4:00PM

Special Report - Jewellery

All choked up: how neck jewellery evolved, from ancient Egypt to Kendall Jenner

Spring/summer 2024 sees chokers everywhere – from Christian Dior to Vivienne Westwood – on models including Kendall Jenner, with neck jewellery also increasingly being worn by men

26 Dec 2023 - 4:00PM

From Princess Diana to Kendall Jenner, chokers and neck jewellery have endured to this day, with a history dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Vikings, through Anne Boleyn to Princess Diana and the fashion runways and high streets of the 21st century. Photos: Getty

Celebrity style

Heads up: how hair jewellery took the spotlight thanks to A-list fans

The 2023 Academy Awards set the tone with Michelle Yeoh, Florence Pugh and Janelle Monáe all dazzling with their ‘dos’ as well as their dresses – ever since A-listers have been donning bands, bows and clips on the red carpet

16 Oct 2023 - 4:00PM

These flower clips date from the 1950s when they were worn on jacket lapels. Today, 70 years on, they are being repurposed as hair jewellery, part of widening trend. Photo: Boucheron

High Jewellery

Inside Boucheron’s fun Carte Blanche, More is More high jewellery collection

Boucheron’s artistic director sets out to bring joy to Paris’ Place Vendôme, the city’s home of high jewellery, with her 2023 collection Carte Blanche, More is More – here’s a peek at the pieces

1 Aug 2023 - 10:34AM

High Jewellery

Ties that bind: untangling the twisted history of knots in high jewellery

Chanel, Dior and many other jewellery brands play with the symbolism of knots, finding creative ways to craft them in gold, diamonds and other precious stones

30 May 2023 - 2:00PM

Royalty

Inside King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s coronation high jewellery

The coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla is shining a spotlight on British jewellers as Boodles, Yoko London and more luxury brands create tiaras inspired by the grand event

8 May 2023 - 1:21PM

Britain’s King Charles wearing the Imperial State Crown, carrying the Sovereign’s Orb and Sceptre, leaves Westminster Abbey after the Coronation Ceremonies, in London, Britain, on May 6. Photo: Reuters

High Jewellery

The most exciting high jewellery news for April 2023, from LV to Chaumet

From Louis Vuitton’s second Spirit collection and Boucheron’s Queen Elizabeth-inspired 18-piece line, to K-pop idol Cha Eun-woo’s campaign for Chaumet

6 Apr 2023 - 9:00AM

Fame and celebrity

10 most expensive royal jewellery pieces, ranked

Some of the world’s most expensive jewels are owned by its royal families … find out which royal female has the most precious piece

26 Feb 2023 - 5:00AM

High Jewellery

5 high jewellery pieces taking inspiration from animals in nature

These creative high jewellery pieces ape the beauty and power of the living world, from Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels to Chopard and Mikimoto

4 Feb 2023 - 10:00AM

High Jewellery

5 colourful opal pieces from Dior, Gucci and more high jewellery brands

Bracelets, brooches, necklaces and earrings from Dior, Gucci and other high jewellery brands show off the versatility of this enigmatic stone

2 Feb 2023 - 10:21AM

High Jewellery

5 biggest gold and diamond jewellery trends to know in 2023

The resurgence of lockets and lucky charms may be a sign of uncertain times, but diamonds and gold inevitably remain key to their appeal – so what else can we expect to go big in 2023?

15 Jan 2023 - 8:00AM

Jewellery 2022

Is 3D printing the next big thing in high jewellery?

As high jewellery designers flirt with 3D technology, there is a fear that it will infringe upon age-old techniques … here’s what you need to know

3 Jan 2023 - 5:48PM

Fashion

How high jewellery is becoming more sustainable and ethical

Waste not, want not: jewellery brands are responding with new alternatives as sustainability concerns grow, from Tiffany & Co.’s recycled gold to Boucheron’s asbestos-derived fillers

2 Jan 2023 - 4:00PM

Boucheron just unveiled its Jack de Boucheron Ultime line, which incorporates Cofalit, a material produced from – that’s right – asbestos. Photo: Boucheron

Fame and celebrity

Christine Chiu or Anna Shay: who wore the best jewellery in Bling Empire 3?

So much bling, our eyes hurt: how do crazy rich Asian frenemies Chiu and Shay’s diamonds and pearls stack up this season, and who flashed a jewellery piece worth over a million dollars?

20 Oct 2022 - 10:13AM

Celebrity style

Not just for royals: now celebrities rock tiaras on the red carpet too

Once exclusively the realm of queens and princesses, today these diadems are seen on everyone from Madonna and Blake Lively, to Anna Wintour and Vogue editor Hamish Bowles

7 Jun 2022 - 2:24PM

High Jewellery

How high jewellery brands are embracing gender-fluid collections

Riding the millennial and Gen Z trend, luxury brands have launched androgynous and genderless pieces that combine heritage craftsmanship with modern flair

26 May 2022 - 4:24PM

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