How We Dress Our Adornments

With technological advancements enabling transformations of unprecedented scales and heights, how have our ways of adornment changed? Here is a retrospective investigation into why we accessorise the way we do.

- Charmaine Tan

Often the most awe-inspiring jewellery are the ones that look and move the least like the materials they are made of; when the craftsmanship is so skilful and seamless, an expert eye is required to unveil all its open secrets to laymen like us. Boucheron's most recent high jewellery collection, titled Untamed Nature, gives one such memorable masterclass. Its spotlight on the most unassuming flora and fauna is a marriage of its wonderful archive and Claire Choisne’s way of making the impossibly hard curl and furl like real vines, pliable and natural in that state of grace.

However, it is one thing to perfect the imperfections of nature into stone, but another to place them on a body and make them behave like nature.