Gucci’s 2026 high-jewellery collection gives familiar house motifs a more sculptural scale. Flowers, ropes and the curves of the Horsebit become structures for richly coloured stones, with the technical work determining how each design sits and moves. Across Gucci Flora, Gucci Nodo, Everlasting G and Iconic Signatures, the collection explores different ways of carrying heritage into precious materials.
Flora offers the most direct connection to the house’s visual history. Vittorio Accornero created the floral design in 1966 for a silk scarf commissioned as a gift for Grace Kelly. In the new jewellery, poppies gain volume through titanium petals set with rubies and centred on rubellite tourmalines. Openwork construction allows light through the layered forms, preserving a sense of delicacy within their generous proportions.
The lily pieces take the same technical ambition into blue. Titanium supports petals covered with graduated pavé of sapphires and diamonds, moving from darker tones towards paler light. Orchids introduce another palette through white gold, diamonds and pink sapphires from Madagascar. A separate white orchid brooch uses a white titanium stem and a vivid yellow diamond at the centre.
Gucci Nodo turns to the flexibility of rope. Its necklaces and bracelets are designed as soft, fluid chains, with colour changing the mood of the underlying motif. One interpretation combines diamond-set ropes with aquamarine and emeralds; another uses black ruthenium and black diamonds around yellow sapphires. A further necklace pairs a 25.79-carat pear-shaped Santa Maria aquamarine with a cushion-cut Lagoon tourmaline, bringing blue and green into a particularly clear conversation.
The remaining families work with more recognisable symbols. Everlasting G stretches the house’s initial into elongated geometry, while Horsebit and Marina Chain develop the proportions of two established signatures. Their presence gives the collection a broader vocabulary than floral inspiration alone.
Carlijn Jacobs’ campaign photographs bring the jewels close to the face and body, contrasting their saturated colour with dark clothing and sharply defined silhouettes. Alongside Piotr Stoklosa’s workshop imagery, they connect the finished impression with the work beneath it: sculpting metal, developing colour and refining the small structures that support a jewel’s volume.
Featured image: Photography: Carlijn Jacobs / Art direction: Baron & Baron / Courtesy Gucci.
