A decade of work, of challenges, of dreams to fulfill. “Who asked me to get into this mess,” Valérie Messika stated with a laugh to Magazine just a year ago, before her fashion show in Paris. For this tenth anniversary of her fine jewelry, the founder and creative soul of Messika has designed Midnight Sun, a line that symbolizes the beginning of a new era. Carla Bruni is the visible face that embodies all the energy and euphoria latent in the collection.
The model and singer revives with elegance and magnetism the decidedly subversive spirit of the seventies with yellow diamonds, magnetic sets and great color contrasts.
For Ultimate Party, Valérie Messika was inspired by two women who left their mark on the history of the seventies, Liza Minnelli and Diana Ross, and imagined contrasting duos with exceptionally colored diamonds. The result is a masterpiece in the form of a necklace made with a 20-carat pear-cut yellow diamond and a 9-carat cushion-cut diamond that evoke the masterful voices of both music stars. To top it off, the gold plastron with curved lines acts as a mirror and sublimates the refraction of light from the diamonds.
“There is something in the air of New York that makes sleeping a waste,” said Simone de Beauvoir. Valérie reaffirms this idea and illustrates it with the Fiery set, a bold and penetrating necklace that recreates flames of fire. The pear-cut diamonds are surrounded by a halo and a mirror-polished white gold background, a new feat for the house.
On the dance floor of Glitter Fever, the collection that embraces the frenetic atmosphere of the seventies clubs, the yellow diamond is king. And for the first time, Messika uses traditional jewelry's snow setting to illuminate 15 cushion-cut yellow diamonds ranging from 2 to 15 carats. Pieces where the geometric contours of the diamond jewelry contrast totally with the less structured diamond setting and the voluptuous curves of the cushion cut
