It is the perfect match that creates the surprise in this month of September.
For the time of a collection for Zara baptized “Le Chant de la Terre”, the French designer rediscovered the couture charm of the costume jewelery that he sublimated at the start of his long career.
First alongside Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent and his muse Loulou de la Falaise, then Alber Elbaz during the Lanvin era where we remember as much the perfectly cut dresses of one as the Barbara-style necklaces Elijah Hutton.
Several years have passed since then and Alber Elbaz is also gone.
This bias could therefore surprise at first sight as Elie Top has moved away from this ephemeral world since 2014 to carve out a place for himself in the sun of Parisian jewellery.
However, even installed in his showroom on rue Saint-Honoré and recognized by his peers from Paris to New York, via Las Vegas and Beirut, he knew how to keep this love of generous volumes and beautiful stories fleshed out to excess. .
Everything that the sensational materials of costume jewelry have always allowed, when the stratospheric price of gold and diamonds necessarily constrains the unbridled imagination.
nature inspired
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Bee and flower Elie Top x Zara.
Zara / Photo press
So for Zara and its cleverly reworked new fashionable image, the designer forsakes a while his last precious bestiary, where crocodiles adorned with emeralds mingled with solar chameleons, to give free rein to his ode to the earth.
Either a set of cuffs, torques, brooches, rings or earrings cut to make the look unique.
Creativity surprising as much as the price, necessarily sweet.
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Eli Top.
Elie Top / Photo press
